You might have heard that functional programming is based on Lambda Calculus – and indeed this is true (LISP was greatly influenced by Alonzo Church’s Lambda Calculus and you might have heard of “lambda”s in other functional languages as well) … Continue [...]

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Constraint Programming is a vast subject area in AI and Operations Research. Some well-known Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) are Sudoku, N-Queens, Map Coloring, Scheduling (of many kinds, e.g. classrooms-to-courses). In general, CSP are NP-hard but[...]

Constraint Programming is a vast subject area in AI and Operations Research. Some well-known Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) are Sudoku, N-Queens, Map Coloring, Scheduling (of many kinds, e.g. classrooms-to-courses). In general, CSP are NP-hard but[...]

Hello! Just a quick note to mention that I will be speaking about Aspect Oriented Programming at next Saturday’s DDD10 in Reading, some great sessions in the line up this year, hope to see you there

If I walk into my garage now and open up a toolbox, whats inside? Here’s a quick selection: Ball-peen hammer Jointer plane 1/2 inch mortise chisel Soldering iron Set square Low angle block plane Torx screw drivers Hack saw Monkey wrench Pipe cutter [...]

A popup is a window without a standard border that pops up above other controls to display contextual information like a tooltip, context menu or validation error. Silverlight’s browser heritage means it’s built-in popups may appear clipped inside their p[...]

C# 5 allows you to obtain the method or property of the caller to a method using the CallerMemberName attribute under System.Runtime.CompilerServices in .Net 4.5:using System.ComponentModel; using System.Runtime.CompilerServices; public class ObservableO[...]