Software. Startups. Outer Space.
Over the past week there’s been a ton of chatter about the state of the .NET ecosystem and, more specifically, as to whether or not its OSS ecosystem is healthy and sustainable over the long term.
I won’t bother with the details, but the substantive criticisms amount to:
This is largely the text of an issue I posted related to the .NET Foundation’s new proposed Maturity Ladder for .NET OSS projects. I am fully supportive of the .NET Foundation’s stated mission and wrote this in the hopes of trying to help it achieve that through a little...
In my professional life, I’ve actively conditioned myself to tolerate and accept risks when necessary. Risk tolerance is something that can be learned and taught. But risk tolerance is fundamentally a contextual matter - two people with identical means and skills can have totally different reactions to the stressors...
Chief among the values prized by fellow millennials is comfort. It’s reflected in our more casual dress and our increasing preference for impersonal forms of communication, such as text or Slack. Our desire to form self-reinforcing informational and social bubbles, where we can limit our exposure to different and potentially...
It was roughly a year ago this week that I fled California in pursuit of greener economic pastures. I came to Texas an economic refugee; despite running a successful business in California for a number of years I watched my profit steadily fall beneath the relentless tide of cost of...
I spend a lot of my professional time training other software developers on how to build next-generation applications. Distributed and concurrent systems; stream processing; stateful web applications; soft real-time applications; and so forth. Cutting edge stuff for the majority of my industry.
One of the huge advantages of inexperience, such...
There’s been ample grumbling about various changes in the .NET ecosystem of late, but I’m more excited about .NET than ever.
First, the decoupling of .NET from Windows. Mono started this work in earnest 15 years ago, and .NET Core + UWP is the next step. Turning .NET into...
So, BUILD 2017 has come and gone and lots of new exciting updates have been announced or made available for preview in .NET-land, most notably the preview release of .NET Core 2.0.
However, the issue that grabbed the attention of many of the developers in the...
This is the second post in a 3-part series on property-and-model based testing in FsCheck in C#.
This is the first post in a 3-part series on property-and-model based testing in FsCheck in C#.