Tweet The other day I had a small task to inspect return values of methods and if the following property exists then set it to empty array.         public long[] Achievements { get; set; } This needed to happen once on every web request, and I decided to implement it as a PostSharp attribute. WHY

Tweet I recently gave a talk on the various use cases we have for F# at Gamesys Social at the Tokyo F# User Group during my trip there. The slides are available on Slideshare and I’ll share links to recording once they become available. F# at GameSys from Yan Cui Tweet

Tweet Having heard so much about APL from Phil Trelford (who is one of the leaders in the F# community) I decided to try it out too. For the uninitiated, APL code looks every bit as mind-bending and unbelievable as scenes from Johnny Depp’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. For example, the life function

Tweet This talk by Kyle Kingsbury (aka @aphyr on twitter) was my favourite at CraftConf, and gave us an update on the state of consistency with MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Aerospike.   Kyle opened the talk by talking about how we so often build applications on top of databases, queues, streams, etc. and that these systems

Tweet This talk by Richard Rodger (of nearForm) was my favourite at this year’s CodeMotion conference in Rome, where he talked about why we need to change the way we think about monitoring when it comes to measuring micro-services.   TL; DR Identify invariants in your system and use them to measure the health of