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Latest News and Blog Posts
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Back again with another F# community roundup. There’s been a ton of great content this week, almost too much. To try to combat this I’ve attempted to sort posts roughly in terms of how interesting I found them. All were worth the...
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I learned something today about the humble slash character: /. First, let me say that to me, / is always pronounced ‘slash’. This is due to my first encountering of this character as a path separator in UNIX when I worked at Bell Labs. ...
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Many apologies if I missed your post. Having skipped last week due to some uncontrollable circumstances left me with quite a large number to sort through. My personal favorite this week is Ashley Feniello’s series. SICP eat your heart...
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One common task in working with images is, given a file or a set of files, read in each page, perform some operation on it and write it as a page in a target file. This is tricky to do out of the box in dotImage in that a lot of the onus of memory management...
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On Wednesday, I’ll be leading a session at The Architect Factory event in Cambridge, MA. My topic is Persuading Product/Project Managers and is in the Architecture Leadership track. I’ll be covering: What is a Product Manager? How Product Managers think...
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On Stack Overflow , a user asked how to create vignettes in .NET. I wrote up this answer , which explains the math and the general approach. To give you an idea of what this looks like, here is the output of an application which applies the vignette...
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Back again this week with a fresh batch of F# Posts, Videos and Events. I’ve been enjoying Matthew Podwysocki’s “Much Ado About Monads” series quite a lot. They are well worth checking out for beginner and advanced alike. Events If...
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Windows IT Pro published a checklist for SharePoint Document Management . It covers some of the things you need to think about in addition to just adopting SharePoint (storage, interoperability, backup, security, etc) Those things are important, but instead...
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It’s 2010, the year of F#, and the quantity of posts in this last week reflects it. Not to pick favorites but the work Tomas Petricek has been doing with Accelerator is amazing, be sure to check it out. Also, I’d like to thank everyone who supported...
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(Alternate Title: An Obvious Lesson in Customer Service.) We use W.B. Mason for our office supply company. My predecessor used them here and there, and I started using them more regularly when price shopping at B.J.’s and CostCo became a pain. They matched...
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Many years ago, I had the pleasure of working at Murray Hill Bell Labs. My job, of all things, was making violins, but that’s a story for another time. My office was in section D of the 5th floor of building 2, which was also where the UNIX...
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Last year, around this time, I did a 2008 retrospective with one blog post from each of the blogs hosted by Atalasoft. Here is my 2009 version. Atalasoft Office Blog This year, Christina (our Vizit Marketing Manager among other things) started an office...
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It’s been a bit of a light week with the holidays. Although, for the truly dedicated, that’s just a chance to get some quality time in with with a favorite programming language (or to write a poem about it). Tomas Petricek uses Accelerator...
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Recently I’ve been working with some local search techniques and wanted to share my Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing solution. The general idea of Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing is that in each iteration of the hill climbing process you apply a set of transforms...
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As 2009 comes to a close, I want to take this opportunity to wish you a happy holiday and thank you. You have helped fulfill my vision when I set out on this entrepreneurial journey ten years ago. That vision was to become the leading provider of .NET...
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By far the most exciting news this week was the preview release of Microsoft Research Accelerator. Posts on this topic by Satnam Signh and Tomas Petricek have left the F# world buzzing. This, however, is just the tip of the F# iceberg. ...
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Since the infamous Bacon Day of October 2009 , we’ve had 2 delicious pounds of bacon sitting in our office. Simply sitting there, collecting whatever it is that bacon collects when it’s resting. (Delicious bacteria?) We’ve been debating what to do with...
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I was thinking about how I handle support cases, and it tickled me that I often follow the Kübler-Ross model of grief , although I prefer the steps outlined by Dr. Hibbert in “ The Deadly Blowfish ”: Dr. H: Now, a little death anxiety is normal. You can...
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I was writing some property heavy code and I realized that if I can write this code: public void SetFoo( int x) { } public void SetFoo( double y) { } public void SetFoo(Rational z) { } then I really want to have this syntax: public int Foo { get { /*...
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An almost overwhelming number of posts this week with topics including the Skills Matter Programming Exchange, LAgent, data structures, service oriented architecture, monads, infinite sequences, timing F# functions, functional design, and much more. ...
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I was working on a project this week that required some RC4 (SARC, ARC4, ARCFOUR) encryption. In looking around, I didn’t find a public version that I liked, so working from Wikipedia, I created my own. This version is in C# and I tried to...
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We have a great selection of links this week with topics including discriminated unions, equality and comparison constraints, purely functional data structures, a language performance comparison, and a couple of 1.9.7.8 compatibility tweaks for XNA and...
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A critical piece of any ECM is robust search capabilities. With SharePoint 2007, Microsoft scores well in search according to Gartner in their ECM Magic Quadrant , but will fair even better next year with the enhanced search features in SharePoint 2010....
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A great deal going on this past week with Chris Smith releasing the source samples for Programming F#, Julien Ortin writing a spelling corrector, Matthew Moloney exploring the Azure worker role, Steve Gilham playing with NDepend and a flurry of Reactive...
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If you’ve had an issue with one of our products or attended a webinar , chances are you’ve spoken with Elaine. She is the head of support and works with Kevin to help you, our customers, do what you need to do. I’m very impressed at how well...
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