On Saturday, May 5, 2012, I will be presenting “Functional Programming for the Masses” at the Great Lakes Functional Programming Conference. This one-day event is
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Dianne writes about her first few days at the Strange Loop conference, including presenting the Scala Koans and which sessions she attended. Read more >> Greetings from the Strange Loop Conference in St. Louis Avoid Duplicating Code It’s great that so many C# and VB.NET developers are taking advantage of LINQ. Unfortunately, using LINQ can encourage you to misuse lambdas. Consider the following simple example: var results = from x in 0.Through(10) select x * x; Square is a useful utility function. It shouldn’t be defined as a lambda [...] Read more >> Don’t Misuse Lambdas Some of the feedback that we’ve received about Elevate has to do with Option types and how they are different or similar to Nullable types in C#. Luke Hoban does a great job of describing some of the differences here: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=470052 If you’ve played around with Option types in F# or another functional language, you [...] Read more >> Option Types vs Nullable Types The past few weeks, a few other SRT Solutions developers and I have been working on a new open source library called Elevate. We went public with the source on CodePlex this weekend, and although we’re still in the early stages of development, I already rely on many of the functional programming features of the [...] Read more >> Introducing Elevate |
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