I’ve already posted about talking at dotNed in Amsterdam last Thursday, but somehow I forgot to attach the samples and slides from that talk. So here goes:
Concurrency using functional patterns in C#
Have fun!
I’ve already posted about talking at dotNed in Amsterdam last Thursday, but somehow I forgot to attach the samples and slides from that talk. So here goes:
Concurrency using functional patterns in C#
Have fun!
Busy times at Basta in Germany: one workshop and one session down, two sessions and my brilliant game show to go! Since the conference organizers typically take a little while to make the materials available themselves — hundreds of sessions, so that’s to be expected — here are the downloads for all my sessions here. I hope you’ll still come in and take a look :-)
I was in Amsterdam yesterday and did a talk for the dotNed user group on functional programming in C#. It’s always a great topic to talk about, and as usual everybody was very interested. We spent a bit more time on the Parallel Extensions than I was anticipating — the main reason I even start explaining Parallel Extensions is that I want to point out where their functionality ends — but that was fine. I think I was able to answer a bunch of questions on that, which is always a good thing. …
My friend John recently asked me about a visual element for his web site here. It was supposed to look like a scroller sort of thingy that should show stuff. Brilliant, eh? I couldn’t readily come up with a suggestion that would satisfy all those requirements, so I looked into creating something for him. Of course, being the cheap bastard that I am, I wanted to use Flash for this (oh sure, there’s Silverlight, but it always appears to be out of date on my own machine, and I’m afraid its market …
I’m going to be speaking at the CodeCamp in Krakow, Poland, on October 17th. Looks like a very cool event with a great speaker lineup, and best of all it’s free! So if you are in Poland around that time, I suggest you drop by and say hi — you can learn stuff about F# from me, incidentally, and of course I’m always happy to meet DevExpress customers and talk about our products. Hope to see you there!
I’ve had a lot of trouble with external hard drives in the past. Sometimes the things just broke, sometimes they seemed to break and behaved wildly irregular — working one time, then nothing the next moment, or working with one machine and not with the other. A symptom I’ve observed several times with drives that were “not working” is that there’s a regular “clicking” noise coming from the drive when plugged in, as if it’s trying to get the mechanics working without success.
One of the things …
It’s weird: in Vista, a lot of people were always complaining about the way UAC interrupted their lives. I didn’t think it was a big deal at all, it just didn’t bother me. Now in Windows 7… well… I’m not sure what it is, but I find UAC a bit odd now. The reason is simple: it continuously pops up when I don’t expect it, causing me to waste time. For instance, I run an installer and go through 8 wizard pages, and I click the final “will you please get on with that installation, FFS” button, I …
So, I got fed up with this issue now and found a solution that isn’t pretty. But it works, apparently without any relevant disadvantages, so I’ll live with it for the time being.
Update: in the comments below there’s a different, somewhat cleaner solution, which doesn’t require you to change your “system” Python files. [SORRY, COMMENT REMOVED]
Yesterday I posted about the problem: offlineimap quits with a “trace trap”, which occurs when the line from _locale import * is executed. For fu …