Csharp on 7sharp9

Anything you can do ...

7sharp9@mail.com (Dave Thomas) — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

For any of you that are aware of the newly updated Xamarin Web site, you may have seen the following:

Objective-C was ahead of its time 30 years ago. C# is ahead of its time today. Anything you can do in Objective-C or Java, you can do in C# with Xamarin—usually more succinctly and with fewer bugs.

Can I have some F# with that?

7sharp9@mail.com (Dave Thomas) — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

There’s been a fair bit of activity lately from a project called ScriptCS, it allows you to put together a project using C# as a lightweight scripting language, forgoing the use of Visual Studio which can sometimes be too bloated and bulky.

Monster Zero - Revisited

7sharp9@mail.com (Dave Thomas) — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This creature is capable of tremendous destruction due to it’s size, flight (with the creature’s wings also generating hurricane strength winds) and possesses several breath weapons (e.g., heat and energy).

What am I talking about here? Maybe it’s Monster Zero or King Ghidorah as it’s sometimes known. No it’s TPL Dataflow!

Some kind of monster

7sharp9@mail.com (Dave Thomas) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

What’s 100 meters high and weighs in at around 60,000 tons? No its not Godzilla, its Reactive extensions!

Lately on one of my projects I have been doing a lot of stream manipulation, and although I solved the problem quite easily using F# async workflows, there were other solutions available to help solve the problem. I could of used things like async await, TPL Dataflow(TDF), and Reactive Extensions (Rx). This is going to be a short post on using Rx with F#.

I node something (Bout You)

7sharp9@mail.com (Dave Thomas) — Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

What is Edge.js?
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Unless you live in a hole you have probably heard of node.js so I’ll not bother to explain what it is or what it does. An interesting project has come to light lately, namely Edge.js. The Edge.js project allows you to connect node.js with .Net.

iOS async revisited

7sharp9@mail.com (Dave Thomas) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

In this post weare going to look as async again, but from the perspective of F#.

Xamarin Evolve 2013
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I have been watching the Xamarin Evolve conference this week and it was good to see Miguel announce full support for F#. Those that follow me on twitter etc, will know that I have been doing F# for quite a while in MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio. The new support currently entails some new project templates so that you can easily create epic new F# Apps without having to refer to my blog. While its sad that my content now falls into the archives its nice to get official support announced in such a grand fashion.

A little bit of iOS async

7sharp9@mail.com (Dave Thomas) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I was going to title this post as ‘Now for something completely different’ but felt that a little bit too Pythonesque, and when I thought about it a bit it isn’t really completely just slightly different, namely C# rather than my usual F# posts.

Whats in your toolbox?

7sharp9@mail.com (Dave Thomas) — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

If I walk into my garage now and open up a toolbox, whats inside?

Here’s a quick selection:

Ball-peen hammer
Jointer plane
1/2 inch mortise chisel
Soldering iron
Set square
Low angle block plane
Torx screw drivers
Hack saw
Monkey wrench
Pipe cutter

Notice it doesn’t just contain:

Back to the Primitive II

7sharp9@mail.com (Dave Thomas) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In the last post I discussed an asynchronous version of the ManualResetEvent and as promised this time we will be looking at an asynchronous version of the AutoResetEvent. I’m using Stephen Toubs post as reference and we will be building a version that is functional in style that maps straight into asynchronous work flows without and conversion or adaptors.

Black-Scholes Taste Test

7sharp9@mail.com (Dave Thomas) — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In this edition we are going to be doing a taste test, C# vs F#. Oh yeah, if you quickly glanced at the title you may have thought this was a recipe for black scones, as interesting and tasty as that may be, unfortunately its going to be finance related.

From C# to F#: A Developer's Perspective

7sharp9@mail.com (Dave Thomas) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I recently wrote an article for Developer Fusion on the changes in mindset required when moving from C# to F#.

The article has proved to be more more popular than I envisaged. I think a lot of .Net developers are interested in F# but are unsure on the path to take when trying to accomplish this. For me it was almost a leap of faith, I saw the potential benefits and just jumped right in.