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• Addicted to MEF

  Be careful of MEF .  It’s pure and potent.  Use it once and you’ll be hooked! I’m fashionably late to the party (I got distracted by XNA) because the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is already in Preview 5, but my god of a coding partner Read More... Posted 16 May 2009 10:39 by stuart.harris | 2 Comments Filed under: MEF, .Net 4.0, VS 2010

• Getting all functional

  Having done Biology at University rather than Computer Science, I regret having spent most of my career not really understanding why functional programming is so important.  I knew it was the oldest paradigm around, but assumed that it was just for Read More... Posted 29 November 2008 15:29 by stuart.harris | 1 Comments

• The elephant in the room

  There was lots of talk at Tech-Ed last week  about concurrency and parallel programming.  It’s becoming a real issue because we’re in the middle of a shift in the way Moore’s Law works for us.  Up until around 2002, we were getting a “free Read More... Posted 18 November 2008 18:37 by stuart.harris | 1 Comments

• Natonal Rail Enquiries / Microsoft PoC (Part 1)

  Updated (20/10/08)– removed IP addresses and other minor edits Wow - great fun!  I was dev lead on a Proof-of-Concept project for National Rail Enquiries (NRE) at the Microsoft Technology Centre (MTC) in Reading.  Jason Webb (NRE) and I demonstrated Read More... Posted 02 October 2008 11:24 by stuart.harris | 4 Comments