Gareth Reptons development blog

I’m starting to write some of my thoughts down as I start to join the dots a bit with AI partly as a means to hold myself accountable and increase my own knowledge, they will likely change frequently because it’s very new and the industry as a whole is st…

Intro C# 8 unfortunately seems to be branching away from the standard .Net Framework and its not (fully?)

Intro I came across Option FORCE ORDER a few months ago whilst looking into performance issues with a particular query, and thought it was worth writing down as I’d never seen it before and its quite useful.

Intro The steady march towards learning F# continues.

I went to create a .Net framework F# console app as part of a larger existing .Net Framework solution, and found that the project dialog didn’t give me that option for a full .Net Framework project.

The Problem This is largely the same problem as the Test Data Builder, you have non trivial test data that needs repeated construction in many tests.

Intro This is just a really quick post on how to write async test methods in C# with XUnit and NSubstitute.

Introduction This is the first post on category theory terms, which is sort of like a mathematical version of design patterns in the functional world, but as you might expect they are at a much lower level than the OO design patterns.

Introduction A little bit of magic from the functional world… Read the following 2 examples closely.

Intro For my second post on F# I’m sticking with simple examples, and I’m going to write a really basic prime number calculator.