In math we use the remainder for modular-arithmetic. That is given two numbers and we already saw that we can express as where is in the range – and we call this the remainder of dividing by , so for … Continue reading →

Note: don’t forget to check out the Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers.   Since my last round of benchmarks on binary serializers, there’s a new player in town – MessageShark, which at the time of this writing does n[...]

Sometimes when you quit firefox while downloading something, firefox will remove the file, but the dock item “downloads” will still contains a “somerandom string” with “.part” extension. To remove, these files: Delete the dock item “Downloads” then add it[...]

It’s just before lunch and nearly 4 hours into the 8 hour game writing competition and we have about 200 lines of F# and some sprites on the screen. Keys: Z=left, X=right, Q=up, A=down, Space=shoot As you can see we've gone for a bit of a[...]

So, after working for 13 years for the same employer, I’ve changed jobs. This month I joined Spruce Media; my title is "Software Engineer." ‘Course, I liked my old job, too, but Spruce Media’s offer was too good to pass up. It’s a really great time to be [...]

The alternatives right now (2012-02-22):<ol> Standard html: File select together in a form that is submitted to a page. (firefox, chrome, IE) Iframe hack: File select together with hidden iframe used to upload file. (firefox, chrome, IE) Flash (all flash [...]

Less than a month to go now until the first FP event of this year – the Functional Programming eXchange at Skills Matter in London on March 16th. Robert Pickering has put together another great line up including on the F# side Tomas Petricek on F# 3.0’[...]

Just a quick note to mention that I will be speaking to The Developers Group on the 14th Mar about NoSQL Databases and how to use them to solve common web use cases. In this session I’ll give an overview of the NoSQL movement and compare the different typ[...]