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A Monadic Pratt Parser in F#

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:30:03 GMT

A blog post detailing the creation of a monadic pratt parser implemented in F#. Demonstrates the combination of Pratt parsing with parser combinators.

Matt Wrock's Blog | Microsoft blogging platform gains 33% performance

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:41:31 GMT

Today Microsoft completed its onboarding of RequestReduce on its MSDN and Technet blogging platform. I am very pleased to report that upon launch, readers can now access a site that is 33% faster than it was before launch. This is a win for Microsoft, the multitudes of readers that visit its content every day and a win for the open source software (OSS) community at large.

Chutzpah 1.3.0 Released

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:35:59 GMT

A new release of Chutzpah - A JavaScript test runner. This release adds support for the Jasmine test framework.

Chutzpah - Javascript testing from Visual Studio and the command line

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:47:05 GMT

Chutzpah is a test runner for javascript, now with Visual Studio integration. It's available from nuget, the visual studio gallery, and codeplex.

Make your website faster with RequestReduce

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:58:20 GMT

A nice post on improving website performance by using RequestReduce for automatic CSS merging, minification image optimization and spriting.

Adopt RequestReduce and make your site faster

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:20:59 GMT

This post describes a new OSS project that automatically sprites and optimizes CSS background images as well as merges and minifies all CSS. It does this on the fly with very little setup effort.

Chutzpah - A JavaScript Test Runner Released

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:48:30 GMT

I just released to CodePlex and the Visual Studio Gallery a new project called Chutzpah. Chutzpah is an open source JavaScript unit test runner which helps you integrate JavaScript unit testing into your website. It enables you to run JavaScript unit tests from the command line and from inside of Visual Studio. It also supports running in the TeamCity continuous integration server.

Snippet Designer 1.4.0 Released

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:11:46 GMT

Snippet Designer 1.4.0 has been released.

Refactor now, not later

Tue, 17 May 2011 04:13:55 GMT

A blog post which describes reasons why you should never leave a comment in source code that says "Refactor this later"

Inheriting base type mappings with AutoMapper

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:46:05 GMT

Discusses a extension method for AutoMapper which allows you to inherit a base types mapping definitions.

Getting TransactionScope to play nice with NHibernate

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:57:19 GMT

When migrating an existing code base to NHibernate you may need to get Ado.net and NHibernate to play well together. This post shows how to do that using a custom transaction scope.

Functional stateful programming in F#

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:02:13 GMT

Shows how to program in F# using immutable state.

Making an executable take pipelined input in PowerShell

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:49:00 GMT

PowerShell's ability to pipeline input from one command-let to another is very useful. This blog post shows how to extend this ability to any executable by wrapping it in a simple PowerShell function.

The Nu package management system and DiffPlex

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:47:49 GMT

Nu is a package management system for .NET which is built on top of Ruby's gem system. Nu makes it easy to download and get updates for many common libraries. Now DiffPlex (.Net Diffing library) is available in Nu.

Launching the TortoiseHg log more conveniently from the command line

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:46:27 GMT

Shows a useful PowerShell function which makes it easier to launch the TortoiseHg log for a given file.

Snippet Designer 1.3 Released

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:59:19 GMT

Snippet Designer 1.3 adds support for HTML/ASP.NET, JavaScript and SQL snippets. As well as an improved snippet search.

A Mercurial PowerShell Prompt

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:36:06 GMT

A Mercurial prompt for PowerShell that display the status of the current working directory.

Tekpub: Mercurial with Codeplex

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:45:02 GMT

A free TekPub episode about working with Codeplex and Mercurial.

DiffPlex - a .NET Diff Generator

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:15:00 GMT

DiffPlex is a combination of a .NET Diffing Library with both a Silverlight and HTML diff viewer. It is released open source on CodePlex under the MS-PL license.

Reporting in NoSQL

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:15:02 GMT

One question that comes up a lot in conversation, however, is "dude what about reporting - you can't do that with NoSQL very well now can ya?" and the answer is "yes, correct. You can't". As with all things programming: right tool for the right job.

ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 Released

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT

After receiving feedback from our last release candidate back in December, we decided it would be prudent to have one more release candidate that incorporated the feedback. You can read the release notes for everything that changed, there's not a whole lot.

CodePlex adds Mercurial support

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:15:06 GMT

Microsoft's open source project hosting site announces the addition of Mercurial to its supported source control systems.

Snippet Designer 1.2 Beta Release with Visual Studio 2010 Support

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:21:31 GMT

This release contains several bug fixes but more importantly it now includes support for Visual Studio 2010.

Regex based Lexer with F#

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:35:32 GMT

A regular expression based lexer in F# using computation expressions to enable a declarative way to define the lexer rules.

Converting RTF to HTML

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:37:02 GMT

By combining a MSDN sample for converting XAML into HTML with the ability the WPF RichTextBox has to turn RTF into XAML you can construct a RTF to HTML converter.