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Introducing Maestro – A DSL for Actor Based Concurrency by podwysocki

As you may have noticed from my blog, there is a big interest in concurrency. Along with that, I’ve made my way into Actor model based concurrency including such forays into Erlang , the Haskell-Actor package , Mailbox Processing in F#, and even such...

How would the CLR Be Different? by podwysocki

UPDATED: Added improved generics with higher-kinded polymorphism There was a good discussion on Twitter a couple of nights ago that arose due to some issues that with an expression that might return a value, or might not (void) and how you handle them...
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What Is the Future of C# Anyways? by podwysocki

It was often asked during some of my presentations on F# and Functional C# about the future direction of C# and where I think it's going. Last night I was pinged about this with my F# talk at the Philly ALT.NET meeting. The question was asked, why bother...
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Thinking in Concurrently in .NET by podwysocki

In recent posts, you've found that I've been harping on immutability and side effect free functions. There is a general theme emerging from this and some real reasons why I'm pointing it out. One of the things that I'm interested in is concurrent programming...
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CMAP Code Camp Wrap Up - Dependency Injection and IoC Containers by podwysocki

I really enjoyed speaking at this past weekend's CMAP Code Camp. I hope you all enjoyed my presentation on "Loosen Your Dependencies with Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Containers". It was a great discussion to have with everyone and I...

xUnit.net RC3 Just Released by podwysocki

Well, Brad Wilson and Jim Newkirk must really be busy lately. After I talked about the release of xUnit.net RC2, just today, Brad announced the release of RC3. As always, you can find the latest bits here . This fixes a number of bugs and adds CruiseControl...
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RockNUG IoC Container Presentation Wrapup by podwysocki

I want to thank the fine folks at the Rockville .NET Users Group (RockNUG) and Dean Fiala for giving me the opportunity to speak last night. It was a record crowd last night, so I'm glad that people were interested in Loose Coupling, Design Patterns,...

Unity 1.0 Released into the Wild by podwysocki

As Chris Tavares mentioned in his blog , Unity 1.0 has been released a couple of days earlier than the April 7th release date mentioned by Grigori Melnik earlier. Scott Densmore also announced this as well as working on porting the inteception from ObjectBuilder2...
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Covering NUnit 2.4.7 by podwysocki

It's interesting that a flurry of releases of testing frameworks have been released lately with Gallio , xUnit.net and of course NUnit . Charlie Poole recently announced on a lot of the discussion boards I belong to recently that NUnit 2.4.7 was recently...
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xUnit.net RC2 Released by podwysocki

UPDATE: More posts on the subject xUnit.net RC3 Just Released Relooking at xUnit.net RC2 UPDATE: xUnit.NET RC2 New Drop includes ASP.NET MVC support and better GUI runner. Details here . UPDATE: Added Static Methods mention and F# - Thanks to DevHawk...
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