What do I mean when I say? - System level package / Global package: Package installed so that it is available for every program on the system - Local package: Package installed into sub folder of project and only available to that project Timeline dp[...]

Sometimes when working with xml you have more information in the xml file than you know what to do with in your code. It could be new tags or attributes. A way to use the xml you have not anticipated in your code. A simple way to present that information [...]

I recently chatted with someone about functional programming and why you would not want to have a look at it these days (something I cannot understand at all ;) ). Aside from the usual stuff like “to ivory tower”, “to abstract”, “to much math”, “to differ[...]

After enjoying owning a 150mm refractor telescope for a year, I decided I wanted to upgrade.

I recently came upon a short rant named What’s The Problem With Static Methods? by Jason Gorman. Jason argues there that .. methods should be instance methods by default because static methods cannot be composed/used with IoC and might make your TDD a rea[...]

Over the last few years, I created or contributed to a number of libraries including F# Data for data access, Deedle for exploratory data science with C# and F#, Markdown parser and code-formatter F# Formatting and other fun libraries such as one for c[...]

Over the last few years, I created or contributed to a number of libraries including F# Data for data access, Deedle for exploratory data science with C# and F#, Markdown parser and code-formatter F# Formatting and other fun libraries such as one for com[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Vagrant has been renamed to Vagabond. Please update your NuGet packages accordingly. C# 7 language planning Don Syme encourages F# people into Azure/Cloud to follow and contribute to [...]

The problem Invoking event handlers in C# has always been a bit of a pain, because an event with no subscribers is usually represented as a null reference. This leads to code like this: It’s important to use the handler local variable, as if instead you a[...]