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Slides and samples from Basta! Spring 2017

February 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

This year’s Basta! Spring was another great conference — thank you very much to all of you who came to my workshop and my presentations! All the sample content and the slides I used in my ... [continue reading]

Being Functional at the London .NET User Group

May 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Yesterday I presented my talk “Being Functional” to the London .NET User Group. First of all: thanks to Dylan and Ian and whoever else was involved for organizing this event and inviting ... [continue reading]

Slides and Samples From SDD 2016

May 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Last week I spoke at SDD 2016 in London. As usual, it was a well organized and attended event – thank you Nick for having me once again! Here are the slides and samples for my two talks: ... [continue reading]

Thank You, Microsoft!

April 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

It just arrived in my inbox: my tenth MVP award. It’s been a whole decade – unbelievable, I feel old now. In spite of my frequent biting criticism, Microsoft has decided to re-award me. I ... [continue reading]

Linux on Windows. That’s LOW.

March 31, 2016 // 2 Comments

Interesting announcement from Build: Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10 So, what’s that all about? Things seem very unclear to me at the moment, but ... [continue reading]

Funktionales C# für Fortgeschrittene

March 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

The online publication Informatik Aktuell has just published a German language article I wrote for them on topics of functional programming in C#. Read it here: Funktionales C# für ... [continue reading]

Is ProtonMail the future? Some thoughts.

March 18, 2016 // 2 Comments

ProtonMail finally went public today. They promise secure storage and handling of email, and who wouldn’t want that? Anybody who’s looking for some added privacy in light of all the big ... [continue reading]

Functional C# library on github and NuGet

March 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

I finally got round to something today that has been waiting for a very long time: I published my Functional C# library FCSlib on github and NuGet. I first started working on parts of this back in ... [continue reading]

Airport Express on Virgin broadband – and Virgin Super Hub troubles

March 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Isn’t it strange how things always go wrong all at the same time? I’m fighting a weird issue right now, which started this morning: my Mac suddenly seems to freeze and react to UI events ... [continue reading]

Staying On Top of DevExpress Updates

March 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

At DevExpress, we frequently hear about issues customers have with our updates. I personally hear about these when I teach our training classes or meet customers at events. I felt like saying a few ... [continue reading]