Winning the APL Programming Contest – General Computing Category

#Dyalog’16 – Vibeke Ulmann Today we had the first of the 3 grand prize winner presentations. Joshua David is 19 years old and is in his second year studying Computer Science at the University of Scranton. He is also taking a minor in Philosophy – and he’s been an intern with Carlisle Group where the […]

The Calm before Stormwind – Tomas Gustafsson

#Dyalog16 – Vibeke Ulmann As announced earlier – and iterated many times by yours truly, to media and other interested parties, because it is SOOOOOOO exciting – this year, the Viking Challenge is to drive a speed boat in the Stormwind Simulator sitting in a 6DOF (6 degree of freedom) motion platform from Simotion in […]

The Story of a Summer Intern

by Suki Tekverk As a born and raised New Yorker, I thought I had seen it all, but two short weeks spent in Vancouver with Roger Hui and his family proved me very wrong! I went from being at the top of the totem pole to one of the most clueless people around. Luckily, these […]

It’s APL…but not as we know it!

by the Dyalog Duck As the party behind Dyalog’s Twitter account I often search our feed for #APL or just APL to see if anyone is talking about us or APL in general and I am frequently surprised by what pops up. We have often had a giggle in the office over some of the […]

Rencontres Dyalog APL 2016 – Paris, France

It is really good to see APL events come back to life! In April of 2014, we witnessed the re-birth of SWEDAPL, which had been dormant for some time – but now meets twice a year and is perhaps the most vibrant APL meeting on our circuit, with many young developers developing new products and […]

FinnAPL Forest Seminar 2016

Finns probably have better reasons to look forward to spring more than most of us: not only does it get much easier to keep that hole in the ice open, it is time for the annual FinnAPL Forest Seminar! This year, just under 20 of us gathered for two days (Thursday March 10th and Friday […]

Happy New Year from the CXO!

To all our existing users, business partners and friends we have not yet met: Happy New Year from everyone at Dyalog – we hope that we can be of service to you in the year(s) to come! But what – or who – is a CXO? Well, according to Wikipedia, a chief experience officer (CXO) is the […]

SWEDAPL Meeting in Malmö, November 11th 2015

The November cycle of APL User Meetings is kicking off; the SWEDAPL meeting in Malmö was first this year, holding a meeting at the top of the famous Turning Torso in Malmö. Since it was just a short trip from our Danish office, Dyalog was represented by Gitte Christensen, Bjørn Christensen and Morten Kromberg – […]

Over the Moon with Selenium

Over the years, I have become more and more reluctant to write code without good regression tests – 35 years of software development have taught me that it is just too dangerous! Regression testing of user interfaces has always been difficult, but for the last few weeks I have been working with technologies that put […]

Response to Name Colouring for Dfns

This post contains comments to John Scholes’ post on name colouring; please continue to post any further comments with the original post. This is a very interesting topic – as the discussion has already showed, there are many different needs. It seems to me that some of the suggestions that have been made are forms of highlighting […]