Well, I didn’t think I would be doing this but heres some of the sessions Im looking forward to watching from this years Build conference. Server / Cloud Obviously first up is the F# 3.0 session by Don Syme, really looking forward to this session! F# 3.0: data, services, Web, cloud, at your fingertips Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information and services. With F# 3.0 and Visual Studio 11, you now have a tool that massively simplifies information-rich analytical programming. F# 3.[...]

Well, I didn’t think I would be doing this but heres some of the sessions Im looking forward to watching from this years Build conference… First up is the Server+Cloud section, this section contains the only F# presentation which is disappointing. Server+Cloud Obviously first up is the F# 3.0 session by Don Syme, really looking [...]

I actually have the last two episodes of my RavenDB series ready to go, but doesn’t seem much point publishing them this week, so here’s a few thoughts on stuff from build and Windows 8 instead. Firstly Windows 8: I thought the build keynotes did a nice job of selling Windows 8, although adjectives like super and amazing were used far too much for my tastes. I would like a Windows 8 tablet because it seems to do a nice job of bring it all together, yes it’s nothing you can’t get already from Apple (iPad, [...]

Initially, one of the biggest problems I found when trying to marry records was the god awful quality of much of data I often have to work with. It’s mostly old mainframe and database data with truncated fields, limited character sets and fields with nonsensical contents. Even worse, much of the data is the result [...]