ICFP Programming Contest
This years' installment of the ICFP Programming Contest is coming up this weekend. For those who haven't had the chance to try out this programming contest before, I definitely recommend it. I've...
View ArticleF# September 2008 CTP – Known Issues
We released the F# CTP a few weeks ago, and have been receiving tons of great feedback from F# developers since. Here are some of the common issues which we've been asked about. We'll continue to add...
View ArticleStandard Deviation and Event-based Programming
A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to do a really fun presentation on F# at the .NET Meetup in New York. At the end, I got a great question, which I talked about a little at the presentation,...
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F# on Windows Azure
Windows Azure was announced yesterday, and along with it, the first CTP of the SDK and Visual Studio tools. If you haven’t yet tried it, go take a look. On top of serving as a hosting service for web...
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F# in Silverlight
Over the last couple years, there has been an explosion of interest in Silverlight. As a .NET-based runtime, it is possible to compile Silverlight applications with any .NET language, and we’ve seen a...
View ArticleICFP Programming Contest 2009
This year’s ICFP Programming Contest starts today. We’ve got a team participating, any other F# teams out there? Last year, I posted an F# implementation of the 2006 ICFP contest problem, which was...
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F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming – PDC 2009
Last November at PDC 2009 in Los Angeles I gave a talk on F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming. Video of the talk is available online at http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT20. Slides and...
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F# Scaling from Explorative to .NET Component – F# Talk @ TechEd 2010
Last Thursday I gave an F# talk at TechEd New Orleans titled "F# in Visual Studio 2010". The talk aimed to highlight a few ideas: F# enables exciting new developer scenarios in Visual Studio...
View ArticleTwitter OAuth in F#
I have a few F# demos which use the Twitter APIs as simple examples of accessing online data interactively and working with it in F#. Recently, Twitter moved to require OAuth for accessing Twitter...
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Benoit Mandelbrot
I just read that earlier today, Benoît Mandelbrot passed away. Mandelbrot’s most famous discovery, the Mandelbrot fractal, played an important early role in my interest in both programming and...
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