Introduction On Thursday (July 4th, 2024) the UK held a general election. There are many, many blog posts, newspaper articles, podcast episodes etc covering the politics of it, and the lessons that the various political parties may need to learn. I, on th[...]

History I started blogging back in 2005, shortly before attending the only MVP summit I’ve managed to go to. I hosted the blog on msmvps.com, back when that was a thing. In 2014 I migrated to wordpress.com, in the hope that this would make everything nice[...]

This is a blog post rather than a bug report, partly because I really don’t know what’s at fault. Others with more knowledge of how the console works in .NET Core, or exactly what the Travis log does, might be able to dig deeper. TL;DR: If you’re running [...]

I’ve been following the progress of .NET Core with a lot of interest, and trying to make the Noda Time master branch keep up with it. The aim is that when Noda Time 2.0 eventually ships (apologies for the delays…) it will be compatible with .NET Core from[...]

A little while ago I was contacted about a new merge tool from the company behind PlasticSCM. (I haven't used Plastic myself, but I'd heard of it.) My initial reaction was that I wasn't interested in anything which required me to learn yet another source [...]

This is a slightly odd post, and before you read it you should probably put yourself into one of three buckets: Someone who doesn't care too much about functional programming, and finds higher order functions tricky: feel free to skip this post entire[...]