Last week I travelled to Malmö in Sweden for Øredev, a large well established annual conference primarily covering enterprise development practices from programming to agile. The first night at the event was probably the most surreal I’ve experienced at a developer conference. It began with a keynote from XKCD creator Randall Munroe covering their increasingly elaborate April fools’ day pranks and turning his lounge into a ball pit. Then, along with Rachel Reese, Julie Lerman, Iris Classon and some e[...]

Last week’s Progressive F# tutorials conference seems to have struck a note: Progressive F# 2013 best conference ever. Fact. #progfsharp A big thanks to Skills Matter for organizing this 2-day hands on community event: You can see pictures from the event on Skills Matter’s Facebook photo stream:   Following on from events in 2011 and 2012 this year we welcomed 79 F#ers: #progFsharp seems to grow in size every year :) If you’d lik[...]

.Net was Microsoft’s answer to Java. Java promised a single language that could target multiple platforms. .Net offered multiple languages that targeted Windows. Back then that meant C#, VB.Net and C++/CLI, Virtual Machines Things have moved on for both VMs, the JVM now has a plethora of languages like Groovy, Clojure and Scala. Meanwhile .Net code has become cross platform via Mono, in fact C# and F# now have arguably offer a better story for iOS than Java. For iOS, Xamarin compiles C# and F# code to n[...]

At Trayport we’re serious about quality, and are now hiring for a software developer in test. You… Are enthusiastic about building automated tests that help continuous delivery of exceptional quality software. Are skilled with .NET and have strong development and debugging abilities, with knowledge of test frameworks and design patterns. Love to work in lean and agile environments, delivering software through TDD, ATDD and BDD. Want to work in a team of talented technologists who will chal[...]

I’m heading home on the geek train back from a cracking DDD North, this year held in Sunderland and attracting 430 attendees and three well attended F# talks. I managed to deliver the first pony of the day in F# eye for the C# Guy: F# Eye for the C# Guy - DDD North 2013 from ptrelford Starting with live samples of immutable classes in C# and then in F# using the class and record syntax. Then instantiating the classes via the F# interactive (REPL) window and from C# which simply requires a reference[...]