Code rant

Being both a long-time .NET developer and Linux hobbyist, I was very excited about the recent ‘go live’ announcement for CoreCLR on Linux (a...

TL;DR: All the evidence shows that programming requires a high level of aptitude that only a small percentage of the population possess. The...

My recent post, C# Program Entirely With Static Methods , got lots of great comments. Indeed, as is often the case, the comments are in many...

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...