I was just setting up Office in my Windows 7 VM, and something happened that I’ve never seen before: the activation process found that I had installed the license too many times and I should therefore call Microsoft on the phone and explain myself. Or something like that. Oddly, this time I had been using a license number that was in fact listed as an Office Professional key in my list of keys from my MSDN subscription. In the VMs, I rarely use anything but Access (to look at mdb files that I …
Yesterday I recorded a video at TechEd about Functional Programming in C#, together with my colleague Gary Short. It’s up on the site now: Functional Programming in C#.
Unfortunately, the quality of the code demo in the video isn’t that great, my apologies for that. I’m not even going to go into what they made me do to the Apple logo on my laptop :-) The info at the end of the video is supposed to read something like this: Oliver Sturm / DevExpress olivers@devexpress.com — oliver@sturmnet.org …
Just a quick note to say that I’ll be traveling to LA tomorrow for a few days in the DevExpress office and TechEd next week! I’ll be doing a vendor session for DevExpress at TechEd (Wednesday afternoon), as well as a birds-of-a-feather talk about functional programming and concurrency, and I’ll record an online tech talk about FP in C#. I’ll keep everybody posted! Meanwhile, if you are at TechEd next week, find me at the DevExpress booth and say hi! I’m going to have stickers for Sod This (my p …
I’ve been using Subversion for many years, probably since 2002 or so, and when I started using it, I imported my existing CVS repository, which contains stuff dating back to 1995 or so. It’s a big and (to me) very valuable archive, especially since I started early on to put all sorts of stuff in there — not just source code, I mean, but rather everything that may be versioned, and that just benefits from being backed up in that repository. All my business paperwork, things like that.
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I did a session on Functional Programming in F# at ACCU conference recently. I had a good time — if you were there, I hope you did, too! Here’s a zip file with the slides and samples for that talk. Quite a bit more than I actually went through in the talk, so have a good look around the content!
ACCU-FPinFS.zip
Just had this conversation in Twitter — well, as much of it as the 140 char limit allows. Somebody (keeping things anonymous here — own up if you want to! :-)) said the best session at the community event WebDD was one where the presenter had trouble with his laptop and couldn’t show any demos. Not the first time I hear something like this — perhaps I wouldn’t be bothered if it was. But most community events these days seem to have one or the other such incident.
Well, I’m afraid I don’t li …
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For a little while now, I’ve been doing a podcast together with Gary Short, which you can find here: http://www.sodthis.com The latest installment is episode 3, where we interview Michael Foord on the topic of dynamic languages. Give it a try, it’s fun!
Thanks to everybody who came to my sessions last week at DevWeek! Here are the downloads of my slides and samples:
Have fun!