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.less is more
I gave a quick Firestarter talk at the San Francisco .Net user group yesterday about .less. .less (‘dot-less’) is an open source .Net library, which extends the functionality of CSS (it works with...
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Automatically exclude bin and obj folder in Tortoise SVN
It seems like all the cool kids are using either Git or Mercurial these days, so I feel like a dinosaur sticking to Subversion and Tortoise for version control. In the meanwhile, I just figured out a...
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Mutant Excel and .Net with ExcelDNA
Some time ago, I came across ExcelDNA, an open-source library designed to integrate .Net into Excel, via a post by the Grumpy One, who described it as an interesting way to get Excel to talk to a...
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Supercharge Excel functions with ExcelDNA and .Net parallelism
In my last post I explored how ExcelDNA can be used to write high-performance UDFs for Excel, calling .Net code without the overhead of VSTO. Using .Net instead of VBA for intensive computations...
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In order to learn BDD, As a TDD fan, I want to try StoryQ
I have been a fan of Test-Driven Development for a long time; it has helped me write better code and keep my sanity more than once. However, until now, I haven’t really looked into Behavior-Driven...
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Just saw that version 3.1 of Microsoft Solver Foundation has been released. I haven’t had time to try it out yet, but the list of improvements looks promising. A better non linear solver, better MIP...
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VSTO: code traceability with Source Control
This post is part of a series providing commentary on the VSTO Stocks project. I initially developed it for the Excel Developers Conference in London, to illustrate some of the benefits or interesting...
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FsCheck + XUnit = The Bomb
A couple of days ago, I got into the following Twitter exchange:@brandewinder do you have any link to get in touch with this combo? #fsharp— Max Malook (@max_malook) March 21, 2014 So why do I think...
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