Last month Grant Crofton popped down from Leeds to the F#unctional Londoners meetup at Skills Matter to run a fun hands on code golf session. The idea of code golf is to implement a specific algorithm in the fewest possible characters. This is not the kin[...]

A few days ago, I was watching Dustin Campell’s excellent talk from TechEd 2013, “Essential truths everyone should know about performance in a large managed code base”. I highly recommend it, and it made me think a bit more about Noda Time’s performance. [...]

That’s the title of my presentation at Dog Food Conference 2014, 29-30 September, in Columbus, Ohio. If you found my post on "Test-Only Development" with the Z3 Theorem Prover was interesting, then you’ll love this. What if simply writing "unit tests" was[...]

WebSharper.UI.Next provides a powerful declarative animation system. This mini-blog shows how to integrate this with single-page sites and flowlets.

It is the summer, a time to cool off and enjoy vacations – so let’s keep it light, and hopefully fun, today! A couple of days ago, during his recent San Francisco visit, @tomaspetricek brought up an idea that I found intriguing. What if you had two images[...]

I never notice that IIS Express doesn’t listen to web requests other than localhost. So, to my surprise, when I try http://127.0.0.1, I got HTTP 400, Bad Request instead.     Change 127.0.0.1 to localhost and everything is fine.   Anyway, you can set your[...]

In the first part of the series I waked through how I came upon Metaprogramming and IronPython in particular. I also showed some simple examples with it. In this post I'll be going through creating a Deserializer with IronPython and hopefully learning s[...]

While writing Seekwell there were several ideas that came and went trying to optimize the deserialization from IDataReader to IEnumerable<T>. The minimum viable product was to simply use reflection. That of course was slow so we cached as much of the re[...]

We have years worth of historical queue data in a Microsoft Sql database and the same tables that contain this historical data also keep track of pending or currently active work. Here's a highly simplified visual example. TypeSubtypeStatusParameters [...]

You may notice that I've changed my blog again. This time I've renounced Blogger completely in favor of Ghost. You may also notice that I have it running on Azure now which means that I actually have control of all the source code for the site. A major[...]