The next F# New York City Meetup is now scheduled... Microsoft Offices, 6th floor, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, between 51st and 52nd Streets, New York, NY (map) Tomas Petricek on F# applications - From Domain Model to User Interface Wednesday, April 25,[...]

In this post we are going back to the primitive. No it’s not about the same named song by Soulfly, (which incidentally does contains F# notes) but a return to thread synchronisation primitives and their asynchronous counterparts. We are going to be look[...]

In this post we are going back to the primitive. No it’s not about the same named song by Soulfly, (which incidenta

Last year, my wonderful peers in Microsoft Research developed the first versions of TouchDevelop, a touch-based programming environment. You can now find out all about TouchDevelop at the one big URL: www.touchdevelop.com and follow them on Twitter at @to[...]

Slightly off topic... The "debugging options" got turned on in my browser recently. I think this happened when I was debugging some web code in Visual Studio. From this, it's been interesting to see how regularly my web browsing experience is now interrup[...]

Most of the developers have dealt with calling SQL server stored procedures from their applications at least once or twice. In my last project, where intense data mining is done on the SQL side, this is basically all I am doing. There is always a desire t[...]

Upcoming Speaking Engagements: I’m very excited to be giving the Keynote at the first Great Lakes Functional Programming Conference, I’d suggest signing up but it’s already sold out! I’ve spent a ton of time over the last few months helping put together t[...]

World Singles is looking for a smart, motivated developer to join our small, fully distributed team of engineers, working on our multi-lingual, multi-tenant Internet dating platform. We're after someone with strong data management skills who can help us m[...]

To some readers, the title of this post may induce nightmarish recollections of late-night debugging sessions. To others it may be simply the epitome of jargon. Just to break the jargon down a bit: Type initializer: the code executed to initialize the[...]