Jason Rowe

Be curious! Choose your own adventure.

Category: Commentary

  • The most dreaded technology

    The 2015 Stack Overflow developer survey results are published and this year the most dreaded technology was Salesforce. If you are getting started with Salesforce as a developer don’t panic. I’ve recently completed a large integration project and I’ll try to highlight some of the things I’ve learned along the way. I’m not an expert […]

  • Introduction to Git using VS tools from Microsoft

    A quick introduction to Git version control system and Visual Studio Tools from Microsoft. Links in the video git-scm.com try.github.com tortoisegit VS2012 Git Plugin gitextensions

  • Shiny New Toys, Visitor Pattern, and Real World Functional Programming

      Last week in the office I thought to my self, “Holiday weekend coming! I’ll have time to play with WP7 or maybe I’ll play with HTML5”. Then I saw this tweet on twitter. We as developers spend too much time playing with baubles and shiny new tools and not enough time on core skills […]

  • Sending Email and Bounce Handling Rules

    While listening to Stack Overflow Podcast 83 I was happy to hear I was not the only one that found sending email complicated. The act of sending mail is also incredibly complicated because spammers have abused the infrastructure for a decade. There are a few immune responses that are still effective, such as DKIM and […]

  • Turing’s Lambda Notation

    I’m still working through Turing’s paper on Computability and the Turing Machine.  I am at the end and reading the appendix on Alonzo Church’s equivalent approach using Lambda Calculus.   His work is so familiar to most programmers since we use the concepts in C, C++, Java, and C#.   I decided to use C# […]

  • Book Review: A Mathematical Journey In Code

    The book In Code has a nice down to earth feel, which is surprising, since it is about cryptography.  The book summarizes Sarah Flannery’s journey from learning puzzles as a child to creating the Cayley-Purser (CP) algorithm at the age of 16. The CP algorithm created by Sarah won her both the Ireland’s Young Scientist […]