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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework Beta 2 available on Wednesday

This blog has been abandoned for the longest time :-$ but I’ve got great news to try and re-inaugurate it (again): it’s just been announced that beta 2 for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will be available the day after tomorrow, i.e. on October...

A better way of getting the average salary

Related to my post yesterday in which I tried to show an appealing business sample in F#, David Taylor commented that this: can't possibly be more appealing than this: var averageSalary = companyRoll.Average(e=>e.salary); David is using LINQ of course...

Another new version of the F# compiler (1.9.2.7 and counting...)

In a silent way, last Friday 13th version 1.9.2.7 of the F# compiler was released . This wasn't announced by the "father" or F# , nor in the usual places , I wonder how Mike Gunderloy found out... Anyways, kudos to the Microsoft-*real*-functional-language...

New version of F# available (1.9.1.18)

In the early days of May Don Syme announced the availability of F# 1.9.1.9, hardly a month later and in a silent way version 1.9.1.18 has been released , this new version has a few fixes (some of them important), a few extra keywords (F# 2.0 is on the...

Oracle 10g for Windows Vista released

Oracle has just released a version of its database server specific for Windows Vista, you can download Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.3) Enterprise/Standard Edition for Microsoft Windows Vista (slightly long name). Now, if what you want is to ...

Complete Visual Studio Team System shortcut keys listing

Reading this blog entry , I remembered of the times when my younger brother Alex was the capo of PowerBuilder 6: just to impress you, he would put the mouse in his shirt pocket and then banged through the IDE just with the keyboard with amazing speed...

Programmer fonts, do they matter?

May be I pay attention to silly things, but some fonts are easier to read than others and if you keep writing or reading code during hours and hours, the font that you use may very well affect your productivity (just a theory , besides, far more ridiculous...
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