Matthew Podwysocki

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• ALT.NET
• C#
• F#
• Functional Programming
• Lean Software Development
• Ruby
• Spec#
• User Groups

• KaizenConf'08 Functional Programming Presentation Video

  Last week, I provided a basic wrap up of my functional programming talk at the Continuous Improvement in Software Development conference (KaizenConf) in Austin. Little did I realize that I was indeed being filmed while I talked by Mark Leon Watson . So... Posted Nov 12 2008, 08:17 PM by Matthew.Podwysocki with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: C#, Conferences, F#, Functional Programming

• Code Contracts for .NET 4.0 - Spec# Comes Alive

  As I've said in many posts before, I'm a big fan of stating your preconditions, postconditions, invariants and so on explicitly in your code through the use of contracts in the Design by Contract Parlance.  Spec# is a project that came from... Posted Nov 08 2008, 12:33 AM by Matthew.Podwysocki with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: C#, Conferences, Spec#

• KaizenConf - Functional Programming – Is it a game changer?

  Next week at the "Continuous Improvement in Software Development Conference" (KaizenConf), I will be giving a session called "Functional Programming - Is it a game changer?".  In this discussion, I'll cover the basics of functional... Posted Oct 24 2008, 06:18 PM by Matthew.Podwysocki with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: ALT.NET, C#, Conferences, F#, Functional Programming

• DC ALT.NET 10/2008 Recap - A Look at Kanban Software Development

  Thanks to everyone who came out to the DC ALT.NET meeting on "A Look at Kanban Software Development" with Linda Cook.  This was a great discussion about Kanban and continuous improvement with Lean Software Development techniques. ... Posted Oct 23 2008, 06:31 PM by Matthew.Podwysocki with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: ALT.NET, Conferences, Lean Software Development, User Groups

• Richmond Code Camp 2008.2 - Functional C# Recap

  Thanks to everyone who attended my session "Functional C# or how I lost the foreach and learned to love LINQ".  This is still an ongoing passion of mine that I hope to expand upon in the upcoming posts.  Some of these topics include... Posted Oct 07 2008, 06:29 PM by Matthew.Podwysocki with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: C#, Conferences, F#, Functional Programming

• Upcoming Events - Richmond, Ruby DCamp and more

  The next couple of months are pretty busy for me.  There are several items worth noting whether I'm speaking or just plain attending.  This is a great season for community events and chances for continuous improvement.   Richmond Code... Posted Oct 01 2008, 02:05 AM by Matthew.Podwysocki with | with no comments Filed under: ALT.NET, C#, Conferences, F#

• RubyNation - August 1st-2nd

  One of the interesting things happening in the Ruby community is the budding of regional Ruby conferences. The Washington DC area is a pretty strong area for Ruby and Ruby on Rails as we have two Ruby user groups, Northern Virginia Ruby Users Group (NovaRUG... Posted Jun 06 2008, 09:32 AM by Matthew.Podwysocki with | with no comments Filed under: Conferences, Ruby