Microsoft’s Build 2014 conference is currently in full flow, one of the new products announced is Orleans, an Actor framework for Azure. There’s an MSDN blog article with some details, apparently it was used on Halo 4. Demis Bellot of ServiceStack fame,[...]

NorDevCon is a one day agile and tech conference held annually in the historic English town of Norwich, also the setting for the recent British comedy Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. Last Friday I took the short hop across the Fens to Norwich to talk about D[...]

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[...]

Scott Wlaschin has just posted a really interesting series on Dependency cycles over on the F# for fun and profit site. The last post shows cycles and modularity in the wild comparing open source C# and F# projects including SpecFlow and TickSpec which ha[...]

You’ve read the introduction books, you’ve keyed in the hello world examples, now it’s time to dive deep into solutions from experienced developers working in interesting domains. Deep Dive Like many of you I’m sure I’ve collected a bookshelf full of b[...]

Scanning over Alvin Ashcraft’s excellent Morning Dew (a must read for .Net devs as is Chris Alcock’s Morning Brew), I came across a short article from Richard Carr on writing Fixed Width Data Files using C#. Richard creates a class that inherits from Str[...]

I’ve heard a few times that I have a great face for radio ;). Here’s 3 recordings from this year where I get my radio head on and talk about F#. Why F#? with Richard Minerich and Phillip Trelford Interview with Scott Hanselman (March 2012)   Phil Tr[...]

This week I had the please of attending GOTO Copenhagen - a 3 day developer conference covering a diverse range of topics. Day 1 I started the day on the excellent Beyond the Microsoft Echo Chamber track taking in: Mark Seeman on Bending AutoFixture[...]