In my previous post on getting into higher order functions I wrote about how I've been using higher order functions instead of foreach loops. All of the functions defined in that article were immutable, and had no side effects aside from returning data. [...]

Suppose you need to write a script that finds n files, all called based on some pattern, say “c:\temp\my_file_x.txt”, where “x” is replaced by a range of numbers [1..30] for instance, reads the content of these files and glues them together. Suppose also [...]

.Net 4.5 introduced a handy little new method Comparer<T>.Create to aid the creation of bespoke comparers, which is great because it means that you don’t have to define a new Comparer class when it is going to be needed once. In case you’re wondering, it’[...]