Were I sponsoring a technology conference, I’d much rather get my logo on a coffee mug than just about anything else from the conference.  Why do I say this?  Consider some other alternatives: a t-shirt, a thumb drive, a pen.   No matter how slovenly a developer, he or she will only wear a t-shirt […]

The F# developer can use pattern matching syntax pretty much anywhere in F#.  For example, consider the following list: let l = [1..25] If I want to get the last element of the list, I can do this with a little trivial pattern match:  let lastElem::_ = l |> List.rev;; stdin(7,5): warning FS0025: Incomplete pattern […]

So back in 2011 I was trying to get an F# user group going here in Detroit.  As is so often the case with user groups, most of the responsibility for setting things up and arranging things was falling on one person–me.  In fairness, the folks at Epitec did their best to help; they provided […]

I assist with the face to face interview of software engineers at our firm.  One of my favorite questions to ask a candidate is “What is the most important quality a unit test should have?”  I’m surprised at how many times I get a blank stare; I mean I would at least expect something along […]

Big hat tip to sartorial exemplar John Fair for putting me on to this idea and sharing his set of default aliases. If you use git bash for your typical interaction with git (and probably you should if you don’t because it behaves the same on all git platforms), adding a few shortcuts can dramatically [...]