Archive for September, 2009

Agile Vancouver – Much Ado About Agile IV

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

I speaking on “Distributed Agile Development” at Much Ado About Agile IV on Tuesday November 5th. Registration is now open and costs $190-350 CDN. My last conference in Vancouver was ALT.NET Canada in June. It was a blast, I learnt a lot and got to talk to some great people. So ...

N-Body Modeling Pages Online

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

So I finally got around to putting some pages up about n-body modeling (link in nav bar above). Even if you’re not into numerical simulations, physics or any of that stuff some of the mixed language aspects of the code might be of interest. I’m not really ...

PDC 2009: Patterns of Parallel Programming Facebook page

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

I’ve created a Patterns of Parallel Programming Facebook page… We’ll be posting updates to this page in the next couple of months before PDC. If you’re planning on attending the workshop itself or just PDC then sign up. I’d really like to get some ideas as to ...

PDC 2009: Patterns of Parallel Programming Resources

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

A while back I wrote about Parallel Computing: The Old new Thing. One of the things p&p is doing to help developers be successful in this space is to talk about the underlying patterns. We’re running a workshop at PDC as a first step in this effort. The preCon sessions ...

Gotchas: Adding Attributes to Properties on Interfaces in F#

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

I ran into a couple of issues when writing an F# class to be consumed by C#. Specifically when it came to adding attributes to a property declared on an interface. You would expect the following code to decorate the SofteningLength property with the Dependency and DefaultValue attributes: ...