A few backs I visited New York City taking in some of the many sites like the Empire State Building for the views, Grand Central Terminal for the oysters, Central Park for waffles & dinges, Harry’s Bar for steaks, the American Museum of Natural History for stars and stuffed animals and the MoMA for modern art. MoMA The department of Architecture and Design at the MoMA had 14 video games on display including PacMan. Are video games art? They sure are. I also found an interesting piece by Philippe Decra[...]

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You’ve read the introduction books, you’ve keyed in the hello world examples, now it’s time to dive deep into solutions from experienced developers working in interesting domains. Deep Dive Like many of you I’m sure I’ve collected a bookshelf full of books introducing an array of languages and technologies. But like you I crave material that is based on actual experience of developing real-work systems in interesting domains. The excellent Beautiful Architecture and Beautiful Code books present chapters[...]

Since the start of the year there’s been an F# meetup every 2 weeks in London at Skills Matter, in the middle of the month we do a hands session and at the end a talk or two. There’s always a good turnout and the group now has over 500 members. Want to get in on the action, there’s a particularly exciting schedule of free events featuring F# in and around London over the coming months: This week .Net in the City with Daniel Egloff on Combining F# and GPUs on Thursday 16th May Next week F# Type Provide[...]

Scanning over Alvin Ashcraft’s excellent Morning Dew (a must read for .Net devs as is Chris Alcock’s Morning Brew), I came across a short article from Richard Carr on writing Fixed Width Data Files using C#. Richard creates a class that inherits from StreamWriter, and all-in it’s just over 50 lines of idiomatic C# code: using System; using System.IO; using System.Text; public class FixedWidthWriter : StreamWriter { public int[] Widths { get; set; } public char NonDataCharacter { get; set; } [...]