I’ve renamed the dotnet-console project on github to isop. Isop is the swedish name for hyssop. Like any spice it is intended to give flavor to the development of command line apps in .net.

The VP of our Developer Division, S. Somasegar, has written a great blog entry on the new programming language technologies in Visual Studio 11. There is a great section on F# which really highlights the innovations that we continue to bring to the produc[...]

There are some pitfalls. One for instance is that it starts the editor wrong when running msysgit in the cygwin shell. Naturally I tried specifying different paths and ended up with the following configuration of gitconfig:c:\cygwin\home\wallymathieu.gitc[...]

There are some pitfalls. One for instance is that it starts the editor wrong when running msysgit in the cygwin shell. Naturally I tried specifying different paths and ended up with the following configuration of gitconfig: c:\\cygwin\\home\\wallymathieu[...]

I’ve updated the dotnet-console to enable help. It’s not finished, but it’s looking better. Still needs a lot of refactoring though. The tests document the more stable fluent interface. The stuff behind the fluent interface is more prone to change. It’s a[...]

I’ve updated the dotnet-console to enable help. It’s not finished, but it’s looking better. Still needs a lot of refactoring though. The tests document the more stable fluent interface. The stuff behind the fluent interface is more prone to change. It’s a[...]

Twitter now provides a streaming API which can be used to obtain a continuous stream of tweets on any set of topics, locations, etc., in real time. Read the full API details here. It would be nice to convert this … Continue reading →

Today's the day to say it loud and clear: I'm an Apple II kid.... I grew up in Toowoomba, Australia, and had the good fortune to go to a (then somewhat radical) primary school which had an Apple II+ for use in Year 6 and 7. I guess it was 1979-1982. My br[...]