programming

• 31 Dec 2019

  How to use REPL and Scripting in F#

  Lately I’ve been looking into using F# in Jupyter Notebooks. I downloaded it and attempted to follow the tutorials...
• 29 Dec 2019

  Getting Started With BenchmarkDotNet

  BenchmarkDotNet is a great library for performance testing on the dotnet platform. On this blog I’ve used it to be...
• 26 Dec 2019

  Getting Started with Elmish

  I’ve been learning F# lately and have been wondering what the F# in the browser experience is like. There are seve...
• 20 Dec 2019

  Introduction to F# Type Providers

  This post is one of many in the FSAdvent Calendar. A December’s worth of blog articles all about FSharp. Many than...
• 03 Dec 2019

  The Difference Between IEnumerable and IQueryable Explained

  This post is part of this year’s C# Advent Series. Which counts down to Christmas with two C# articles published e...
• 23 Nov 2019

  Benchmarking For Loop Variants

  I read Thomas Levesque’s recent post about Using foreach with an index. I’ve definitely run into the problem...
• 16 Nov 2019

  Explaining Implicit Conversion Operators in C#

  Sometime ago at work, I discovered a class that could automatically convert to and from a string whenever it was needed....
• 14 Nov 2019

  Under the Hood of C# Alias Types and Namespaces

  C# has two different ways to refer to a lot of its fundamental types. String or string, Boolean or bool, Int32 or int, c...
• 09 Nov 2019

  Explaining Async Programming With Pizza

  Asynchronous programming. It means so many things to so many people. When first learning async programming, it’s e...
• 26 Oct 2019

  EF Core’s AddAsync v. Add Method

  Since learning about async programming with C#, if I’m presented with an option of async v. non-async method I&rsq...
• 19 Oct 2019

  Add Swagger to a .NET Core 3.0 API

  If you’ve ever interacted with an API, you know that it can be messy. Does it support json or xml? How should I co...
• 12 Oct 2019

  How to Write a Brainfuck Interpreter in C#

  I’ve always been somewhat interested in how programming languages are written. Last month I bought my version is i...
• 05 Oct 2019

  .Net Core 3.0 AddControllers() Method

  In case you haven’t heard, .Net Core 3.0 has now been released! So many things are now available as part of this r...
• 29 Sep 2019

  C# Design Patterns: The Visitor Pattern

  My last article introduced expressions in C# and explained a bit why they were useful. Today I’m going to build up...
• 22 Sep 2019

  An Introduction to C# Expression Trees

  Expression Trees are an interesting C# language feature that you might not have knowingly used before. Expression Trees ...
• 15 Sep 2019

  The Cost of Synchronous Async Methods

  C# 5 introduced the async/await keywords and dramatically increased how easy it was to program asynchronously. The first...
• 08 Sep 2019

  Pure v. Impure Functions

  Pure and Impure functions is a very important distinction in functional programming. Most of my university and early wor...