January 2010 - Posts

• Life at the F# end

  Posted Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:50 PM | 8 Comments
  
  

  In a fascinating interview in this issue of Simple-Talk, Don Syme discusses his work on the F# programming language, its journey from it academic roots in ML and Ocaml, to its burgeoning status as the hottest new thing in .NET. A central pin in the forthcoming Read More by Tony Davis | 8 Comments | Comment on this post

• Reckless Drivers

  Posted Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:53 AM | 6 Comments
  
  

  When I first joined the industry in the late 90's, Microsoft was in the process of shunting the ODBC driver into the background in favour of OLE-DB and ADO. The ODBC driver was still included in Microsoft' Windows MDAC framework, but it had gained a rather Read More by Tony Davis | 6 Comments | Comment on this post