While I’ve done a lot of things that I now regret, I can say that I’ve been somewhat blessed to have learned from some of my mistakes.  So please believe that this advice comes from sad experience and that I’m just trying to help some folks avoid the care[...]

I can't tell you what makes a senior developer but I can tell you what separates a lot of juniors from the seniors.

. . . it's interesting to see the number of efforts to build new languages on old vm's . . .

We were discussing agile today and I came up with something that I thought might be worth sharing with others. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract neg[...]

I’m sure most developers reading this post will be familiar with the term “premature optimization”. For those who may not be familiar, this refers to the tendency that some developers have to worrying about the performance of their code, usually but not a[...]

One of the perverse side effects of code that’s “the simplest thing that could possibly work” is that it can appear much easier to create than it actually was.  I refer to this as Athena Code because it can appear as if the code sprung full-grown and read[...]

I have been a vocal advocate of F# for a long time. I’ve shared some of my little interesting discoveries in the language from time to time. I’ve been trying to help other .Net developers to see what a great, cool language F# is. I’ve tried to add intelli[...]

While I’m thinking about it, another quick comment.  If you’re asked to RSVP to a meetup, user group, etc. please do not say “I’ll attend” unless you’re sure you’ll attend.  As dumb as it sounds we have a few people around the Metro Detroit area (not nami[...]

So I want to capture these thoughts while I can for whatever value they may have to myself or others in the future. Last night we did a coding dojo on building Android apps with F#.  Reluctantly, after a little cajoling from a co-worker I decided to add a[...]

I often think of why I feel that it’s important to have a functional language—not just write code that’s pseudo-functional in an imperative language.  As I think this through, I wanted to record some of my ideas on the subject. Even the best developers I’[...]