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Oliver Sturm

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• My F# talk on Channel 9

  Posted: 24 Jun 2009 at 09:55 by Oliver Sturm

  When I was at DevDays in The Hague last month, all my talks were recorded. Until now I wasn’t aware that something was actually going to happen with these recordings :-) Now the first one of them has been published on Channel 9, here: / I’m wondering if my FP in C# talk will also be published - while I was there, that one seemed to be the most popular one I did. I’ll ask! Update: Apparently all presentations will be posted there, but it takes some time.

• DevDays Netherlands 2009 - slides and samples

  Posted: 01 Jun 2009 at 07:30 by Oliver Sturm

  And another great conference, another set of slides and samples. Thank you for being there! Taking efficiency one step further - F# Functional Programming in F# Functional Programming in C#

• NT konferenca 2009 - slides and samples for my talks

  Posted: 01 Jun 2009 at 07:26 by Oliver Sturm

  Not much time right now for a full description of that great conference. But I wanted to get the slides and samples up here for those of you who want to have another look. Here you go: Taking efficiency one step further - F# Concurrency using functional patterns in C# Have fun!

• Guest lecture in Graz on Functional Programming in C#

  Posted: 25 May 2009 at 09:31 by Oliver Sturm

  The first stop of my Europe roundtrip is completed and I’m now in Slovenia for NT konferenca 2009. Last Friday I did a guest lecture at campus02 in Graz (which is in Austria, btw – had a few people asking me that <g&gt, on functional programming in C#. I think there were around 40 people there, everything went smoothly and everybody was very interested - great! Here are the complete slides and samples which were used in the lecture: GrazGuestLectureMay2009.

• European roundtrip coming up

  Posted: 20 May 2009 at 16:39 by Oliver Sturm

  I’m leaving tomorrow for a little roundtrip. First, on Friday, I’m doing a guest lecture about Functional Programming in C# at Campus 02 in Graz, Austria. From there I’m moving on to Slovenia (on Saturday, May 23rd), for NT Konferenca 2009. I’ll be doing two sessions there, on C# as well as F#. I’m also exhibiting for DevExpress– but of course, DevExpress related questions and conversations are always welcome anyway!

• Microsoft product activation - maybe cracked is better after all

  Posted: 19 May 2009 at 21:53 by Oliver Sturm

  I was just setting up Office in my Windows 7 VM, and something happened that I’ve never seen before: the activation process found that I had installed the license too many times and I should therefore call Microsoft on the phone and explain myself. Or something like that. Oddly, this time I had been using a license number that was in fact listed as an Office Professional key in my list of keys from my MSDN subscription.

• TechEd Online video on Functional Programming in C#

  Posted: 13 May 2009 at 19:07 by Oliver Sturm

  Yesterday I recorded a video at TechEd about Functional Programming in C#, together with my colleague Gary Short. It’s up on the site now: Functional Programming in C#. Unfortunately, the quality of the code demo in the video isn’t that great, my apologies for that. I’m not even going to go into what they made me do to the Apple logo on my laptop :-) The info at the end of the video is supposed to read something like this: Oliver Sturm / DevExpress olivers@devexpress.

• On my way to LA

  Posted: 05 May 2009 at 18:58 by Oliver Sturm

  Just a quick note to say that I’ll be traveling to LA tomorrow for a few days in the DevExpress office and TechEd next week! I’ll be doing a vendor session for DevExpress at TechEd (Wednesday afternoon), as well as a birds-of-a-feather talk about functional programming and concurrency, and I’ll record an online tech talk about FP in C#. I’ll keep everybody posted! Meanwhile, if you are at TechEd next week, find me at the DevExpress booth and say hi! I’m going to hav

• Hosted subversion? Not for me, thanks.

  Posted: 25 Apr 2009 at 09:03 by Oliver Sturm

  I’ve been using Subversion for many years, probably since 2002 or so, and when I started using it, I imported my existing CVS repository, which contains stuff dating back to 1995 or so. It’s a big and (to me) very valuable archive, especially since I started early on to put all sorts of stuff in there – not just source code, I mean, but rather everything that may be versioned, and that just benefits from being backed up in that repository. All my business paperwork, things like

• Slides and samples from my ACCU conference session on FP in F#

  Posted: 24 Apr 2009 at 09:04 by Oliver Sturm

  I did a session on Functional Programming in F# at ACCU conference recently. I had a good time – if you were there, I hope you did, too! Here’s a zip file with the slides and samples for that talk. Quite a bit more than I actually went through in the talk, so have a good look around the content! ACCU-FPinFS.zip

• Best community event session was the one where the demos broke

  Posted: 18 Apr 2009 at 18:47 by Oliver Sturm

  Just had this conversation in Twitter - well, as much of it as the 140 char limit allows. Somebody (keeping things anonymous here - own up if you want to! :-)) said the best session at the community event WebDD was one where the presenter had trouble with his laptop and couldn’t show any demos. Not the first time I hear something like this - perhaps I wouldn’t be bothered if it was. But most community events these days seem to have one or the other such incident. Well, I’m afra

• Sod This episode 3 is there!

