Recent reading material on .NET and software development in general

Xamarin Forms Application For Home Automation

11/5/2014, 7:57 AM

Building a Xamarin Forms application to control my home automation system

Ian Mercer

A strongly-typed, RegEx-based parser for handling input strings

6/26/2014, 8:00 PM

Ian Mercer

JSON Patch - a C# implementation

5/2/2014, 3:05 PM

Ian Mercer

Dynamically building 'Or' Expressions in LINQ

2/13/2013, 8:43 AM

How to create a LINQ expression that logically ORs together a set of predicates

Ian Mercer

VariableWithHistory - making persistence invisible, making history visible

2/4/2013, 2:00 PM

A novel approach to adding history to variables in a programming language

Ian Mercer

Updated Release of the Abodit State Machine

7/11/2012, 2:28 PM

A hierarchical state machine for .NET

Ian Mercer

Building a better .NET State Machine

4/15/2012, 2:38 PM

A state machine for .NET that I've released on Nuget

Ian Mercer

The Internet of Dogs

3/26/2012, 4:14 AM

Connecting our dog into the home automation

Ian Mercer

A simple state machine in C#

1/7/2012, 4:31 PM

State machines are useful in many contexts but especially for home automation

Ian Mercer

Programming a smart home with a fluent, domain-specific language

9/21/2011, 12:30 AM

Ian Mercer

Convert a property getter to a setter

9/16/2011, 12:52 PM

Ian Mercer

What if ... you could define and query an Ontology using natural language?

9/10/2011, 3:30 PM

Ian Mercer

Dynamic persistence with MongoDB - look, no classes! Multiple inheritance in C#!

9/7/2011, 7:58 AM

Ian Mercer

Home network crawler - cataloging every file on the home LAN with C# and MongoDB

8/24/2011, 3:53 AM

Ian Mercer

Stop writing rude software! Use LASTINPUTINFO instead.

8/20/2011, 11:20 AM

Ian Mercer

C# Natural Language Engine connected to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online

6/7/2011, 3:53 AM

Ian Mercer

Class-free persistence and multiple inheritance in C# with MongoDB

5/5/2011, 3:53 AM

Ian Mercer

Random names in C# using LINQ and a touch of functional programming

3/22/2011, 12:49 PM

Ian Mercer

How to get CrmSvcUtil.exe to work with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 online

3/11/2011, 5:39 AM

Ian Mercer

Extending C# to understand the language of the semantic web

2/6/2011, 3:53 AM

Ian Mercer

Algorithm Complexity and the 'Which one will be faster?' question

1/8/2011, 1:40 AM

Ian Mercer

Task Parallel Library: A scheduler with priority, apartment state and maximum degree of parallelism

11/26/2010, 3:53 AM

Ian Mercer

MongoDB Map-Reduce - Hints and Tips

11/13/2010, 2:32 PM

Ian Mercer

Exception: An object with the same key already exists in the ObjectStateManager. The ObjectStateManager cannot track multiple objects with the same key.

10/24/2010, 1:09 AM

Help with this exception

Ian Mercer

Constrained parallelism for the Task Parallel Library

9/2/2010, 2:29 AM

Ian Mercer

Singleton tasks: A TaskFactory for the Task Parallel Library with 'run-only-one' semantics

9/2/2010, 2:11 AM

Ian Mercer

GDI+ Image.FromFile has a problem - here's how to fix it

7/31/2010, 3:38 AM

Ian Mercer

Weather Forecasting for Home Automation

7/26/2010, 10:38 AM

Ian Mercer

Sequential Logic Blocks - compared to the Reactive Framework

7/20/2010, 8:22 AM

Ian Mercer

Lengthening short Urls in C#

6/6/2010, 5:08 AM

Ian Mercer

An ontology triple (quad) store for RDF/OWL using Entity Framework 4

5/13/2010, 5:34 AM

Ian Mercer

The relationship could not be changed because one or more of the foreign-key properties is non-nullable

