About me

I suppose I could kick off without introducing myself, but that would be rather rude.

I always write Samuel Jack in my by-line in the vain hope that the second and third syllables of my name will get a hearing; I'm invariably called Sam.

I'm a twenty-something software developer living near Bromsgrove in the UK. Paragon Simulation kindly provide my daily crust, and the MSDN Subscription, without which life would be so much the poorer.

We develop specialised business modelling software. Maybe I'll tell you about that some other time. In practice it means I get to develop with .Net (using C# of course), WPF, and in the last couple of months, WCF and VSTO.

The thing that I love about being a software developer is having ideas and then seeing them come to life - making something that works and is useful. That's one reason for the title of my blog. The other is that, now that C#3.0 is out, everyone is going on about functional programming. So I thought I'd have some fun in finding out what-on-earth they're talking about. Perhaps you'd like to join me?