Whats wrong with SharePointfrom a developer point of view? Packages It's somewhat unreliable in it's deployment of files. Takes a lot of time to install/uninstall a package. Not a modern approach to package management. Its basically a cab file with files[...]

Earlier this week I gave a talk at the first London WebSharper User Group meetup about WebSharper 2.0 and some of its new features such as sitelets and the new Visual Studio templates. This was a longer, class-like talk with many technical points discusse[...]

We are making excellent progress on releasing WebSharper 2.0 in the coming weeks, and have just put out the first beta version of WebSharper 2.0, ready for some public testing and community feedback. Here are the links:

When you write your first Fluent NHibernate application with Mono/.NET based on the Getting started tutorial, you eventually discover that you require a few extra assembly-dll references not mentioned. For my Postgres (PostgreSQL) project my references ar[...]

In this article, we look at the internals of asynchronous programming models in F# and a future version of C#. We compare the compilation in C# (based on state machines) and the compilation in F# (based on combinators) and we look at advantages and disadv[...]

Why using a build system like Ruby rake or some other next generation tool (psake looks promising) to build your .net application or library? A) Builds are not data. Xml is for data. It may be that the files or configurations are stored as xml, but does[...]

These prompts are quite :Hanselman: Introducing PowerShell prompt hereCommand prompt here round up For visual studio 2010 you might want to change the path to the correct Program Files folder (for instance if you’re running a 64 bit system).

Over the past 2 years my career has taken some interesting turns. I moved to Cape Town, started at Intervate Cape Town as contractor, and then moved on to MiX Telematics as a permanent member. At the time I joined them, both organizations went through far[...]

WebSharper talk at Sinergija 2010, Community Track.