Monthly Archives: March 2011

Yesterday I attended the Skillsmatter Functional Programming Exchange where there was a sequence of really interesting talks. The day started with Simon Peyton Jones giving a good introduction to the issues around multi-core concurrency and parallelism. The talk was really … Continue reading →

We had an interesting issue at work this week concerning a Visual Studio add-in that was failing but only on versions of Windows that were not in an English locale and only in Visual Studio SP1. We had reports of … Continue reading →

I recently attended the QCon London conference, and I have to say that there were a number of really interesting and thought-provoking talks. I very much enjoyed Bart De Smet’s talk on “LINQ, take two”. This talk consisted of some … Continue reading →

I’ve read a couple of quite interesting papers this week. There’s an interesting paper on memory models with some associated discussion on Lambda The Ultimate. Current memory models are either badly underspecified or are hard to relate to a user’s … Continue reading →