This blog has moved. It’s now using b2evolution instead of wordpress, it’s much nicer and cooler and of course sexier! Hm. Maybe not. Ah well…
Anyway, I hope everything works for you! I’ve made an effort to migrate the permanent links correctly, redirect the feed, and all sorts of other things. So hopefully you’ll not even notice (well, apart from this post of course). If you do notice something that’s wrong, please let me know!
As many of you have probably heard at some conference already, I have recently started writing a book for Wrox on “Functional Programming in C#”. I’ll try to blog about the topic a bit more, though I find myself not blogging very much at the moment… too much stuff to do. Anyway, I sat down with Keith and Woody at PDC this year and recorded a podcast on FP in C# — well, on some of the basics at least. If you’re interested, here it is:
Episode #23: Functional Programming in C# with Oliver Stu… …
Here’s a problem that a lot of people are having: iTunes supports gapless playback since version 7.x. Okay, admittedly there are also people who think it’s great — to clarify, my personal negative reaction to it is not strictly about gapless playback as such, but rather about Apple’s implementation approach. Apple seem to assume a number of things:
If you’re a developer, you know the feeling - and if you’re not, I’m sure you can imagine it: you have just written the most amazing little piece of code, and nobody is there to kiss your feet, praise some deity for your existence and generally worship you in the way you deserve. I set out to solve this problem by creating a DXCore plugin for Visual Studio. DXCore is a fantastic product to help you bring round Visual Studio to your point of view, in this case by making it a …
As I wrote previously, I’m using a MacBook now for almost all my daily work. On that post I got some comments about the quality and general availability of software on the platform, so I thought I’d take stock after using it for a while and see what applications I use and where I haven’t found good solutions yet.
Microsoft Office for the Mac is the same enormous package on the Mac that it is on Windows. Well, perhaps not quite as large overall. S …
I tried to install the very nice CopySourceAsHTML (the link hasn’t actually been working for me since yesterday, but I had a download hanging around) plugin on my machine, which has both VS 2005 and VS 2008 (the latter including the new SP1) installed. I chose to install “for everybody”, as I always do — perhaps this makes a difference, I haven’t tried. This is an XP machine.
The plugin didn’t install itself correctly for some reason, not even in VS 2005. I found the file `CopySourceAsHTML200 …
It occurred to me today to look at the feedback that a lot of you have left for the session I did at the NxtGenUG Fest 08 event a few weeks ago. Thanks to everybody who did so, it’s always appreciated!
Now, there are a few points I’d like to comment on - feedback as usual was varied, the overall average not too high… but that’s to be expected, especially with a topic like that in the context of the day. To the 21 people who left an 8 or 9 rating - thanks! There’s not much to say about this s …
On the Mac itself, I have remapped the [[caps lock]] key (does anybody actually use that thing these days?) to [[Command]] (that’s the key with the weird symbol… ah well, one of the keys with weird symbols!). I had always done the same thing on Windows, where it required registry changes, so I was positively surprised to find that on the Mac it’s just a system preferences option… Microsoft, here’s how you do that kind of thing:
Now, whil …