In the past, I've covered a bit about object oriented programming in F#.  I'd like to come back to that series as there is much yet to cover on this topic.  Last week, I spent some time with Erik Meijer at QCon and he and I both agreed that in some ways, F# is a better object oriented...

Lately, I've been talking about the new feature coming to .NET 4.0, Code Contracts , which is to bring Design by Contract (DbC) idioms to all .NET languages as part of the base class library.  Last week, I attended QCon, where Greg Young, one of my CodeBetter cohorts, gave a talk titled "TDD...

Previously, when covering some of the additions to the .NET 4.0 Framework such as optional and named parameters , some of the other additions have caught my eye from the perspective of functional programming.  Unlike .NET 3.5, this release is not as targeted towards functional programming as it...

After my recent post on the introduction of Code Contracts in .NET 4.0 , I got some strong reaction that they would rather rely on TDD, or the better term, Example Driven Development specifications to ensure correctness.  Instead, it's my intent to talk about how they can complement each other...

Last week, I provided a basic wrap up of my functional programming talk at the Continuous Improvement in Software Development conference (KaizenConf) in Austin. Little did I realize that I was indeed being filmed while I talked by Mark Leon Watson . So, without further ado, enjoy the first 20 minutes...

As I've said in many posts before, I'm a big fan of stating your preconditions, postconditions, invariants and so on explicitly in your code through the use of contracts in the Design by Contract Parlance.  Spec# is a project that came from Microsoft Research as a language based upon C#...

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend and give a workshop at the Continuous Improvement in Software Development, or KaizenConf.  I'm grateful to Scott Bellware and Dave Laribee for organizing this event.  The tone and subject matter at this conference was both refreshing and...

In my previous post , I talked very briefly about both named and option parameters.  Now, I'd like to go a little deeper into the subject to see what this looks like underneath the covers.  As before, we'll look at the limitations as well that we faced in the previous post.   ...

Many interesting news is coming from PDC this week.  Part of the announcements was around Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 CTP.  Microsoft has made available, a Virtual PC Image preloaded with Visual Studio. You can download the preview information here: Microsoft Pre-release Software...

Next week at the "Continuous Improvement in Software Development Conference" (KaizenConf), I will be giving a session called "Functional Programming - Is it a game changer?".  In this discussion, I'll cover the basics of functional programming, moving from an imperative style...