Suppose you want to merge an assembly A (AssemblyA.dll) with another assembly B (AssemblyB.dll) with ILMerge into a merged assembly (Merged.dll), and everything works fine until the user of your merged assembly also references that AssemblyB.dll, at which point that user will get Ambiguous reference errors for any reference to types defined in assembly B, [...]

I gave a talk about our use of F# at last year’s CodeMesh event, and the recording is now up on Vimeo. Yan Cui — F# in Social Gaming from Erlang Solutions on Vimeo.   You can also find the slides for the talk up on SlideShare:   F# in social gaming from Yan Cui

One of the pitfalls with LINQ which I have fallen into on multiple occasions is around the use of the OfType<T> extension method with dictionaries. Either through carelessness or changes to the underlying variable (a class property being changed from list to dictionary for instance) I have ended up using OfType<…> on a dictionary which [...]

Kevin Montrose’s Jil JSON serializer has now been added to the JSON benchmark tests and the results are really impressive.   Kevin has also listed the tricks that he has employed to make Jil fast on the project page, which is well worth a read.

If you have done any DevOps work on Amazon Web Services (AWS) then you should be familiar with Amazon CloudWatch, a service for tracking and viewing metrics (CPU, network in/out, etc.) about the various AWS services that you consume, or better still, custom metrics that you publish about your service. On top of that, you [...]