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during a reply to a thread about design for testability , Pat Maddox wrote something interesting about how the inherent testability in Ruby still does not make up for the lack of design skills: “ Too often I'm finding in the Ruby community we've g...
I always forget the pattern to use to create a functioning MailboxProcessor in F#. I mean, which piece has to be async and how to structure the recursive loop. When I find myself in that kind of a situation situation, my instincts scream at me: “W...
Scott Hanselman
2/12/2010
C# 3.0 introduced the implicit type "var" . I've explained var as saying: "I'm too lazy to tell you the type of this variable, so you figure it out, compiler." However, it's more useful than just promoting terseness or laziness: var i = 10; // imp...
It’s like waiting 43 years for someone to tell you ‘I love you’ back. – Superbowl Pregame Show. What a week. I flew down Saturday morning to join family in the French Quarter. A cousin booked a hotel room with a balcony on Bourbon Street for Super...
MSDN: Visual C# Headlines
2/12/2010
Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), the Task Parallel Library (TPL), thread-safe collections, and coordination and synchronization data structures samples.
On Wednesday night, I spoke at the Greater New Orleans .NET User Group http://www.gnonug.org/ . Thanks to George Mauer for organizing and to our sponsor Antares Technology Solutions for organizing dinner. I was very happy with the turnout, conside...
ADO.NET Team Blog
2/12/2010
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 RC was announced earlier this week on Soma’s blog . Included in this release are a set of improvements in Entity Framework runtime and designer. Here are some of the highlights: Entity Framework Better N-Tie...
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] We shipped the VS 2010 RC on Monday , and have seen some great feedback regarding performance and stability with it. On...
The Angry .Net Developer
2/12/2010
ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Part 1)
If you live in London and work with F#, you should join http://www.meetup.com/FSharpLondon/ Also, if you don’t work with F#, but you’d like too, and you live in London you should join it. Also if you don’t live in London, but you’d like to and you...