To find out if a string contains a piece of substring, here are three simple ways of going about it in C#, just to name a few: String.Contains String.IndexOf where the return value is >= 0 Regex.IsMatch Out of curiosity I wanted to see if there was any no[...]

Problem A. Speaking in Tongues The problem is here.   Problem B. Dancing with the Googlers The problem is here.   Problem C. Recycled Numbers The problem is here.   Enjoy!

World Singles is looking for a smart, motivated developer to join our small, fully distributed team of engineers, working on our multi-lingual, multi-tenant Internet dating platform. We're after someone with strong data management skills who can help us m[...]

I found out about Google CodeJam the other day, and looking at their info page, there’s a number of interesting problems you can solve as practice for the real thing coming up, and here are my F# solutions to the qualification round questions from the 201[...]

Again, I’d like to thank Igal Tabachnik and SharpCrafters for inviting me to do the webinar, the recording of the session is now available on their Vimeo channel. Pseudo Real Time Performance Monitoring with AOP and AWS CloudWatch from SharpCrafters on Vi[...]

To find the answer to this question I put together a very simple test, but before we go into it.. Disclaimer: this test and its result should be taken at face value only, it is intended to illustrate that posting messages to an agent is super lightweight,[...]

One of the problems with using F#’s Discriminated Unions is that they are not extensible, in that all your union cases must be specified inside one Discriminated Union (abbreviated to DU from this point) type and you can’t inherit from an existing DU type[...]

Following my recent webinar with SharpCrafters on how to setup pseudo real-time performance monitoring using Aspect Oriented Programming and Amazon CloudWatch, I’d like to say thanks to the guys for having me, it was a great fun For anyone interested, the[...]

I love using F#’s Record and Discriminated Union types, they work nicely with pattern matching inside your F# code and can often alleviate some of the ceremony involved around creating and using a complex object hierarchy. However, on the odd occasion whe[...]

I will be doing a webinar with the good folks of PostSharp on the 22nd March to talk about the use of AOP and AWS CloudWatch as a pseudo real-time performance monitoring tool (see high-level overview here). It’s a free webinar, it runs from 22nd March 3PM[...]