I'm glad to mention that SkillsMatter will be running their Progressive F# Tutorials in New York City, 5 June 2012! This is a great opportunity for those on the East Coast of the USA to dive into learrning F#.  Some details are below, more details via the link above.   Join us for this 2-day, 2-track F# event, packed with hands-on tutorials covering the latest developments in the fast moving world of F# Programming. Whether new to F# or seasoned veteran, be ready for an action packed two day adventure. [...]

To find out if a string contains a piece of substring, here are three simple ways of going about it in C#, just to name a few: String.Contains String.IndexOf where the return value is >= 0 Regex.IsMatch Out of curiosity I wanted to see if there was any noticeable difference in the performance of each [...]

Just a quick tech tip: if you have Skydrive (or GDrive or Dropbox or . . . .) you can get Git on any machine you have to use without having to install it on the machine.  Here’s how: Get the Portable Git package Create a directory on your cloud drive for Git (I use [...]

Deactivating accounts and trying out life off-the-grid.