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January 2008 - Posts

Video Interview - Aaron Erickson on i4o, MetaLinq, and C# 3.0
After many months of editing :) - Jeff Brand of Microsoft got our video interview from Twin Cities Code Camp up on his site. Read More...

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Getting Simple Things Done in F# Part 2 - Parsing a text file into a sequence of a custom type
In this post, we open a file that contains a long list of drugs from the FDA website and parse them into an immutable data structure. The key is, of course, the idea of a F# sequence. Think of a sequence as something that you iterate over with potentially Read More...

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F# Samples, Sum and Transform Sum
A couple of simple operations, count and transform sum, for your F# viewing pleasure: #light open System [<STAThread>] do let arrayOfNumbers = [1..500] let rec count list = match list with | h::tail -> (count tail) + 1 | [] -> 0 let rec transform Read More...

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Magenic Podcast - Mike Hugos on Innovation
Our first in a series of 5. In this podcast, Michael Hugos from the Center of Systems Innovation and Sandy White from our Bay Area office talk about how agile development techniques can spur innovation . The podcast is available on the Magenic website, Read More...

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Linq Unit Test Set
Whew - just completed my first pass at my unit test suite for our custom query provider in CSLA.net. I do find it deeply ironic that the test suite was substantially more work and time involved than writing the provider itself. That said, I would certainly Read More...

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Functional Programming is Hard
I am in deep learn mode with F# - as in, going through Syme's Expert F# book and doing everything I can to understand it. As in, rather than doing my normal skimming of material, read it in detail, and "code along" with the examples. My Read More...

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Agile Development and The 30 Day Blitz
We did the webinar. Definitely worth watching and/or listening to. Mike Hugos and I basically talk, for the better part of an hour, about how agile development and the 30 day blitz help companies understand that, yes, you CAN get results from the IT department Read More...

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Webinar! 30 Day Blitz and Agile Development
Almost forgot to mention this, but its still not too late to sign up . Mike Hugos and I are going to sit down and have a conversation about the 30-day blitz and what it can mean for your project. We will also be taking questions at the end. Once it completes, Read More...

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