GOTO Copenhagen 2017 Retrospective

Another year of GOTO have come to an end. At least for me, since I only participated a single day this year. I was invited as a blogger once again. In short, bloggers are offered free access to the conference by writing blog posts, typically around subjects discussed on the…

GOTO Copenhagen 2016 Retrospective

Another year of GOTO is getting near its end. I skipped going last year and having the chance to be back this year, has been a great experience. While GOTO is a good conference for sure, the best part is meeting up with former colleagues and friends. I chose to…

See you at GOTO Copenhagen 2016?

GOTO Copenhagen is up and even though I’m not blogging from the conference this year, I want to share my conference plan so far. Hope to see you there. One of many nice things about GOTO, is their ability to find good keynote speakers. Some of my favorite talks…

GOTO Aarhus 2014 Retrospective

Another GOTO conference went by. It have been two great days and I’m actually happy about the format change. Three days of conference is a long time and I’m always ready to call it a week when heading home on the third day. 9 blog posts [https://thomasardal.…

Exception Filters in C# 6.0

In the last post inspired by The Future of C# [http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2014/presentations/show_presentation.jsp?oid=6227] talk at GOTO, I introduced you to Declaration Expressions and Static Using [https://thomasardal.com/declaration-expressions-and-static-using-in-c-6-0/]. In this post I will take a look at Exception Filters in C# 6.…

Primary Constructors in C# 6.0

In my previous post [https://thomasardal.com/auto-properties-with-initializers-in-c-6-0/], inspired by the Future of C# [http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2014/presentations/show_presentation.jsp?oid=6227] talk at GOTO, I looked at Initializers, making it possible to assign a value to an auto-property at declaration, just as with a field. This post…

Auto-properties with Initializers in C# 6.0

In the previous post [https://thomasardal.com/how-to-enable-c-6-0-language-preview-in-visual-studio-14-ctp-3/] (inspired by the Future of C# [http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2014/presentations/show_presentation.jsp?oid=6227] talk at GOTO), I showed you how to enable the C# 6.0 Language Preview in Visual Studio 14 CTP 3. In this post, I’ll…

Date histogram facets ... ehm aggregations revisited

Goight through last years blog posts written during GOTO [http://gotocon.com/], I found a post terrible out-dated post named Implementing date histogram facets with Elasticsearch and Nest [https://thomasardal.com/implementing-date-histogram-facets-with-elasticsearch-and-nest/]. A lot happened since then. Elasticsearch turned 1.0 and follwing that, aggregrations were introduced. Aggregations is facets…