About

HELLO! Thank you for visiting my site. I am Bikal Gurung the host of this site and an Independent Software Developer. I mostly develop mid to large sized web and enterprise integration applications. My tool of choice these days are Ocaml, F#, Biztalk 2010/2006, ASP.NET MVC 3, C#, .NET 4, HTML, CSS, JQuery and VS.NET 2010.

I am based in Luton/London, UK.

Here, I discuss topics of interest to me. For now, I discuss mainly functional programming using Ocaml and F#, Enterprise application using MS Biztalk 2010, ASP.NET MVC, C#, Jquery, general Web design/Development,

Why the Minimalist Developer ?

The inspiration for the name of this site comes from the minimalist principles as propounded by the Swiss design masters of yonder years. Designers such as Josef Muller Brockman, Emile Ruder and Jan Tschichold. I am fascinated in particular to the emphasis given on the functional aspects of design elements and how most of the design elements follow this guideline.

As I come from mostly development background, I have often times thought how we could use the same principles to construct software. The concept is bit vague and not well articulated yet but I have a gut feeling that software construction in general will benefit from this exploration.

About the Site

Designed and developed by me on a Mac Snow leopard running Windows 7. Conceived on Photoshop CS4, brought to life with HTML, CSS and Jquery goodness. Pressed using WordPress. Fonts are primarily Palatino, Georgia and Arial.

Comments and feedback can be sent to bikal.gurung at lemaetech.co.uk