I used to find projects with a few large files (1000+ loc) distasteful. Of late, I’m starting to find large numbers of nested folders and files distasteful. Is it just a case of “the grass is always greener?” I don’t think so. I use the VsVim plugin for V[...]

Like so many geeks I’m a massive XKCD fan. But I’m often troubled by questions like when will the 1000th XKCD appear, or the 1024th or even the 2000th? Even though the first two numbers are getting quite close now, it’s still more fingers and toes than I [...]

The iteratee is continuing to hang me up. I’m very close, but in the meantime, I’ll be focusing on convincing Scott Hanselman that he really should care about functional programming. (Note that I will not be attempting to convince him of the importance of[...]

It's just occurred to me that I've forgotten to mention a few of the things I'll be up to in the near-ish future. (I've talked about next week's Progressive .NET session before.) This is just a quick rundown - follow the links for more blurb and details. [...]

I had some problems with running rake under cygwin. I get the following error while trying to execute rake:C:\Ruby192\bin\ruby.exe: No such file or directory – /cygdrive/c/Ruby192/bin/rake (LoadError) Could it be that the problem is that the first line in[...]

I had some problems with running rake under cygwin. I get the following error while trying to execute rake:C:\Ruby192\bin\ruby.exe: No such file or directory – /cygdrive/c/Ruby192/bin/rake (LoadError) Could it be that the problem is that the first line in[...]

Just a quick note to say that my upcoming “Beginning F#” course has been moved to 1st & 2nd November to tie it in with the “Progressive F#” tutorials. Participants will receive a free ticket to the “Progressive F#” tutorials as well as a free copy of my B[...]

After a quiet summer season, it is time to look at the upcoming F# talks and courses. If you want to learn about functional and asynchronous programming, F# and more, you may want to come to our training (organized with SkillsMatter), tutorials or some co[...]