New CQRS Book! Starts With Some Heavy Drinking with Greg Young

Saturday, September 14th, 2013

What happens when you go to an ALT.NET open conference in Vancouver with Bob and go drinking with Greg Young? The obvious outcome is that on Saturday night you find yourself in a bar with Greg and some others drinking way more that is really advisable. Turns out that ...

Writing A Programming Book

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

Really you should do yourself a huge favor. The next time one of your friends suggests you write a book, just ignore them. That’ll also save you the onerous task of reading the rest of this post. Still reading? Oh dear. Well I guess I feel compelled to inflict ...

What’s up Buttercup?

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

There’s not been a lot of blogging going on of late… We’re in the final stages of shipping LINQ to HPC (an RC is now available). I’ve been writing samples and documentation, basically dumping what’s in my head into something that the rest of the world can read. Writing is ...

The Adventures of a Manager

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

Need something to go with that $4 latte? For 99c you can have the collected wisdom of one of the best, if not the best manager I’ve ever worked with. That’s with, not for. If your manager is really any good you feel like you’re working with them not for ...

Get patterns & practices Books Cheap!

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

In honor of the patterns & practices Symposium happening this week in Redmond. Today a whole bunch of patterns & practices titles are the O’Reilly’s Ebook Deal of the Day today (Tuesday 18th October). Pick up the some EBooks for less than the price of a pound of ...