With many .NET developers moving from the traditional (and broken) System.IO.Ports.SerialPort DataReceived event handling to either the correct and more efficient BaseStream.BeginRead / BaseStream.EndRead pair I promoted in my last post or the newer BaseStream.ReadAsync method introduced in .NET Framework 4.5 along with the C# async and await keywords, a common complaint is that BaseStreamRead more
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Nancy is my web framework of choice for .NET. It is free, lightweight, easy to use, and comes without all the bloat of the more common .NET frameworks. Nancy makes routing in C# simple. If you need to handle a form post, you simply set up the POST endpoint, and access the form variables viaRead more
As an embedded developer who writes desktop software mostly for configuration of, and data download from, peripheral devices, I use serial data streams a lot. Mostly USB virtual serial posts from FTDI, but also the USB Communication Device Class and real 16550-compatible UARTs on the PCI bus. Since looking at data through an in-circuit emulatorRead more
In my previous post, I showed an example of where the lack of higher-kinded types in .NET (both C# and F#) induces the need for code repetition. In this post I’ll show you how higher-kinded type support in Haskell allows for the elimination of this repetition. LINQ First, let’s take our LINQ query and translateRead more
Recently I was interfacing with an accelerometer sensor, and the sensor was streaming raw acceleration values. The C# program processing the data seemed to work as I was getting reasonable output (the output was aggregate of few hundred samples). However while debugging an unrelated problem, I happened to realize that for some streaming values IRead more
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time in Visual Studio cranking away at C# code. You follow the updates to the language with each release, learn the new things that are possible and how it can make your life easier. But you also investigate other languages in your free time and seeRead more