Very recently there has been an ongoing debate between static and dynamically typed languages. Since it seems that there has been some Star Wars references, I thought I'd add my own. I originally wanted to cover this as part of the future of C#, but I think it deserves its own topic. There have been...

It was often asked during some of my presentations on F# and Functional C# about the future direction of C# and where I think it's going. Last night I was pinged about this with my F# talk at the Philly ALT.NET meeting. The question was asked, why bother learning F#, when eventually I'll get...

In one of my previous posts about Command-Query Separation (CQS) and side effecting functions being code smells, it was pointed out to me again about immutable builders. For the most part, this has been one area of CQS that I've been willing to let break. I've been following Martin Fowler's...

I know the title might catch a few people off guard, but let me explain. Side effecting functions, for the most part, are code smells. This is a very important concept in Domain Driven Design (DDD) that's often overlooked. For those who are deep in DDD, this should sound rather familiar. And in the...