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Humble Programmers’ Reflections by Example on Unit Tests, TDD and BDD

Bruce Meacham discusses using user stories and business requirements for writing good tests that lead to good code, with examples in C#/SpecFlow and JavaScript/Cucumber.

Bruce Meacham
on Oct 25, 2014

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Unit Testing Beyond Mock Objects

Sven Rosvall discusses the new generation of mocking frameworks useful for mocking out static methods, creating objects of classes without public constructors, and others.

Sven Rosvall
on Oct 24, 2014

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Practical Machine Learning

Seth Juarez introduces the nuML machine learning library, addressing the clustering issue in .NET applications by focusing on recommendation engines and anomaly detection.

Seth Juarez
on Oct 11, 2014

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The Secrets of LINQ: The Modern Day Houdini

Brian Korzynski unveils the secrets on LINQ, how it works and the constructs it uses, covering Funcs, Actions, lambdas, and expressions.

Brian Korzynski
on Oct 03, 2014

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Doing Data Science with F#

Tomas Petricek introduces F#’s capabilities in dealing with scientific data: type providers -CSV, XML, JSON, REST-, interactive development, data visualization libraries, integration with R or MathLab

Tomas Petricek
on Jul 18, 2014

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The Microsoft Cloud OS Data Platform

Anthony Saxby introduces the new capabilities added to SQL Server, SQL Server PDW and HDInsight in the first half of 2014.

Anthony Saxby
on Jun 07, 2014

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A Practical Implementation of Async

Mitchel Sellers uses multiple real-world applications to show practical implementations of Async within actual applications, covering various scenarios and implementations of the Async pattern.

Mitchel Sellers
on May 31, 2014

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All Your Types Are Belong to Us!

Phil Trelford demoes accessing a variety of data sources via F# Type Providers.

Phil Trelford
on Apr 13, 2014

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Building a Language for Spreadsheet Refactoring

Felienne Hermans introduces BumbleBee, a refactoring and metaprogramming spreadsheets tool based on a DSL that can perform transformations against spreadsheet formulas.

Felienne Hermans
on Mar 20, 2014

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Delivering Performance Under Schedule and Resource Pressure: Lessons Learned at Google and Microsoft

Ivan Filho shares lessons learned during the development and release of several large scale services at Microsoft and Google from the perspective of a performance manager.

Ivan Filho
on Mar 06, 2014

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Excel Coding Errors Are Destroying World Economies and F# (with Tsunami) Is Here to Stop Them!

Matthew Moloney discusses using F# and .NET inside Excel, demonstrating doing big data, cloud computing, using GPGPU and compiling F# Excel UDFs.

Matthew Moloney
on Mar 05, 2014

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The Yin and Yang of Hardware Heterogeneity: Can Software Survive?

Kathryn S. McKinley discusses research approaches and results that abstract, choose, and exploit hardware heterogeneity providing computational power at low energy consumption levels.

Kathryn S. McKinley
on Jan 12, 2014

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