Real World Haskell

After a few weeks of silence, here is an update on our recent progress and current work.
We have spent the past few weeks editing chapters in response to the comments of our beta readers. Thanks to everyone who has provided feedback. We have now revised about three quarters of the book’s chapters, with the remainder [...]

(Update 2008-07-17: Everything is back up.)
The server that’s hosting the beta content is misbehaving mysteriously, and is currently down. When it comes back up, I’ll rescue a fresh backup of the comments from it and move the whole lot to a more stable host.

John and I will be in Portland, Oregon next week for OSCON. I’ll be giving a Haskell overview talk on Thursday at 17:20, but I’ll be around for a few days before and after.
Our co-author, Don, actually lives in Portland. If you are based in Portland or visiting OSCON, and you’d be interested in meeting [...]

I’m happy to announce that several booksellers now have Real World Haskell available for pre-order. Here are some handy links: Powell’s Books Borders Barnes and Noble Amazon And finally… that handsome cover (visible at Amazon) features a rhinoceros beetle.

We are in the final stages of getting this book ready for the production process at O’Reilly. We’re going through all the remaining feedback right now, and also getting the last few chapters ready to post. This is the last call for comments on all chapters posted to the beta site. Once we complete [...]

Summer reading season is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere, and we at Real World Haskell Global Headquarters are sensitive to the needs of our readers for some challenging entertainment. To keep your mind limber while your body relaxes at the beach, we present drafts of ten more chapters.

8. Typeclasses at work: making JSON easier [...]

Actually, Keith published the footage a while ago, but I forgot to post a link here. So here it is.
The talk went extremely well; thanks again to Alex Payne for hosting it and to Keith Fahlgren for setting it up. I spoke for 45 minutes, took questions for 15 with the camera still rolling, and [...]

Thanks to Kathleen Fisher and Peter Thiemann, the recorded sessions from last year’s Commercial Users of Functional Programming are now up in conveniently viewable form on Google Video. Xavier Leroy, Industrial uses of Caml: examples and lessons learned from the smart card industry, Part 1 and Part 2 John Launchbury, Cross-domain WebDAV server Cyril Schmidt and Anne-Elisabeth Tran [...]

We received a number of great submissions within hours of posting our request for suggestions for a library to develop bindings for in the FFI chapter. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
After looking over the alternatives, we’ve decided to use PCRE as the example. Even though there already exist useful bindings to PCRE, it’s still a [...]

Update 2008-05-12: We’ve decided to go with PCRE. Thanks for all of your suggestions!
We’re about to start on one of our last chapters, on using Haskell’s foreign function interface (FFI). We’re currently kicking around candidate C libraries that we can use as examples to write bindings for.
So far, we’ve thought about PCRE and sqlite: each [...]