A ChildWindow in Silverlight is a control that can be displayed over a parent window blocking its interaction. Silverlight 5 introduces multiple window support for Out-of-Browser (OOB) applications with elevated trust. Unfortunately the ChildWindow contro[...]

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The more I think about the metro style, it sounds really revolutionary for microsoft design. I’ve started looking at how the new windows phone style looks. It looks more modern than the other themes for smart phones. Probably because it’s not been used as[...]

The more I think about the metro style, it sounds really revolutionary for microsoft design. I’ve started looking at how the new windows phone style looks. It looks more modern than the other themes for smart phones. Probably because it’s not been used as[...]

My last blog post was yet another introduction to Currying and Partial application. Now I want to put the focus more on the why part. Why do we want to have our functions in curryied form most of the time? This is the first part of a small blog post serie[...]

Silverlight 5 provides multi-window support for Out-of-Browser (OOB) applications with elevated trust. Unfortunately the ContextMenu provided in the December 2011 release of the Silverlight Toolkit is not multi-window aware which means that context menu’s[...]

Today I had a conversation on twitter about partial application and type inference in F#. Partial application is a very important and useful concept and there are a lot of resources out there. Here is a short list of related material: Uncovering the Unkno[...]

Recently I sent a bit of time playing with Overtone. I’ve always been interested in music, but have little talent when it comes to playing instruments, so I really like the idea of a DSL for creating music. I was also inspired by one of my Christmas prese[...]

This is something I’ve mentioned in my recent AOP talks, and I think it’s worthy of a wider audience as it can be very useful to anyone who’s obsessed with performance as I am. At iwi, we take performance very seriously and are always looking to improve t[...]

I like working with the Sublime Text 2 editor and I surely like to work with FSharp so I’ve been trying to find ways to make life easier for myself.  A few tips to pass along: Get the F# Textmate Bundle. Once you get it, unzip it into the ~\Application Da[...]