Thanks to Scott Hanselman, I’m now writing this post with Windows Live Writer 2012.  For all of its miscues over the last couple of years, every now and again, Microsoft comes up with some modest piece of software which really hits it out of the park.  Li[...]

Note: Don’t forget to check out Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers. Following on from my previous test, I have now included JsonFx and as well as the Json.Net BSON serializer in the mix to see how they match up. The [...]

I'm getting fairly frequent questions - mostly on Twitter - about whether there's going to be a third edition of C# in Depth. I figure it's worth answering it once in some detail rather than repeatedly in 140 characters ;) I'm currently writing a couple [...]

Last month, I mentioned that I would be giving a talk about using CFML & Clojure together in Melbourne and Sydney in August. Those user groups have posted details of the talk now, so here are the links as promised: MAD! Melbourne Adobe Developers, Tuesda[...]

Did you know you can use F# type providers to access thousands of statistical packages from R, with auto-complete and documentation? Those of you into data analysis will be aware of the use of the R system by statisticians and other data workers. The F# c[...]

"...things such as functions and methods look essentially the same, but they derive from very different ideas. A method reflects a behavior expected in the domain, and a function reflects a unit of execution in the machine. A message and a function call m[...]

Silverlight 5 brings native window and P/Invoke support for Silverlight desktop apps (elevated trust out-of-browser applications). The Silverlight Window class contains a subset of the properties and methods provided by in the equivalent WPF Window class.[...]

Yesterday I spent hours trying to figure out why a checkbox did not get checked (visually). When debugging the knockout code, it was clear that the DOM elements got checked. They did not update visually until another checkbox got checked. I tried other me[...]