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.

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 was a recipe for black scones, as interesting and tasty as that may be, unfortunately its going to be finance related.[...]

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

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[...]