Category: Commentary
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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 […]
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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
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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# […]
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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 […]