Rikard Ottosson on software, systems and the people around them
When fiddling with database relations in an Azure database you quickly notice you are on your own in terms of tooling in a way that you’re not used to from Microsoft. Metadata however is available so you can work around …
I am in no way affiliated with the brilliant blog of the name http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/. I wish I was, but no, I just remembered the phrase and used it as a headline, sorry.It is …
Since I last wrotehttp://opinionmachine.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/oredev/ "Øredev" about our most excellent conference Øredevhttp://oredev.org/2013 "Øredev Conference 2013", there have been a few announcements. Go check o…
I had to google myself silly and the page I ended up finding was so hard to find I couldn’t actually find it again to link to it properly. The below code is not my idea, so if you feel wronged, submit your link and I sha…
Early Bird campaign ends in two weeks, Aug 15http://oredev.org/2013 "Early Bird campaign ends in two weeks, Aug 15"…
I have noticed some people come to this blog for reference on using Castle Windsor together with NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC, so I have to mention a few things that have happened since I last posted about it several years…
As a reaction to my earlier blog post on the Actor Model, Microsoft has allowed the public to get preview access to their Actor Model framework Orleans that they use to power Halo on XBox Live.…
One of my colleagues at Jayway launched a functional puzzle and solicited responses via Github gists. The challenge was as follows:…
F Actor: An Actor Libraryhttp://colinbul.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/f-actor-an-actor-library/.…
Wow, this was pretty interesting. I am definitely trying this right now. I didn’t realize F was Raven hostile, and also this unintended benefit of TypeProviders need to be announced off of the roof-tops.…
Automatic deployment when you commit and push changes to your Github/Bitbucket repo is truly awesome and like running water or electricity that it is so convenient that you incorporate it into the fabric of your life and…
For the last year and a half I have been a part of the Øredev Conference Program Committee. I should at some point write a post about it, and yes, I have had a draft laying around for a while, so here it goes:…
Trying to save face. I guess transparency would make things better.…
In the .NET community perhaps the Actor modelhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actormodel of computing is not all that familiar. In this post I will briefly describe my understanding of the possibilities it gives the “real li…
People are talking about Scala, F, Erlang, Haskell and what-have-you. What is the point of functional? What is wrong with OOP? How does it all work?…
You should have by now – but if you haven’t – do try Windows Azure Websites. It is almost as usable as AppHarbor. Just register and start setting up your websites. For small blogs and wikis you can get away with internal…
I have been thinking some more about a simple email + calendar service for Linux. I have tried a couple of ready-made groupware solutions but they seem not QUITE right FOR me. I want to rip off the ideas that GMail has s…
I was thinking, in light of the fact that all our data, including this blog, is being scrutinized by foreign to me and most internet users powers, that maybe one should try to replace Google Apps and Outlook.com, well Go…
To continue the last post about the //BUILD/ Conference, what else is new? What should you look at now? A few things stand out and I will go through them in order.…
Although Øredevhttp://oredev.org/2013 "Øredev" as per usual will be the place to be, in this case November 4-8, Microsoft currently run two conferences of their own, TechEd Europe and more importantly //BUILD/http://chan…
As the climate approaches acceptability in Sweden it’s time for the annual Lightening of the Mood, which is what Scandinavians do when the hiatus of gloom occurs that follows the sun coming out of hibernation and the imp…