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F# Discoveries This Week 11/30/2009

Posted Monday, November 30, 2009 11:44 AM by RickM
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 Read More...
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F# Discoveries This Week 11/22/2009

Posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:49 PM by RickM
Over this past week at PDC I was lucky enough to see some fantastic sessions and spend time with members of the F# and greater Visual Studio language teams.  Naturally, these experiences have left me both floored and swimming in new ideas.  Read More...
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PDC09 Keynote Day 2 – Silverlight 4.0 and Free Laptops?!

Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:04 PM by RickM
Say goodbye to WinForms, WPF, and maybe even AJAX.  Today Scott “The Gu” Guthrie took the stage and blew everyone away with the extensive desktop-app replacing features of Silverlight 4.   This occurred directly after the exciting announcement Read More...
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PDC09 Keynote: Open Source, Open Platforms and the Democratization of Data

Posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:25 PM by RickM
No one was surprised this year at PDC when it was revealed that the theme for the show was to be Azure and cloud computing.  What did raise some eyebrows (including my own) was Microsoft’s new found attitude towards interoperability with other technologies.  Read More...
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F# - Designing Functional Interfaces for Pipelining

Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:58 PM by RickM
So you have an Object Oriented library but yet want to be able to use F#’s functional pipelining feature to design expressive data processing workflows.  How do you go about it? First, lets set a goal.  Some low hanging fruit so to speak.  Read More...
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F# Discoveries This Week 11/09/2009

Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 11:24 AM by RickM
As momentum builds for the F# release with Visual Studio 2010, so too does the number of people blogging about the language.  This week we have a spec update, clarified comparisons, decision trees, porting gotchas and in depth explorations of the Read More...
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F# Discoveries This Week 11/02/2009

Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 10:05 AM by RickM
F# events are popping up all over the place and so I’ve included a separate section for them today.  As far as posts go I’ve stumbled across immutable queue and range libraries,  a post on the underlying implementation of discriminated unions, Read More...
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