Roughly based on the original concept for the Developer Developer Developer day, both Ireland and Scotland are getting their own DDDs for the first time in 2008. Some slight differences in organization, but great content and speakers nevertheless — see the agendas here for Ireland and here for Scotland. May 3rd (Ireland) and May 10th (Scotland) are the dates, and I’m sure it’s going to be great!

Find the registration page for DDD Ireland here and the one for DDD Scotland here. Hope to see you …

I’m really undecided about the Vista start menu… since I’ve started using Vista, I’ve had several different approaches for running applications:

1. Some applications run automatically when I log on to Windows
2. Some applications I run manually after most logins, like e.g. Outlook. I have icons for those in the Quick Launch toolbar.
3. I use SlickRun to run those applications I use most regularly, but which are not running all the time. The Quick Launch toolbar also has icons for some other …

So here they are, the slides and samples of that Functional Programming in C# 3.0 session. My apologies for the slight delay - I already received a few emails about it - but my flight home was cancelled yesterday and everything was a bit chaotic.

Functional Programming in C# 3.0

Have fun!

Thanks to everybody who attended my session at DevWeek! I hope you liked it, I certainly had a lot of fun doing it.

First of all, here’s the download of slides and samples from the session: Functional Programming in C# 3.0

Second, I’ve had a little thought about that example I was asked about during the session. It was one of the methods in the first basic example, and it looks like this:

public static IEnumerable GetAllMemb ...

The computer arrived back here yesterday, with a new motherboard and a screen cleaning cloth in apology for my troubles. Allegedly it had also been “thoroughly cleaned”, but I don’t think so — it wasn’t extremely dirty anyway, but the dust that gathers on the sides of the keys (the keyboard is a bit weird that way, hard to describe) was still there.

Anyway, and more importantly, the computer worked. So good work on that, Sony, and the turnaround was good as well! For some reason the support g …

There was a bit of a confusion last week, when the DHL guy didn’t have all the details — apparently the Sony guys were expecting the machine to come in the next day and when it didn’t, they called me to ask why the pickup had gone wrong. Well, I had already received the receipt from DHL by then and I called them to tell them so, but by that time they had already received the machine and it was scheduled for repair. That was Thursday last week.

I went to Germany for Cebit on Friday, and in the …

My talk yesterday at Scottish Developers in Edinburgh went fine — the meeting wasn’t huge, but I had the impression that the topic was interesting to everybody. If you were there, thank you again, and please feel free to contact me if you come up with questions!

Here’s the download of slides and samples from that event: BusinessAppsWithWPFScottishDevs.zip

Update: I noticed that the slides were not in the download — my apologies ab …

Just a short update: the DHL guy just left. He did bring a box and a plastic bag to package the machine, as I was promised by the support guy yesterday, but he claimed I should have all the information that goes on the various stickers for the package… well, I don’t. The Sony guy had told me that DHL would have all they need to handle things. Anyway, he took the package away, promised to deal with all the paper work later and return a receipt to me tomorrow (or so). I would have been hesitant …