Currently I’m trying to get a bit more JavaScript and HTML5 exposure (no use denying it I guess – it’s here to stay) and found the Paper.js framework which seems to be really nice. An easy way to test a … Continue reading →

If you ever worked with a larger XAML Project the entries in your resource dictionaries will start to pile up and it’s really a pain to find where you put some Brush or Style or whatever. Wouldn’t it be nice … Continue reading →

With F# 3.0 and Visual Studio 2011 comes Type Provider capability which is a significant new addition to F# (and indeed to any programming language). The essential idea is that metadata from external sources (SQL databases, Web Services, etc.) can be harn[...]

With F# 3.0 and Visual Studio 2011 comes Type Provider capability which is a significant new addition to F# (and indeed to any programming language). The essential idea is that metadata from external sources (SQL databases, Web Services, etc.) can be harn[...]

I found out about Google CodeJam the other day, and looking at their info page, there’s a number of interesting problems you can solve as practice for the real thing coming up, and here are my F# solutions to the qualification round questions from the 201[...]

I often think of why I feel that it’s important to have a functional language—not just write code that’s pseudo-functional in an imperative language.  As I think this through, I wanted to record some of my ideas on the subject. Even the best developers I’[...]

When I wrote my summary of the conference, I forgot something very important: you can download nearly all of the Clojure/West 2012 presentations from github. Some of the files are quite large so you may not be able to simply view the raw PDF on github - y[...]

Again, I’d like to thank Igal Tabachnik and SharpCrafters for inviting me to do the webinar, the recording of the session is now available on their Vimeo channel. Pseudo Real Time Performance Monitoring with AOP and AWS CloudWatch from SharpCrafters on Vi[...]