Microsoft’s Small Basic is a minimal implementation of the BASIC programming language using only 14 keywords. It’s aimed at beginners with a very simple development environment and library. My kids have enjoyed playing with it particularly the Turtle API [...]

So I’ve been giving a little more time and attention to both Scala and Vagrant.  Vagrant is a nice way to manage development environments via the use of VM’s and Scala, of course, is a great hybrid of OO and FP.  One of the things I’ve done is to start wo[...]

I had the opportunity to play with NDepend and could not keep from trying it on F# code. It is interesting to see how analysis rules that designed for languages like C# apply to functional-first F#. When I downloaded NDepend from the official site, I expe[...]

If you have followed my posts about setting up Ghost blogging site on Windows Azure and adding Disqus comment and changing your Ghost site theme, you probably notice that code block that comes with Ghost is very plain and has no syntax highlighting. Don’t[...]

If you have followed my posts about setting up Ghost blogging site on Windows Azure and adding Disqus comment and changing your Ghost site theme, you probably notice that code block that comes with Ghost is very plain and has no syntax highlighting. Don’t[...]

Last post, we have set up the Ghost blogging site on Windows Azure. In this post, we will continue customizing our Ghost site by changing the theme as well as add Disqus comment. By changing the theme, you can either fork the default casper theme and modi[...]

I stumbled across this little gem the other day – websocketd – which turns anything that takes standard-in and standard-out into a websocket server! To build a dead simple echo server, follow these steps: follow the download instructions here (don’t forge[...]

Only one desktop application that I miss on Windows RT is the Windows Live Writer. WLW works well with blogging sites like WordPress and making writing blog post a breeze. While monitoring my twitter feed talking about WLW, Scott Hanselman has mentioned G[...]

Hi everyone, happy new year! I was really glad to find a couple of days to work on some of my open source projects and put together a new version of DynamoDB.SQL which brings it inline with the latest version of the .Net AWSSDK amongst other things. You c[...]