All You Can Eat Agents
Jason Down This post is my contribution towards the 2021 F# Advent Calendar. Introduction I’ve been a fan of F# for many years, dabbling with it on and off during that time.…
Jason Down
CodinGame Contests Meet F# Part 1
Code 4 Life Wood League 2 to Wood League 1 This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar 2018 organized by Sergey Tihon. Introduction If you know me, it’s…
Guest Post – 100 Days of Code Challenge: Commit, Learn and Have Fun.
I recently went through the 100 Days of Code challenge and was lucky to receive the opportunity to write a guest blog post one on of my favourite sites: CodingGame.com.…
F# Pattern Matching – Part 2 – Active Patterns
A little while ago I dipped my toe into pattern matching and recursion with both F# and Elixir. I’d like to take a deeper dive into pattern matching in F#…
F# Pattern Matching – Part 1 – Introduction
A little while ago I dipped my toe into pattern matching and recursion with both F# and Elixir. I’d like to take a deeper dive into pattern matching in F#…
Recursion and Pattern Matching
Recursion Like most people coming from the land of imperative programming, one of the first things that jumped out at me when exploring functional programming was that idiomatic thinking tended…
Shifting Blog Niche to Functional Programming
Last year I started playing around with the F# programming language in earnest. This in turn sparked an internal hunger to explore the functional programming paradigm. Since then I have…
Exercises In Programming Style – Introduction
A few months ago I had the good fortune of coming across a very interesting talk by Crista Lopes about Exercises in Programming Style recorded at the Joy of Coding…
Guest Post – What Programmers Can Learn from Golfing Legend Moe Norman
It’s been a while…again. I can’t believe this is only my first post for 2016. I’ve been spending lots of time on Pluralsight becoming addicted to F#. I’ll likely start…
NAV Tech Days 2015 – Presentations Posted on Mibuso
They have begun posting the NAV Tech Days 2015 presentations on Mibuso. I was not able to attend this year, but the presentations look interesting. There is lots of great…
Guest Post – It’s Okay To Break Tradition
After a few month hiatus for summer (there is lots of family stuff to do with four kids, but no vacation this year—booerns), some heavy work deadlines and admittedly, a…
Book Review – Soft Skills – John Sonmez
Introduction I recently read the book Soft Skills – The Software Developer’s Life Manual by John Z. Sonmez. Actually, I read it twice. It is a gold mine of great…
Parsing NAV Object Dependencies – Part 2
Introduction I recently had the privilege of being interviewed by Linda Rosencrance from MSDynamicsWorld.com about how my employer has adopted Dynamics NAV and my experiences with customization and development. The…
Parsing NAV Object Dependencies – Part 1
Introduction I recently had the privilege of being interviewed by Linda Rosencrance from MSDynamicsWorld.com about how my employer has adopted Dynamics NAV and my experiences with customization and development. The…
Dynamics NAV Wizard Finite State Machine
Recently I was tasked with creating a wizard in Dynamics NAV for a custom claims module. The wizard required collecting some data from the user, which was then used to…