We have years worth of historical queue data in a Microsoft Sql database and the same tables that contain this historical data also keep track of pending or currently active work. Here's a highly simplified visual example. TypeSubtypeStatusParameters ExportEmailComplete"From: noreply@foo.com, To: someone@bar.com" ImportExcelActive"FilePath: c:\import.xls" ImportWebPending"Url: http://google.com" This structure leaves us with several issues: Contention: To handle volume we have many windows serv[...]

You may notice that I've changed my blog again. This time I've renounced Blogger completely in favor of Ghost. You may also notice that I have it running on Azure now which means that I actually have control of all the source code for the site. A major win compared to Blogger where everything is a widget. That's probably great for non devs, but it's much easier for me to write a handlebars template with bootstrap than it is to try and hack a prebuilt widget or theme. I'm hopeful that the formatting on[...]

That’s the title of the presentation I’ll be giving at CloudDevelop 2014, on October 17th, in Columbus, Ohio. If you read my blog at all then you’re probably interested in where software development will be headed five years in the future. Two things I recommend that you study are proving systems and homomorphic encryption. I’ve written [...]

In this post I’ll introduce a style of programming which may be totally unfamiliar and perhaps a bit magical to many readers. What if you could write a unit test for a problem and have your compiler automatically return a correct implementation? Call it "test only" instead of "test first." I’m going to translate the [...]

Intro I’m sure you would have all seen the highly addictive and annoying game 2048 by now (if not, follow the link and have a go now, don’t forget to come back here though! ).  Fellow F#er  @brandewinder wrote a bot that wins the game for you, subsequently turning it into an cool F# dojo.  It is London’s turn for this dojo next Thursday, so I figured before then I would have a go myself and do the obvious thing which is to turn it into a type provider :) 2048 TP Edition is available as part of my type prov[...]