Todd Schiller

Human ✘ Artificial Intelligence

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  • Making Wrong Code... Wrong

    Dec 08, 2014 Joel Spolsky has a popular post from 2005 on "Making Wrong Code Look Wrong". In this post, I'll address his suggestion to use Hungarian Notation. It turns out we can now do better: we can make...

  • Enforcing Memory Allocation Patterns with an Effect System

    Nov 23, 2014 Writing performant Java software often means controlling allocation patterns to prevent garbage collection. For example, a program for processing financial FIX messages in real-time might use a...

  • Improving Unit Testing with Data Provenance

    Dec 29, 2013 In an ideal world, each unit test would run in isolation. In practice, environment setup (e.g., database schema setup) is expensive, so it's common to share resources between tests. In the worst...

  • Financial DSL Resources

    Jun 10, 2013 I've been creating an annotated collection of financial domain-specific language papers, talks, and webpages on the DSLFIN workshop resources page. Since it's become a bit unwieldy, I'll be...

  • Financial DSL Workshop at MODELS 2013

    May 21, 2013 Information about the Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages for Financial Systems (DSLFIN).