Now that the F# CTP is out, you may be wondering what I think of it. Well I’m planning to tell you in a later post, first let me explain what I’ve been up to: If you’re a follower of this blog you’ve probably noticed that there hasn’t been a lot of activity lately (apart from the short announcement about JAOO.dk). This is largely due to the fact I’ve moved house and have been doing a lot of gardening and DIY lately. I haven’t been entirely slack on the code front, I’ve started a couple of new projects, which probably deserve...

La prochain réunion d’alt.net de Paris aura lieu mercredi 4 juin, 20h00 à le « Le Café des Initiés », 3, Place des Deux Ecus, 75001 Paris. Moi, Julien et Symon sera là, et vous ? ---- The next meeting of alt.net Paris will take place on Wednesday 4th June at the “Café des Inities”, 3, Place des Deux Ecus, 75001 Paris. Symon, Julien and I will be there, will you?

Although the performance counters built into the CLR give you a pretty good handle on what’s going, there’s nothing quite like having your own counters to help you monitor your applications performance. There’s nothing quite like being able to see your own counters alongside the build in ones in perfmon. There are several things that make this a little tricky, first you must install your counter to make it visible to perfmon, then you need to create instances of the counters for the application to use, finally you need to remove your counters when there done with to ensure old...

La première réunion a très bien passé, nous étions cinq, pas mal pour une réunion organisé en moins qu’une semaine. On s’est vu dans le « frog et rosbif », peut-être pas le meilleur choisi de lieu, normalement j’aime bien cette pub, mais ce soir là ils ont eu un match de foot à la télé et c’était trop bruyant. Donc, on a bu un verre d’hors de la pub et on est allé au « les têtes brûlées » juste à côté qui était plus calme et plus agréable. On a beaucoup discuté NHibernant, qui était très utilise pour moi, parce que je ne...

Le mouvement alt.net s’agit de un groupe  des développeurs qui s’organisent eux-mêmes et qui sont intéressés par l’amélioration du processus de la création de logiciel. Ils sont intéressés par des outils .NET open source comme nunit, nant, et cruisecontrol.net mais surtout dans des techniques comme « agile », « test driven development », et « design patterns ». Après le réussit de leur conférence global à Seattle il y a un vague des groupes locale qui s’organise, et donc des adhérents de la liste alt.net parisien ont décidé de organise un alt.net de Paris. La première réunion d’alt.net de Paris aura lieu mercredi 30 avril, 20h00 à le...

When I saw that IronRuby had been released I thought I’d put it through its paces seeing how the language preformed with respect to IronPython and of course F#. Perhaps a little unfair for a number of reasons, firstly this is a pre-alpha release so one can’t really expect much, we need to give it time to mature and two, ruby generally performs slow than python in the “Computer Language Bench Mark Game”,  (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/) so one wouldn’t really except IronRuby to outperform either IronPython or F#. However I thought what the heck and downloaded the source for the ruby bench...

“Comparisons are odious” as my Mum used to say, but I hope this little comparison doesn’t pong too much. I have a range a little competitions of my own, a language bench mark, based on “The Computer Language Benchmarks Game” (http://shootout.alioth.debian.org), between IronPython and F#, with measurements for C# thrown in as a kind of control group. I would have liked to chuck in the new IronRuby language too, but I had problems finding a current release. This was largely inspired by the benchmarks Ben Jackson posted to the hubfs.net (http://cs.hubfs.net/forums/thread/3196.aspx), thanks Ben! Now obviously as an author of a book...

Today was I was on holiday, doing a « faire le ponte » between the weekend and the public holiday toussaint (all saints day). I had chance to get lots of little jobs out of the way, such as tidying the garden and making the Christmas puddings. In between that I installed Visual Studio 2005 RTM on my laptop as apposed to a virtual machine.   So I thought I’d also take some time to write up some notes on things that I have noticed reflecting over generic types in framework version 2.0. In, what I shall...

This is an explanation of why the var “keyword” is like it is, and how this effects anonymous classes. I should probably point out I’m nothing to do with the C# design team, so these are merely my own opinions.   The var is all about type inference, it’s important to remember this is still static typing. The var keyword informs the compiler that it should try and infer the type of variable; if it can not do this a compile error is generated. One very important aspect of the var keyword is that it...

Last night we ate at the palace kitchen, why? Because Don Box recommended it to us! And very good it was too, we enjoyed a nice bottle of west coast red wine, which even my French friend Eric thought was good.   Anyway when our small party met him he was in the middle of a discussion with another Microsoft guy about xaml. They were talking about the possibility of using xaml to generate in memory only assemblies, of course while this is fun it does raise all sort of security issues, so Don suggest...