Intro The F# programming language is really fun to work with. It lets you improve your code almost infinitely, not only in terms of performance but also readability. Having finished reading through McConnell’s Code Complete I’ve decided to add some declar[...]

I saw this in last month’s .Net magazine and thought it was pretty cool and worthwhile sharing. Without giving away too much of the intricacies (seeing as this is not my own work), this technique essentially boils down to using Javascript to append a <spa[...]

Let me spend a couple of minutes explaining what Im going to be posting about, heres a little bit of background… First of all I’m a seasoned C# programmer, I develop enterprise business applications, mainly specialising in backend architectures, multithr[...]

Let me spend a couple of minutes explaining what Im going to be posting about, heres a little bit of background… First of all I’m a seasoned C# programmer, I develop enterprise business applications, mainly specialising in backend architectures, multithre[...]

Hi this is my first post here on my new site, and in fact new blog too. This site is the online presence for my company which specialises in high performance enterprise software. I will be making regular contributions in the form of technical articles o[...]

Happy new year folks, we just rolled out the WebSharper 2.0 Beta4 release - with an enhanced installer and better support for sitelet-based development with some significant performance improvements. The new installer also became smarter and for new users[...]

F# is a new language so the F# editor in Visual Studio does not have all the bells and whistles of say the C# editor. I particularly missed the C# outlining/navigation features in the F# editor. Fortunately, Visual Studio 2010 … Continue reading →

Following on from part 2 where I wrote a simple page with a canvas area where you can scribble, I thought I’d add a couple of new features: ability to show the image as PNG image so user can save it change the line cap change the line join change the shad[...]

This is a neat trick I picked up the other day, you can create a dynamic class which takes in a set of properties in the constructor and dynamically generates Accessor and/or Mutation methods (you just have to choose which lines to leave out): In your cal[...]

In C# and other similar general purpose languages, there are access modifiers which allow you to specify whether a particular property can be accessed/modified by everyone (public), only subclasses (protected) or only from within the same class (private).[...]