Tenerife Skunkworks

I want to buy a sailboat

Some of you folks seem are confused and think I'm all over the place. Let me explain...

I'm a freelancing software developer. I make a living consulting and use the proceeds to develop software products of my own.

Trading bits

I will be resurrecting AlgoKit, my supreme trading platform, just as soon as I finish the iPhone app that I just started. It will be a Mac application, obviously.

Please hang on for a couple of weeks!

This blog is soon no more!

My Typepad subscription has expired and I don't plan to renew it. I will either point wagerlabs.com to a new tumblelog or my Tiny Code blog. The latter is where the action is at.

No more OpenPoker, no more Erlang. I'm sorry folks but it's time to move on!

Looking for hardware not supported by Mac OSX

Do you have a USB, FireWire or SATA device that you want to use with Mac OSX but can't? Does it have Linux drivers?

I'm looking for hardware not supported by Mac OSX. Please let me know the make and model so that I can get in touch with the manufacturer!

Everything you wanted to know about writing Mac OSX drivers but were afraid to ask

Here's how you write a Mac OSX USB driver to implement SCSI pass-through with full matching source code. Enjoy and let me know if you need a Mac OSX device driver written!

Mac OSX Driver Development Job Trends

Don't know what to make of the mid-2008 crash but the growth since last July is astonishing!

I'm going West, where performance matters!

I lament the passing of the good times in Erlang consulting.

Erlang is going mainstream, there's a wealth of information available and people are realizing that it's easy to pick up, without the need for expensive consulting.

OLPC for marine applications

I would like to pick up an OLPC on the really cheap to try to set it up as a replacement for a chart plotter.

Do you have a fully working OLPC in good condition that's gathering dust in your closet? Let me know!

I suck

I seem to be particularly good at picking very narrow, most likely unprofitable niches. A translator from a particular trading language to another product with a much smaller user base is one example, writing Mac OSX device drivers is another one.

Optimizing Erlang: A death match of arrays and tuples

This is the first in my series of posts on optimizing Erlang. I plan to tackle optimizing Mnesia, profiling and scalability.

You need to use arrays of up to 10,000 elements. Erlang offers you tuples as well as fixed-size and extensible pseudo-arrays. What is the fastest option?

Let us start the death match by pitting arrays against tuples in a death match. Trees were an option before the array module became available, so lets throw in trees just for laughs.