Last night Neil Danson gave a great presentation on F# on iPad and iPhone in Xamarin Studio at the F#unctional Londoners meetup hosted by Skills Matter. Xamarin announced that they were working towards first-class F# support at their recent Evolve conference, and that support is currently in Beta. Xamarin Studio is an IDE that runs on Mac, Linux and Windows and lets you target iOS and Android. Easy to follow instructions: Use F# for iOS development Neil showed how to build a movie database application u[...]

This week our automated tools uncovered a fatal exception before it reached the client. Nick and Anton, 2 of the full-time testers on our team have written a testing tool they call Random Walker that simulates interactions with the user interface as clicks and gestures. It has helped uncover numerous issues, particularly NullReferenceExceptions, more often than not emanating from third-party libraries. It typically finds issues that are not easily found by manual testing or our extensive suite of unit and [...]

A few backs I visited New York City taking in some of the many sites like the Empire State Building for the views, Grand Central Terminal for the oysters, Central Park for waffles & dinges, Harry’s Bar for steaks, the American Museum of Natural History for stars and stuffed animals and the MoMA for modern art. MoMA The department of Architecture and Design at the MoMA had 14 video games on display including PacMan. Are video games art? They sure are. I also found an interesting piece by Philippe Decra[...]

Are you a high performing Developer looking to use the latest technologies? Perhaps you want to be more than just a cog in the wheel, playing an integral part in high level projects? Or maybe you are looking for a company that puts an emphasis on work life balance? If so we would be keen to hear from you. What you’ll be doing We are currently looking for a passionate Developer to join the front end team. Working as part of a high performing team, the role will involve · Working as part of one of the th[...]

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 books introducing an array of languages and technologies. But like you I crave material that is based on actual experience of developing real-work systems in interesting domains. The excellent Beautiful Architecture and Beautiful Code books present chapters[...]