Yo! - I'm a Lambda.

I've just been reading up on the new JavaScript/ECMAScript 6 features and in particular the new fat-arrow syntax for lambdas. It's funny, but whenever I see this syntax () => { } in C# code, my mind always shouts to me "Yo!! - I'm a Lambda". - Okay, I understand that might sound weird... It is weird and I don't know how to stop it! Let me explain! What I mean is, as programmers, when we read...

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Windows Command Line Goodies

With the news that Microsoft is bringing Bash to Windows (what a crazy world we live in!), it looks like I'm going to add "bash" to my "one more thing to learn" list. In the meantime, I thought it would be good to list the common daily windows cmd.exe tools that I use and find useful. You can't beat...

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Observations on Software Package Managers

It’s interesting to watch the landscape of software development evolve over time. One of those evolution's is the advent of package managers. As an application developer, having access to a global library of code packages which can be pulled down in an automated way, is such a valuable addition to the development experience. They are everywhere! For example: JavaScript has the NPM C# has...

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