Earlier, I came across this Stack Overflow question. I solved it, tweeted it, but then thought it would serve as a useful case study into the mental processes I go through when trying to solve a problem - whether that's on Stack Overflow, at work, or at h[...]

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The command is called ‘ReSharper_EnableDaemon’. Open keyboard section in the options dialog in visual studio and search for the command to see what shortcuts it is bound to.

Last week, I gave a talk on asynchronous programming in F# at QCon London. I used the one hour slot to implement a Social Rectangle Drawing App - an application that showed the importance of asynchronous workflows on both client-side and server-side.

In this edition we are going to be doing a taste test, C# vs F#. Oh yeah, if you quickly glanced at the title you may have thought this

In this edition we are going to be doing a taste test, C# vs F#. Oh yeah, if you quickly glanced at the title you may have thought this was a recipe for black scones, as interesting and tasty as that may be, unfortunately its going to be finance related.[...]

It’s possible to open several projects in the vs2010 express edition. This means that it can be a viable alternative to monodevelop for doing .net programming at home. Exciting news!

At a few points in my career I’ve worked in tech support.  It’s an experience I heartily recommend to every developer.  Every developer should spend at least a month or two supporting software because it helps you to understand the sorts of issues our tec[...]

Make sure that the environment variable LANG is set to “us_EN.UTF-8”. Otherwise you might get the translated versions…

Make sure that the environment variable LANG is set to “us_EN.UTF-8”. Otherwise you might get the translated versions…