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Code Camp 12: Boston – Why F#?

Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 11:18 AM by RickM
A couple of months ago I was talking to Lou Franco , the head of our Software Engineering department and fellow functional programming enthusiast, about the possibility of using F# for projects in the future.  Being business minded, he replied that Read More...
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More Cores Requires More Abstraction, What Does This Mean For Image Processing?

Posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:47 PM by RickM
Compilers and programmers are good at very different things.  This is why they must come together in order to build software.  The programmer has the vision and the intention, the compiler keeps track of all of the small machine related details Read More...
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Windows Live Writer Makes Blogging Less of a Hassle

Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 2:23 PM by RickM
The blog CMS we use is great in a lot of ways but it’s built in editor is really, really bad. Initially, I had used Microsoft Word to fill the gap, with disastrous results . Since then I have moved to using our blog software’s horribly antiquated text Read More...
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Avoiding the Dangers of Ambiguously Defined Data-Types

Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 11:10 AM by RickM
When you are handed a string, integer, or any value type, can you know what it really represents? Can you define the range of appropriate behaviors for that data? Can you tell if it's formatted correctly? The problem is, in all of these cases, you can't. Read More...
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The Cursed History of Smalltalk in .NET

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:44 PM by RickM
After my last blog post, due to some of the responses, I decided to spend some time with Smalltalk. As a DotNET developer by trade, I wanted to see what kinds of options were available for use on the CLR. Unfortunately, out of the five different DotNET Read More...
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20 Years Later IRC is Still Useful; Are You Taking Advantage of it?

Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 2:23 PM by RickM
This upcoming August the IRC protocol will officially be 20 years old. I think anyone would agree that it has weathered the years better than any other high level internet protocol. It does not suffer from the spam and abuse that have overtaken other Read More...
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