The Spiral of Progress, or All New Is Actually a Thoroughly Forgotten Old
I am reading a book on WPF (“Programming WPF” by Chris Sells if you want to know), and it says that storing “behavior” and “look” in two different places is […]
My hard drive is fried
My old 80GB Maxtor D740X-6L is kaput. He was 6 years and 4 months old. May he rest in peace.
Original XP install CD does not understand SP2 NTFS partition
My computer crashed today and would not reboot. I.e. windows starts booting and then says it cannot find c:windowssystem32configsystem file. It suggested to boot from the install CD and use […]
WPF Initial Focus
A violation of rule of least astonishment: in Windows Forms the focus is automatically set to the first element in tab order. In WPF (and in ASP.NET) it’s not the […]
WPF : Renaming the Main Form
Finally, after reading books about WPF I started to actually work with it. As usual, I start with complaints 🙂 It turns out that renaming a WPF form, especially main […]
FLAP: the Four Letter Acronym Proliferation
It used to be LAN, WAN, SAN, COM, DOM, ROM, TCP, UDP, FTP, CPM, IBM, JVM, then URL, XML, UML, … But it looks like the era of the TLAs […]
Developing Large Projects in F#
After trying to build a slightly above-toy-size project in F#, I came to the conclusion that with current tools it would be quite difficult to maintain a project of even […]
F# Type Casts
Typecast matters are complicated in F#. Unlike many other languages, F# does not perform implicit upcasts by default. E.g. if class Derived derives from Base, and we have let func( […]
F#: How to Make a Record Type Nullable
As I mentioned in the previous post, F# types (as opposed to classes) cannot be null. That is, you cannot explicitly make them null, but you can still end up […]
F#: Types, Classes and Nullability
F# has two kinds of data types – “classes” and “types”. Types are bags of bits, similar to C structs, only immutable (that’s C, without sharp). Classes are classes in […]