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April 2008 - Posts

On Business Intelligence and F#
It is high time that Business Intelligence get the benefits of the language "Cambrian Explosion" and agile revolution. Think about BI for a second. Most of the talk around BI is oriented around tools - a stack that ties together presentation, Read More...

by aarone | 12 Comments

Does TDD Guarantee Quality? Probably not.
No. Period. Full stop. TDD guarantees quality about as much as religion guarantees morality. It is probably tempting to draw a cause effect relationship from one to the other, since current TDD practicioners tend to be very good software developers, but Read More...

by aarone | 3 Comments

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Back from MVP Summit
Wow - what can I say... what a great time! Things I get to cross off my todo list: * Rock a 500+ note streak on expert in Rock Band in front of 200 or so people in the Hendrix museum * Meet most of the F# team * Ask Ray Ozzie of Groove is going to be Read More...

by aarone | 3 Comments

F# Oddities, the § symbol
I was looking for where the § is on my keyboard, as many of the Linq to SQL samples in F# use that in front of the database context variable. Strange enough, was looking on my keyboard for it, with no luck. The key does not exist, at least on my Read More...

by aarone | 6 Comments

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Magenic Mirrors - Way more Blogs, No extra Charge :)
Wow - just realized that our feed now has some great content from Magenicons that do not use this particular community server instance... aka, the Magenic Mirrors blog . Corey Miller, Dan English, Aaron Lowe, are all there, with many more being added. Read More...

by aarone | 0 Comments

Twitter me This, Twitter me That...
Yes, I gave in and created a Twitter thing. URL: http://twitter.com/AaronErickson Read More...

by aarone | 1 Comments

F# Plan for the "Near Future"
InfoQ has spelled out what is coming with the next major release of F#. A lot of this stuff will be very useful. Having interactive F# inside of VS will be nice just to not have to switch apps to move between interactive and "coding" mode. As Read More...

by aarone | 0 Comments

Back from Code Camp
Again, always a huge pleasure to attend one of the most fun events that I do, which of course, is the Twin Cities Code Camp that Jason Bock puts on twice a year. What a fun event. The people up there are great - everyone is really curious, and the audience Read More...

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ScandalGenerator.com - The F# Based Scandal Generator Website
Normally, I don't post here about "personal" projects, but since I needed a good reason to learn F#, and I am somewhat of a political junkie, I have launched scandalgenerator.com , a website that all the campaigns can use to streamline their Read More...

by aarone | 3 Comments

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CSLA 3.5 Launched!
Official announcement via dotnetrocks . Download it here . This kind of thing is the favorite part of my job, bar none. Read More...

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