  Posted: 14 Apr 2009 at 14:28 by Oliver Sturm

  For a little while now, I’ve been doing a podcast together with Gary Short, which you can find here: http://www.sodthis.com The latest installment is episode 3, where we interview Michael Foord on the topic of dynamic languages. Give it a try, it’s fun!

• Slides and samples for DevWeek 2009 talks

  Posted: 30 Mar 2009 at 10:23 by Oliver Sturm

  Thanks to everybody who came to my sessions last week at DevWeek! Here are the downloads of my slides and samples: C# 3.0 - Interesting use cases outside of LINQ Concurrency using functional patterns in C# Taking efficiency one step further - F# Have fun!

• Speaking at DevWeek 2009

  Posted: 21 Mar 2009 at 13:32 by Oliver Sturm

  I’ll be traveling down to London tomorrow for DevWeek 2009, where I’m going to do a workshop on F# on Monday and a few sessions on C# and F# on Thursday. Are you going to DevWeek? Are you going to be in London over the next few days? If you want to meet up, just let me know and I’m sure we can work something out! I’ll be twittering while I’m there, so following me on Twitter will be a good way of finding out where I am, if you fancy joining me for a pint!

• Bad Twitter Friends

  Posted: 20 Mar 2009 at 18:36 by Oliver Sturm

  @keithelder pointed me to a cool site a moment ago: Bad Twitter Friends It shows me something that I’ve been curious about in the past: which of the people I’m following don’t follow me back, and which of the people who are following me am I not following back. I’ve tried to answer that question before and couldn’t find a way to do it – but in contrast to @ldnStreetLife I didn’t start developing a solution :-) My own “policy” is pretty much t

• Do you like Silverlight? Why? Really?

  Posted: 20 Mar 2009 at 12:36 by Oliver Sturm

  So, we’ve heard a lot of news about Silverlight recently from Mix 09. Great to see the platform evolve – but what’s the future? Personally, I’m skeptical. I think there are several main problem areas in my eyes when it comes to developing with/for Silverlight: There are things that Silverlight can’t do. In past versions, it was much easier to list the things that Silverlight can do, but this is fortunately changing. Still, now Microsoft seems to use “business

• Slides and samples for Basta Italia

  Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 17:28 by Oliver Sturm

  For once, I’m thinking of this before I go to a conference… every time, attendees ask me whether the slides will be available somewhere, and every time I say yes, the organizers are going to put them somewhere, but I don’t know where or when and I’ll try to remember making them available myself. Usually I do remember, but sometimes I’m sure I don’t… So, here you are. These are the two presentations I’m going to do at Basta Italia on Tuesday. C# 3

• Sod This - new podcast by Oliver and Gary

  Posted: 14 Mar 2009 at 17:14 by Oliver Sturm

  Gary and I have just published the first episode of our new podcast, called Sod This. I’m not going to go into lots of details on it here, because it’s all available on the site itself: Sod This - Brain Burps for the Tech Savvy I hope you enjoy it!

• TechEd US BOF session - please vote!!!

  Posted: 11 Mar 2009 at 21:23 by Oliver Sturm

  Here’s the abstract I submitted for a birds-of-a-feather session at TechEd US: Benefits of Functional Programming ideas in the context of parallelization efforts Parallelization is an important topic these days and Microsoft are doing a lot to make it easier. Without looking at the agenda, it seems safe to say that TechEd will be full of content around Parallel Extensions, the many-core shift and related issues. .NET Parallel Extensions are valuable and important, but there is still one di

• Improvements to Barry's book cover

  Posted: 10 Mar 2009 at 17:40 by Oliver Sturm

  Barry Dorrans is writing a book! Very cool - I thought I'd help him out a bit and make some minor modifications to the cover he's currently using. What do you think? Is it perhaps a bit too subtle? Ah well, just an idea. Let me know what you think (or Barry, of course)!