Grant Winney

Coding

Writing code. It's why I started this blog, and likely why you're here. If you're looking for answers or ideas, I've got some of each.

Taming the Erlang Beast

Taming the Erlang Beast

Becoming an Erlang developer has not always been easy, but over the last couple of years I've learned a few ways to tame the beast. It doesn't need to become any other language, but there's definitely room for improving the developer experience!

Concatenate Binaries and Strings in Erlang

Concatenating strings and binaries in Erlang can get ugly quick. Let's make it easier.

Creating Your First Chrome Extension

Creating Your First Chrome Extension

We all have our favorite web browser with our favorite extensions loaded, but have you ever considered writing your own? In the past few months I've created a couple extensions to suit my own needs. Here's what I've learned!

Evaluating a string of code in Erlang at runtime

Evaluating a string of code in Erlang at runtime

Did you know that Erlang has the ability to read in a string representing a line of code to execute at runtime? It can parse it out, evaluate it and return the value. Let's see how... Evaluating Simple Expressions At its most basic, we can just read any

Comparing Two Objects for Equality in C#

Comparing Two Objects for Equality in C#

It's common to compare two objects in C# for equality, such as for a save operation. Let's take a closer look at how we define what equal means.

Connecting an Analog Joystick to the Raspberry Pi

Connecting an Analog Joystick to the Raspberry Pi

One of the best things about the Raspberry Pi is its GPIO pins. They’re just sitting there, waiting to be connected to all kinds of interesting peripherals so your Pi can interact with the world around it. We can send alerts, attach sensors, and even plug cards like the

Creating a Flickering Candle Using an RGB LED on the Raspberry Pi

Creating a Flickering Candle Using an RGB LED on the Raspberry Pi

After getting PWM (pulse-width modulation) to work with an RGB LED last week, I was trying to think of what else I could do with an LED that demonstrated changes in color as well as intensity. I’m not sure why – maybe it was because we lost power in our