I found out about Google CodeJam the other day, and looking at their info page, there’s a number of interesting problems you can solve as practice for the real thing coming up, and here are my F# solutions to the qualification round questions from the 2010 event, enjoy   Problem A. Store Credit The outline [...]

I often think of why I feel that it’s important to have a functional language—not just write code that’s pseudo-functional in an imperative language.  As I think this through, I wanted to record some of my ideas on the subject. Even the best developers I’ve known are almost always inclined to take the defaults.  I [...]

Again, I’d like to thank Igal Tabachnik and SharpCrafters for inviting me to do the webinar, the recording of the session is now available on their Vimeo channel. Pseudo Real Time Performance Monitoring with AOP and AWS CloudWatch from SharpCrafters on Vimeo.   Performance Monitoring with AOP and Amazon CloudWatch View more PowerPoint from Yan [...]

To find the answer to this question I put together a very simple test, but before we go into it.. Disclaimer: this test and its result should be taken at face value only, it is intended to illustrate that posting messages to an agent is super lightweight, but in a real world application there will [...]