April 2008 - Posts
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,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Yes, I gave in and created a Twitter thing. URL: http://twitter.com/AaronErickson
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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
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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
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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
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Official announcement via dotnetrocks . Download it here . This kind of thing is the favorite part of my job, bar none.
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