5/10/2010, 2:07 PM

Ian Mercer

Error 3032: Problem in mapping fragments : mapped to the same rows in table

4/28/2010, 12:44 AM

Ian Mercer

A simple redirect route handler for ASP.NET 3.5 routing

4/21/2010, 1:22 PM

Ian Mercer

Why functional programming and LINQ is often better than procedural code

4/16/2010, 1:09 AM

Ian Mercer

10 reasons my O(n²) algorithm is better than your O(n) algorithm

4/9/2010, 5:20 AM

Ian Mercer

Putting a feedback button on every page with ASP.NET MVC and JQuery

3/14/2010, 6:28 AM

Ian Mercer

A simple web crawler in C# using HtmlAgilityPack

3/10/2010, 3:05 PM

Ian Mercer

Using Exception.Data to add additional information to an Exception

3/9/2010, 6:28 AM

Ian Mercer

ASP.NET MVC SEO - Solution Part 1

3/8/2010, 1:43 PM

Ian Mercer

ASP.NET MVC meet SEO; SEO meet ASP.NET MVC

3/4/2010, 8:13 AM

Ian Mercer

Certificates for the Microsoft MyDotNetStory competition

3/2/2010, 1:54 PM

Ian Mercer

A strongly-typed natural language engine (C# NLP)

3/1/2010, 3:05 PM

Ian Mercer

DateTime values should always be stored in UTC

2/26/2010, 3:19 AM

Ian Mercer

Interesting or useful links on Twitter this week relating to .NET and C#

2/23/2010, 1:02 AM

Ian Mercer

Building sitemap.xml for SEO ASP.NET MVC

2/10/2010, 6:03 AM

Ian Mercer

Issues combining ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Forms in the same application

2/7/2010, 8:06 AM

Ian Mercer

String extension methods for truncating and adding ellipsis

2/3/2010, 10:22 AM

Ian Mercer

If it walks like a class, talks like a class, it probably is a class

2/1/2010, 12:49 PM

Ian Mercer

Home Automation with Voxeo (VoxML/Voice XML)

1/29/2010, 2:31 AM

Ian Mercer

Tip: getting the index in a foreeach statement

12/11/2009, 6:28 AM

A tip on using LINQ's Select expression with an index

Ian Mercer

WCF and the SYSTEM account

11/15/2009, 11:06 PM

Namespace reservations and http.sys, my, oh my!

Ian Mercer

404 errors on IIS6 with ASP.NET 4 Beta 2

10/23/2009, 6:28 AM

Ian Mercer

Mixed mode assembly errors after upgrade to .NET 4 Beta 2

10/21/2009, 9:35 PM

Fixing this error was fairly simple

Ian Mercer

The EntityContainer name could not be determined

10/12/2009, 6:28 AM

How to fix the exception "the entitycontainer" name could not be determined

Ian Mercer

Shortened URLs should be treated like a Codec ...

10/11/2009, 12:14 PM

Expanding URLs would help users decide whether or not to click a link

Ian Mercer

A great site for developing and testing regular expressions

10/10/2009, 6:28 AM

Just a link to a site I found useful

Ian Mercer

Entity Framework in .NET 4

7/24/2009, 7:44 AM

Ian Mercer

System.Data.EntitySqlException

5/15/2009, 10:04 AM

Hints for dealing with this exception

Ian Mercer

Exception Handling using Exception.Data

4/23/2009, 4:38 AM

My latest article on CodeProject covers the lesser known Exception.Data property

Ian Mercer

ASP.NET Custom Validation

4/18/2009, 12:43 AM

How to solve a problem encountered with custom validation in ASP.NET

Ian Mercer

Optimization Advice

4/5/2009, 1:17 AM

Some advice on software optimization

Ian Mercer

Linq's missing link

3/3/2009, 11:01 AM

LinqKit came in handy back in 2009

Ian Mercer

Cache optimized scanning of pairwise combinations of values

1/9/2008, 4:41 PM

Using space-filling curves to optimize caching

Ian Mercer

Threading and User Interfaces

7/31/2006, 3:40 AM

A rant about how few software programs get threading right

Ian Mercer

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