We have years worth of historical queue data in a Microsoft Sql database and the same tables that contain this historical data also keep track of pending or currently active work. Here's a highly simplified visual example. TypeSubtypeStatusParameters [...]

You may notice that I've changed my blog again. This time I've renounced Blogger completely in favor of Ghost. You may also notice that I have it running on Azure now which means that I actually have control of all the source code for the site. A major[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News If you want to suggest a new feature for the F# addin in Xamarin Studio, remember to add it to user voice. Visual F# Power Tools can show you unused open declarations. New F# meetup i[...]

In our MMORPG title Here Be Monsters, we offer the players a virtual world to explore where they can visit towns and spots; forage fruits and gather insects and flowers; tend to farms and animals in their homesteads; make in-game buddies and help each oth[...]

I don’t usually review hardware here, but I think this device stands out as being particularly useful to people who take a lot of notes and/or read a lot of research papers. I read about the Sony Digital Paper DPT-S1 for the first time about a year ago an[...]

As some of you have noticed (and let me know), my old blog hosting provider recently moved off Community Server to WordPress. I figured that as all the links we being broken anyway, now would be a good time to move off msmvps.com anyway. The old posts are[...]

I don’t usually review hardware here, but I think this device stands out as being particularly useful to people who take a lot of notes and/or read a lot of research papers. I read about the Sony Digital Paper DPT-S1 for the first time about a year ago an[...]

That’s the title of the presentation I’ll be giving at CloudDevelop 2014, on October 17th, in Columbus, Ohio. If you read my blog at all then you’re probably interested in where software development will be headed five years in the future. Two things I re[...]

UI.Next is available for experimentation as a public WebSharper.UI.Next NuGet package. You can build examples from source - just get WebSharper first. UI.Next addresses most shortcomings we felt WebSharper had for single-page JavaScript applications. The[...]

Today, Vladimir Makarov faced with quite interesting ‘bug’(very unexpected behavior) of FSI. The initial goal was quite simple – count number of NuGet packages, which have “ASP.NET” in title. As a result, there was created a script that perfectly works in[...]