Code rant

OK, that’s a provocative title to get your attention. This post is really about how one can move to a more functional programming style and ...

Streams are a very nice abstraction over a read/write loop. We can use them to represent the contents of a file, or a stream of bytes to or ...

If you have logic that relies on the current system date, it's often difficult to see how to unit test it. But by injecting a function t...

In my last post I showed a simple F# OWIN self hosted server without an application framework. Today I want to show an even simpler exampl...

I’m still very much an F# noob, but yesterday I thought I’d use it to write a little stub web service for a project I’m currently working on...

TL:DR Successive, well intentioned, changes to architecture and technology throughout the lifetime of an application can lead to a fragmente...

I’m on a sales drive. I want to move away from daily-rate contracting, and focus on full-lifecycle project delivery. I’ve created a new webs...

TL:DR You can not observe a developer without altering their behavior. First a story. Several years ago I worked on a largish project...

I’m working on an exciting new project at the moment. The main UI element is a management console built with AngularJS that communicates wi...

I haven’t contracted through an agency for a long time, but I thought I’d write up my experiences from almost ten years of working as an IT ...