Coder's Coffee House

• Headless Front End Testing on Linux using F# and Canopy

  2017-01-17

  I've been following F# for a while but it's only recently started appearing in my workflow for serious work. I'm not a good F# programmer at all but I'm confident enough to use it in small scripts and I think it does a pretty good job here. However, I recently ...

• Calling F# from C# in Xamarin Studio

  2016-09-30

  I've been using Xamarin Studio for some time and now use it daily for my work with Mono. I've also been dabbling a bit in F# and have been keen to start using it at work. Untypically for a Xamarin Studio user I don't use it for building mobile apps ...

• Real World ASP.NET Core Linux Example

  2016-08-19

  Anyone who's been reading my stuff knows one of my motivations is to provide documentation that is otherwise lacking for getting .NET to run on Linux. Part of the problem historically has been Microsoft only officially supporting Windows which has meant tutorials, Stack Overflow answers, user forums et al have ...

• A Better SQL Server Experience on OSX

  2016-05-23

  Anyone following my other blog posts will know I'm a .NET guy who works with Linux (we do exist) and so like a lot of *nix guys I work with a Mac. I love my Macbook but I still need to enter the Windows world from time to time and ...

• ASP.NET MVC with Xamarin Studio

  2016-03-01

  Anyone following along with my recent posts will notice I've been writing about working with Mono on Linux. I've covered installing Mono on Linux and hosting a website which for me was the hard part but some people have complained about the lack of anything for getting started outside Windows. ...