Whilst searching for an elegant solution to apply string interning across a large number of classes (we’re talking about hundreds of classes here..) it dawned on me that I can achieve this with ease using PostSharp’s LocationInterceptionAspect. All I need[...]

Follow the controversy here: http://www.simontylercousins.net/journal/2013/2/22/does-the-language-you-choose-make-a-difference.html… and via @simontcousins on twitter ...the one stat in the summary that I find most compelling is the defect rate. I have no[...]

On Tuesday I did a lightning talk at the MVP Summit in Bellevue on connecting to all things, from statistics to statistical programming languages with Intellisense and LINQ using F# Type Providers, a feature shipped with Visual Studio 2012:   Connect[...]

WARNING: what I describe here seems to be an antipattern See Haskell Antipattern: Existential Typeclass So better only use it with what is said in the Haskell-Wiki and mind the good comments bellow – Thank you Stephen and Jacob Sometimes … Weiterlesen →

Welcome to F# Weekly, One more week passed and a new portion of F# Weekly is waiting to be read. News Tomas Petricek shared materials from his talk “F# Agents“. Foq 0.7 is released with verification support & simplified setup for C# & F# via NuGet. (previ[...]

Just a sweet and short little post to help others get up to speed accessing SQL Server Express 2008 with Clojure’s SQL Korma library. Set Up SQL Server Express I’m using SQL Server 2008 Express. To configure your DB server go to Start > All Programs > Mic[...]

Recently I stumbled upon a post in Moirae Software blog. It was about hunting a memory leak in a F# application. What was interesting about the leak that it was caused by non-tail recursive call, however the call seemed to be tail at first glance. It turn[...]

Readers who follow me on Twitter or Google+ know this already, but… The third edition of C# in Depth is now available for early access from its page on the Manning website. I’ve been given a special discount code which expires at midnight EST on February[...]

All code samples from this post are available on GitHub. Samples for one more Stanford NLP library were ported to .NET. It is Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER). To compile stanford-ner.jar to .NET assembly you need to follow the steps from my post “N[...]