To find the answer to this question I put together a very simple test, but before we go into it.. Disclaimer: this test and its result should be taken at face value only, it is intended to illustrate that posting messages to an agent is super lightweight, but in a real world application there will [...]

One of the problems with using F#’s Discriminated Unions is that they are not extensible, in that all your union cases must be specified inside one Discriminated Union (abbreviated to DU from this point) type and you can’t inherit from an existing DU type to add additional union cases. In most cases, having to specify [...]

Following my recent webinar with SharpCrafters on how to setup pseudo real-time performance monitoring using Aspect Oriented Programming and Amazon CloudWatch, I’d like to say thanks to the guys for having me, it was a great fun For anyone interested, the source code is available at: http://aop-demo.s3.amazonaws.com/RTPerfMonDemo.zip If you want to run the demo console [...]

I'm taking a vacation "back home", and will be speaking at the Big Picture Seminar at NICTA, Canberra tomorrow lunchtime. If you're in Canberra, I hope to see you there, and if you're at NICTA I hope you can catch it on the web broadcast.   Reconsidering Strongly-Typed Programming in the Information Rich World NICTA Canberra Research Laboratory, Friday 23 March 2012, Registration: 12:15pm Seminar: 12:30pm NICTA Seminar Room, Ground Floor, 7 London Circuit, Canberra The world is information rich, but why [...]