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Monday, November 28, 2011 12:05 AM

First impressions of Scala

I have an idea that it may be possible to predict build success/failure based on commit data. Why Scala? It’s a JVM language, has lots of powerful type features, and it has a linear algebra library which I’ll need later. Project definition and build Neither...
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Saturday, April 10, 2010 2:52 PM

Tracking My Internet Provider Speeds

Of late, our broadband internet has been feeling sluggish. A call to the company took way more hold-time than I wanted to spend, and it only fixed the problem for a short while. Thus a perfect opportunity to play with some new tech to solve a problem...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:29 PM

Samples and Slides from Alt.Net Meet up on the Reactive Extensions

The code samples and PowerPoint deck from my presentation on the RX to the New York ALT.NET group are available (and updated) on MSDN Code samples: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/RxDemos And the slide deck
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Sunday, January 10, 2010 11:40 PM

The Anonymous Implementation pattern (as seen in the Reactive Extensions)

There’s a pattern used in the Reactive Extensions that I’m calling the Anonymous Implementation. You can see it in use on IObservable’s one method IDisposable Subscribe(IObserver<T> observer); Given an Observable which you want to subscribe to,...
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Monday, May 04, 2009 1:13 PM

Some interesting sessions at the Microsoft Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference

  There are some interesting sessions at the 2009 EntDevCon .   Three of particular interest to me are are 1. “Coral8 Engine Integrated with Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008”  at 11 on Tuesday. I had a chance to see some of the early bits...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:00 PM

Adding var args support to office integration functions with dynamic lambda expressions

Anyone who’s ever done office integration has come across a method definition like so: object Run(object Macro, object Arg1, object Arg2, …, object Arg30); if you're working in VB it’s not such an issue, and rumor has it that it’s that C# 4 will also...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 8:22 AM

Catalog of User Experience Patterns

Via Brad Abrams , check out this great site: Quince: a catalog of UX design patterns .
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Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:14 PM

Creating high performance WCF services

I had a WCF service where I wanted to be able to support over a hundred concurrent users, and while most of the service methods had small payloads which returned quickly, the startup sequence needed to pull down 200,000 records. The out of the box WCF...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:03 AM

Scheduling PowerShell tasks without a console window

Have you every wanted to use Windows Task Scheduler to run a PowerShell script on a frequent schedule, but hated how the console window would flash on the screen every time the script ran? Yeah, me too. Apparently the task scheduler API supports hiding...
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Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:40 AM

F# and CEP

At the last New York .Net Meetup , Luke Hoban presented an overview of F#. Like everyone else who's catching the F# bug I was quite impressed with its succinctness, sequences, forward pipes, and support for asynchronous programming (called workflows)...
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