In this post, I will show an example of where using unit testing as a design methodology does not work, and how to produce a design for correct code anyway. There is no single design methodology which works for all problems, so it’s useful to have a variety of tools at your disposal. This post is [...]

I’ve been scouring the CodeMash accepted session list for talks featuring F#, and there are quite a few! A Developer’s Journey from Object Oriented to Functional Programming, by Reid Evans Async Everywhere!, by Stephen Cleary Deep Dive into Deep Learning, by Gary Short Functional Browser Automation Testing for Newbs, by Bryan Arendt Programs that Write Programs: How Compilers Work, by [...]

I’ll be speaking about compilers, testing, and machine learning at a conference near you! Abstracts for all of these sessions are on my Presentations page. Programs that Write Programs: How Compilers Work Dog Food Conference and CodeMash What Testing Can Never Do and How to Do It Anyway Dog Food Conference Machine Learning with Azure ML CloudDevelop Share This [...]

In Code First Entity Framework models, you can define the length of a string field with StringLengthAttribute, but you have to write code in OnModelCreating to indicate a CHAR/NCHAR fixed length field: public class MyEntity { [Key] public int Id { get; set; } [StringLength(2)] public string FixedLengthColumn { get; set; } } public partial class MyContext : DbContext { public virtual DbSet MyEntities { [...]

I’ll be speaking at Lambda Jam next week. Here’s the synopsis: When you leave Lambda Jam and return to work, do you expect to apply what you’ve learned here to hard problems, or is there just never time or permission to venture outside of fixing “undefined is not a function" in JavaScript? Many of us do [...]