Just a quick tech tip: if you have Skydrive (or GDrive or Dropbox or . . . .) you can get Git on any machine you have to use without having to install it on the machine.  Here’s how: Get the Portable Git package Create a directory on your cloud drive for Git (I use [...]

On Saturday last I learned that my dad’s cousin, Donald Anthony Cornacchio had passed away.  It’s never easy to put in words how we feel about someone we’re close to and Tony (I always called him Tony—no one called him “Donald” that I know of and I think he hated to be called “Donald”) was [...]

There was a question posted to Stackoverflow about an implementation of the solution of “Einstein’s Riddle” in F#.  Here’s the text of the question, which I include in case the text of the question is later altered: I’m looking for Einstein’s Riddle solution using F# and I’ve found only Einstein meets F#. Is F# suitable [...]

I’ve seen a relatively common anti-pattern in Object-Oriented development, although to be fair, I’ve seen something closely akin in non OO languages as well.  The following C# code is a demonstration of the issue:   Can you spot the problem? The problem is the constructor and the f function using the class variable _m directly.  [...]

I often think of why I feel that it’s important to have a functional language—not just write code that’s pseudo-functional in an imperative language.  As I think this through, I wanted to record some of my ideas on the subject. Even the best developers I’ve known are almost always inclined to take the defaults.  I [...]