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Recently Petabridge announced its professional services offerings around Akka.NET.
I’ve been...
The Right Way to do Equality in C#
One of the pitfalls of doing development in C#, Java, C++, or really any predominantly Object Oriented language (OOP) is how “equality” is defined.
In C#, for instance, you have the following methods that are built into every object:
object.Equals- the
==operator ReferenceEquals, for explicitly checking reference equality
My personal opinion: in any managed language, checking for referential equality is a pretty bad default - and if you’re working with immutable objects then equality by reference doesn’t really work.
In C/C++, where pointer arithmetic and knowing the precise location of something in memory matters it’s a different story. Equality by reference is the correct default in that case.
What’s the right thing to do?
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Akka.NET - One Year Later
I originally posted this at Beyond HTTP, Petabridge’s official blog. Read More
My Next Thing: Petabridge - the Future of Distributed Software in .NET
After wrapping up MarkedUp, I took some time...
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In Response to a Letter from a Beginning Programmer
I received a heartfelt response from a new software developer in response to my “What Do You Need to Become an Elite Developer?” blog post. With his permission, I decided to post his letter and my response – with his name omitted.
Hi Aaron,
First, I want to...
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The Next Fork in the Road
I had several friends and advisors review this post prior to publishing it; most encouraged me to go forward with publishing it but others cautioned that future investors / business partners may choose to pass on a deal with me due to the content below. I took time to consider...
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Real-time Marketing Automation with Distributed Actor Systems and Akka.NET
I published a lengthy post on MarkedUp’s blog yesterday about the new product we recently released, MarkedUp In-app Marketing Automation for Windows Desktop (with support for Windows Store, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android planned) and how it uses Akka.NET’s distributed actor system to execute real-time marketing automation...
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The Profound Weakness of the .NET OSS Ecosystem
I’m in the process of writing up a lengthy set of blog posts for MarkedUp about the work that went into developing MarkedUp In-app Marketing, our real-time marketing automation and messaging solution for Windows desktop applications (and eventually WP8, WinRT, iOS, Android, Web, etc…)
During the course of bringing...
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Business to Business Services Are What Will Make Dogecoin Succeed
Following on from my previous post about the second / third generation cryptocurrencies advancing the start of the art, I’ve spent...