This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend and give a workshop at the Continuous Improvement in Software Development, or KaizenConf.  I'm grateful to Scott Bellware and Dave Laribee for organizing this event.  The tone and subject matter at this conference was both refreshing and...

Update: Removed Internal Constructor constraint on AsyncBuilder. As I covered earlier in my post Functional .NET - LINQ or Language Integrated Monads , I talked about using asynchronous computation expressions (monads) from C# 3.0.  Brian McNamara , of the F# team, posted back in May about using...

I'm finally getting back to my concurrency in .NET posts after a brief hiatus after I got sidetracked on various other functional programming issues such as some language oriented programming and functional C#. In the previous post , I talked about MPI in .NET and I need to get back to that one and...

Very recently there has been an ongoing debate between static and dynamically typed languages. Since it seems that there has been some Star Wars references, I thought I'd add my own. I originally wanted to cover this as part of the future of C#, but I think it deserves its own topic. There have been...