Early in my career I believed that Tech Writers were a interface role to Marketing and Sales. As a product focused developer, I didn’t understand the true value of Tech Writers beyond cleaning up content to make it customer friendly as in the places where[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Announcing .NET 7 Preview 3 – .NET Blog (microsoft.com) ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 3 – .NET Blog (microsoft.com) .NET MAUI Release Candidate – Ready for cross-platform app[...]

I’ve been keeping an eye on MAUI – the .NET Multi-platform App UI – for a while, but I’ve only recently actually given it a try. MAUI is essentially the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, embracing WinUI 3 and expanding from a mobile focus to desktop apps as wel[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News CPU Usage Tool Improvements – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com) New Git Credential Manager uses AvaloniaUI for it’s cross-platform UI! Videos and Slides .NET MAUI Community Standup –[...]

Say that you want to write a minimal API as seen in Can .net compete with NodeJS. How would you structure such an application? You would end up with something like 0-1 layers in your application. Some of my previous coworkers embrace these patterns in or[...]

Say that you want to write a minimal API as seen in Can .net compete with NodeJS. How would you structure such an application? You would end up with something like 0-1 layers in your application. Some of my previous coworkers embrace these patterns in or[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Introduction | Fast F# (fastfsharp.com) Get started with Azure Table Storage using F# | Microsoft Docs With 3 months left before IE retirement, new enhancements arrive in Microsoft Ed[...]

In conversations with people who are much smarter about education than am I, one idea that came up was this notion of foundational knowledge. To define “foundational knowledge” by analogy think of learning basic arithmetic. First you learn addition then s[...]

In part 1, we ended up with a lot of test data specified in a text file, but without working tests – and with a conundrum as to how we’d test the .NET Core 3.1 data which requires additional information about the “hidden” AdjustmentRule.BaseUtcOffsetDelta[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News .NET 5.0 will reach End of Support on May 08, 2022 – .NET Blog (microsoft.com) Suffer from Ctrl+S fatigue? We have a feature for you – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com) Go To Definit[...]