Richard Wild

Richard has been programming for his living since 1998, but he has loved the craft ever since teaching himself assembly language as a teenager on the family computer.He apprenticed for many years grinding data on Oracle databases, picking up C, Java, C# and other languages along the way. At present he primarily programs in Java, but he is very interested in functional programming with Clojure.Richard was switched on to Software Craftsmanship by some excellent agile coaches who taught XP, and through the association of some inspiring Software Craftspeople he has been fortunate to work with. In addition to honing his craft, he loves mentoring and teaching others how to practice TDD and how to write clean pragmatic code.

Software Development
Richard WildDecember 14th, 2018
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The Functional Style – Part 9
Pragmatism In this series we’ve taken a whirlwind tour through the topics related to functional programming that I think are…
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Software Development
Richard WildDecember 5th, 2018
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The Functional Style – Part 8
Persistent data structures. We have discussed immutability at length by now. In particular, we have covered how loops can be…
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Software Development
Richard WildNovember 27th, 2018
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The Functional Style – Part 7
Lazy evaluation. To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in…
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Software Development
Richard WildNovember 4th, 2018
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The Functional Style – Part 6
Higher-order functions II: Currying. We previously saw in part 5 how you can use function composition to arrange your code…
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Software Development
Richard WildOctober 19th, 2018
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The Functional Style – Part 5
Higher-order functions I: Function composition and the Monad pattern. What is a higher-order function? In the previous article we saw…
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Software Development
Richard WildSeptember 21st, 2018
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The Functional Style – Part 4
First-Class Functions II: Filter, Reduce & more. In the previous article I introduced the concept of first-class functions and lambdas,…
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Software Development
Richard WildSeptember 5th, 2018
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The Functional Style – Part 3
First-Class Functions I: Lambda Functions & Map. What is a first-class function? You may well have heard it said before…
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Software Development
Richard WildAugust 20th, 2018
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The Functional Style – Part 2
First steps. In the previous article, we introduced functional programming from first principles. It was a lot of verbiage and…
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Software Development
Richard WildAugust 10th, 2018
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The Functional Style – Part 1
An introduction. Functional programming is a very hot topic nowadays. People are increasingly interested in functional and hybrid-functional languages such…
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