Coffeescript has been heralded as a way to avoid some of the nastiness of JavaScript. Now Anders Hejlsberg introduces a new addition to the story: TypeScript. I read this from a pal that linked to a blog post. The geist of the post is a slight positive no[...]

Coffeescript has been heralded as a way to avoid some of the nastiness of javascript. Now Anders Hejlsberg introduces a new addition to the story: Typescript. I read this from a pal that linked to a blog post. The geist of the post is a slight positive no[...]

This weekend, I was writing some demo code for the async chapter of C# in Depth - the idea was to decompile a simple asynchronous method and see what happened. I received quite a surprise during this, in a way which had nothing to do with asynchrony. Giv[...]

Gestern habe ich schon den ersten Teil meiner Notizen hier auf dem Blog veröffentlicht. Jetzt geht es weiter mit Teil 2. Scrum Microsoft hat den internen Prozess auf Scrum umgestellt und ich finde das merkt man wirklich. Es sind zwar nur zwei Tage Konfere[...]

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 wurde vorgestern released und so trifft es sich das gerade jetzt die NavTechDays 2012 in Antwerpen stattfinden. Hier meine Notizen nach fast einem Tag Konferenz. Allgemeines Das NAV Menü ist bekanntermaßen sehr umfangreich -> N[...]

A fascinating slide deck of financial programming wizardry by Daniel Egloff of Quantlea at the NVIDIA Global Technology Conference, 2012, showing the real-world power of F# as a tool when applied in the GPGPU programming space: Title:  New Generation GPU [...]

In order to simplify the access of the FSharpx type providers I separated them into their own nuget packages. From now on we have: FSharpx.TypeProviders.AppSettings which generates setters and getters for application settings files. [Read more] FSharpx.Ty[...]

This year I had the privilege of attending and speaking at the Strangeloop conference in St Louis. The venues, the Union Street Marriot (a National Historic Landmark), and the Peabody Opera House were spectacular. The range of sessions and speakers wa[...]