In .NET Rocks episode 855, Jeff Fritz commented on ASP.NET Web API being somewhat confusing in terms of its intended use. I don’t tend to agree, but I thought I would address one point he made in particular: that Web API is perhaps just another form of repository. Web API is much more than a […]

Mondrian is one of those modern painters whose work everyone recognizes, even though few people will quote his name. He also happens to be one of my favorite artists – in spite of their simple geometric structure, I find his pieces strangely beautiful: “Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow”, from Wikipedia I have been hard at work on some pretty dry stuff lately, and needed a bit of a change of pace, and ended up spending a couple of hours coding a simple Mondrianizer in F#: give it a picture, and it w[...]

Big data is the buzzword de jour, and why not?  Companies like Google with huge server farms are doing amazing things leveraging huge amounts of data and processing power.  It’s all very sexy but these researchers get to pick and choose the data they work with.  They can maximize their research gains by pushing the [...]

I recently co-authored an article with Gael Fraiteur (creator of PostSharp) on how AOP frameworks such as PostSharp can be used to automate the implementation of common design patterns in .Net. The article is now available to view on the InfoQ website here. A more offline friendly PDF version is also available here and from [...]