I love using F#’s Record and Discriminated Union types, they work nicely with pattern matching inside your F# code and can often alleviate some of the ceremony involved around creating and using a complex object hierarchy. However, on the odd occasion whe[...]

A relational database is not only a source of content. It can also be used as a mine for domain information related to domain of an application that uses that database. The schema, if it is well maintained, will give you an overview of the problem domain.[...]

A relational database is not only a source of content. It can also be used as a mine for domain information related to domain of an application that uses that database. The schema, if it is well maintained, will give you an overview of the problem domain.[...]

In some settings you might need to access more of the language than available through reflection and System.Linq.Expressions. You might want to look into project Roslyn or NRefactory. These will let you access the C# parser. This can be useful in many set[...]

In some settings you might need to access more of the language than available through reflection and System.Linq.Expressions. You might want to look into project Roslyn or NRefactory. These will let you access the c# parser. This can be useful in many set[...]

This week I had pleasure of meeting Vagif Abilov on Tomas Petricek and I’s Advanced F# course at Skills Matter. Vagif mentioned a Ruby implementation of Conway’s Game of Life being squeezed into 140 characters for tweeting and how that might look in F#. H[...]

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.