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June 2009 - Posts

Discoveries This Week 06/21/2009

Posted Sunday, June 21, 2009 9:22 PM by RickM
Almost too much to keep up with this week.  Most notably, Roger Castillo gave a fantastic talk on F#’s Language Oriented Programming features.  Also interesting, the Microsoft Research F7 project, Symbolic Differentiation, and tail call optimized Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 06/14/2009

Posted Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:09 PM by RickM
Another great week in F#.  Most importantly, it is now known that the language will continue to be available for free, despite productization.  Also, the F# PowerPack is now available for VS2010 beta and the MSDN documentation is up.   Read More...
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Code Camp Hartford 2 Presentation – F# for Testing and Analytics (June 13th)

Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 3:22 PM by RickM
I will be speaking at tomorrow’s Code Camp Hartford 2 on the topic of using F# for the Testing and Analysis of existing code. This talk will be composed of much of the same material I used at Code Camp Waltham 11 , although I will be preparing additional Read More...
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Attachment(s): F# for Testing and Analysis.pdf

A Short History of Programming Languages

Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:42 PM by RickM
Recently, I was reading David R. Tribble’s annotated version of Dijkstra’s famous letter “Go To Statement Considered Harmful”.  While in the process of reading, it occurred to me that I did not really understand the history of language abstraction.  Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 06/07/2009

Posted Sunday, June 07, 2009 6:21 PM by RickM
There has been a huge spike in the number of F# posts over this past couple of weeks.  For this post I have chosen those I think are most important for the experienced F# programmer to read.  This week we have Common mistakes, the inner workings Read More...
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.NET 2.0 ActiveX Control Gotchas (Safe for Scripting and Hooking into Events)

Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:41 PM by RickM
I’ve recently been building an ActiveX Control in .NET 2.0 and thought I would share some of the problems I’ve run into, as well as their solutions.  I hope that in reading this you can avoid a few of the timesinks I fell into.    Safe Read More...
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