Monthly Archives: April 2010

The “Dark Matter” of Technical Debt: Enterprise Software

April 23, 2010 – 7:52 pm

Bespoke software is expensive. As we all well know, it is risky to build, technical debt can easily creep in, and you can easily end up with a maintenance nightmare. And software developers, well – we all know they are hard to work with, they tend to have opinions about things, and did I mention, [...]

By Aaron Erickson | Posted in Technology | Comments (7)

F# Based Discriminated Union/Structural Similarity

April 8, 2010 – 10:45 pm

Imagine you have a need to take one type, which may or may not be a discriminated union, and see if it “fits” inside of another type.  A typical case might be whether one discriminated union case would be a possible case for a different discriminated union.  That is, could the structure of type A [...]

By Aaron Erickson | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Using Dynamic with C# to read XML

April 5, 2010 – 11:57 pm

On April 10th (less than 1 week away), I am doing an updated version of my talk at Twin Cities Code Camp about using dynamic with C#. One core technique I am seeking to demonstrate is to use the concept of a dynamic XML reader as a more human readable way to use XML content in [...]

By Aaron Erickson | Posted in Technology | Comments (7)
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