All 'functional' related blog posts
Monads For The Masses
The third in a series of three, introducing Functional Programming concepts.
25 June 2017
Curry On Regardless
The second in a series of posts introducing Functional Programming concepts. This post looks at the closely related concepts of Currying and Partial Application
14 June 2017
Over-Thunking It
With the increasing adoption of functional programming there are strange terms slowly moving their way from academic obscurity to mainstream software engineering. Thanks mainly to the React and Redux frameworks,...
9 June 2017
Functional Coding in Java - Gateway Drug or End of Line
In this guest post, Tom Prior reviews a Java Functional Programming talk given by Instiller Garth at a recent event in Cork.
18 April 2017
Java Shark Jump Redux
Opinion piece on why Java 8's attempt to jump the shark is just that
6 June 2014
Java Jumps the Shark
Java 8 attempts to 'jump the shark' with the introduction of streams, lambdas and 'FP'
4 June 2014
An Intro To Option(al)
Introduction to the Option, Optional and Maybe Types in Scala, Java and C#