Like many a good man, I too got caught into the 2048 trap, which explains in part why I have been rather quiet on this blog lately (there are a couple other reasons, too). In case you don't know what 2048 is yet, first, consider yourself lucky - and, fair warning, you might want to back away now, while you still have a chance. 2048 is a very simple and fun game, and one of the greatest time sinks since Tetris. You can play it here, and the source code is here on GitHub. I managed to dodge the bullet fo[...]

Cory House gave a good talk titled “Becoming an Outlier: Career Reboot for the Developer Mind“ at this year’s NDC Oslo conference (there’s really so many to choose from!) and it’s one that has really resonated with me as it aligns with many of my personal goals and experiences. To help me better remember these [...]

So NDC Oslo 2014’s finished, it was the first time I’ve attended the conference and I must say it has been a fantastic experience for me. No only was I given the privilege to see so many smart people talking about interesting topics happening in our field, I was also able to meet quite a [...]

So one of the things I’ve done recently to help me to learn a new language is to tackle creating certain data structures and common operations on those structures in a given language.  And lately I’ve been digging Elixir quite a bit.  So I decided to tackle one of the easiest things I could tackle–a […]

For any of you that are aware of the newly updated Xamarin Web site, you may have seen the following: Objective-C was ahead of its time 30 years ago. C# is ahead of its time today. Anything you can do in Objective-C or Java, you can do in C# with Xamarin—usually more succinctly and with fewer bugs. What is also true is that F# is way ahead of its time, and you can produce even more succinct code with even fewer bugs than C#!