I tend to complain a lot about the programming tools I work with. In one sentence, the world of software is just not a sane place. If left unchecked, this complaining attitude can grow into despair - so I enjoy a little escape from time to time. I need to[...]

In .NET Rocks episode 855, Jeff Fritz commented on ASP.NET Web API being somewhat confusing in terms of its intended use. I don’t tend to agree, but I thought I would address one point he made in particular: that Web API is perhaps just another form of re[...]

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Latest snapshot of the WebSharper repositories (Bitbucket and at GitHub) showcases some build automation I finally managed to get working. It starts from MSBuild that uses NuGet to pull dependencies, including build dependencies, and then jumps to FAKE -[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, One more week passed by with an excellent event “Functional Programming Exchange 2013“. All tracks are recorded and available on the conference page. But this is not the only event in F# universe, so see details below: News Eduardo C[...]

Mondrian is one of those modern painters whose work everyone recognizes, even though few people will quote his name. He also happens to be one of my favorite artists – in spite of their simple geometric structure, I find his pieces strangely beautiful: “[...]

Big data is the buzzword de jour, and why not?  Companies like Google with huge server farms are doing amazing things leveraging huge amounts of data and processing power.  It’s all very sexy but these researchers get to pick and choose the data they work[...]

Background I've been to a few talks on SOLID before. Most of the principles seem pretty reasonable to me – but I've never "got" the open-closed principle (OCP from here on). At CodeMash this year, I mentioned this to the wonderful Cori Drew, who said tha[...]