This week I ran a half-day hands on games development session at the Progressive .Net Tutorials hosted by Skills Matter in London. I believe this was the last conference to be held in Goswell Road before the big move to an exciting new venue. My session [...]

Now, let me start this post by saying I love XNA/Monogame. XNA was Microsoft’s first (and currently last) attempt to have a first class managed framework for writing games. Luckily the excellent Monogame project has picked up Microsoft’s slack and … Conti[...]

I’m a bit of a Pacman fan so when I came across the Pacman Kata in the Kata Catalogue I was hooked: Pacman finds himself in a grid filled with monsters. Will he be able to eat all the dots on the board before the monsters eat him? Back in early 2012[...]

From the window at the office I’ve seen a series of futuristic buildings erected, first the Gherkin, then the Shard and now the Walkie Talkie:   The last one being recently been re-dubbed the Walkie Scorchie as it produces a supercharged solar ‘death ra[...]

Last night I ran a free hands on Generative Art session to a full class room at Skills Matter for the F#unctional Londoners meetup group. We host a hands on programming sessions every month, next month we’ll return to the Machine Learning theme with Matt [...]

This week our automated tools uncovered a fatal exception before it reached the client. Nick and Anton, 2 of the full-time testers on our team have written a testing tool they call Random Walker that simulates interactions with the user interface as click[...]

About a year ago XAML type provider (that now a part of fsharpx project) was born. First of all, happy birthday XAML type provider and thank you everyone who was involved. Up to XAML type provider release the best option for F# WPF development was to spli[...]

Tonight (actually in about half an hour) Dmitry Morozov will be talking at the F# New York City Meetup on F# MVC for WPF. F# is known as a great language to express complex algorithms, crunch numbers and process all kinds of data. Have you ever wondered i[...]

A popup is a window without a standard border that pops up above other controls to display contextual information like a tooltip, context menu or validation error. Silverlight’s browser heritage means it’s built-in popups may appear clipped inside their p[...]