June 2008 - Posts
Scratching an itch today, thinking about code I have written in the past to attempt to do duck calls in C# (that is, call a named method without explicitly knowing that it even supports the method) - I decided, what the heck, why not just write the extension
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This Summer, I am very excited to be doing a couple talks on F# around the midwest. On July 8th, I kick things off in Bloomington Illinois , where I will be covering the overview and the details about not only how to do useful things in F#, but why you
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My talk last April on Business Intelligence is up on the Technology Executives Club website. Business Intelligence continues to be an enterprise that, in my humble view, tends to be too tied to particular products, and not to specific domains. When people
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Well, it's about time, but after a hiatus to work on implementing indexing in CSLA.net, I have provided some very badly needed updates to i4o. Added are the following: * POCO support Indexable collections can be done over existing classes. Indexes
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After some flight delays and the normal fun one has while navigating airports, yours truly is back home. Next on the agenda technology-wise is an refresh with a couple of minor bug fixes for i4o , as well as dynamic indexing capability. I found an issue
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Spent some time at the C# booth, managed to catch Hanselman's talk on MVC, caught David Platt's "Why Software Sucks" talk, which was pretty neat and engaging. The latter was interesting for me as I have been of the same opinion for some
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A good presentation, very interesting, but especially worthwhile was the " last day at Microsoft " video and the robot version of Steve Ballmer doing a robot version of the "Developers, Developers, Developers" monkey dance.
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Well, no "Technical Education" yet, but... a.) spent a couple hours practicing my speech for Thursday b.) networked with some folks from MSFT c.) avoided recording embarrassing podcasts :) All in all, mission accomplished!
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