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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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Discoveries This Week 05/01/2009

Posted Sunday, May 03, 2009 6:58 PM by RickM
A few weeks off left me with renewed vigor. This week we have some very interesting posts on reflective and reactive programming, enhancing F# by adding additional operators, IL analysis via simulation and finally, observations on the productization of Read More...
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Image Processing as Sets of Transformations

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 8:21 PM by RickM
In the image processing world, like most computational problems, we often think our work is composed of only two basic ideas: representation and transformation. Of course, one may have many layers of both representations of transformations and transformations Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 04/03/2009

Posted Saturday, April 04, 2009 9:42 PM by RickM
With the start of our F# User’s Group this next Monday and New England Code Camp 11 last weekend , things have been extremely busy this past week. Meanwhile, the F# sociocosm is growing at a rapid pace. This week we have a talk by Don Syme, a look at Read More...
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F# for Testing and Analysis at Code Camp 11 New England

Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 6:36 PM by RickM
At this Saturday’s Code Camp I’ll be giving a brand new presentation on using F#.  The goal of this presentation is to have those attending leave with an idea of what F# can help them achieve today as well as instill a desire to know more.  Read More...
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As a FP Ambassador - F# for Testing and Analysis at Code Camp 11

Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:00 PM by RickM
Over the last six months I’ve given variations on the same F# presentation on six separate occasions. Each time I’ve gotten a similar response: enthusiasm from a small percentage of the audience and glazed-over stares from the majority. In retrospect Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 03/13/2009

Posted Saturday, March 14, 2009 5:14 PM by RickM
This week we have ActionScript byte code manipulation, COM interop in F#, a quick look at the option type, and finally, a very elegant cross product implementation. Blog – Luis Diego Fallas’s Manipulating AVM2 byte code with F# This article focuses on Read More...
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Let’s Wax Functional 03/06/2009

Posted Saturday, March 07, 2009 6:09 PM by RickM
This week we have MapReduce, WebTools and yet another F# to C# language comparison. I spent yesterday at a seminar led by Michael de la Maza . He, Talbot Crowell and I will soon be starting a F# user’s group in Boston, Massachusetts. I’m interested in Read More...
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Functional Discoveries in the Microsoft Sociocosm 02/20/2009

Posted Friday, February 20, 2009 12:41 PM by RickM
This week we have practical examples of Lazy Evaluation with Memoization, an interview with Don Syme and a discussion on the Visitor Pattern’s place in F#.  Also, any comments on the new title for my weekly posting would be appreciated.   Forum Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 02/13/2009

Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 10:43 AM by RickM
A wide range of subjects this week including testing, concurrent performance, exception handing and data structures.   Software – FsStory, a library for writing executable user stories in F# I feel that F#, with it’s concise syntax, is an ideal framework Read More...
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One of these languages is not like the others - Part 1 - Enforcement of Abstract Implementation

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:47 AM by RickM
This is the first in a series of posts on the topic of interaction between different .NET languages.  I will cover all of the major Microsoft languages: C#, Visual Basic, F# and C++/CLI. In this first post in the series I will build a four language Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 02/06/2009

Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 11:24 AM by RickM
Some interesting gems this week. Revit, Closures and MathTools won the day. However, I do hope you'll take a look at the IL post as well. Blog – Jeremy Tammik’s Use F# Directly in Revit In Jeremy’s post he discusses what is initially necessary to get Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 01/30/2009

Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 2:46 PM by RickM
The beauty of clean syntax and deep abstraction is an often overlooked feature of functional programming.  As they say, people come to functional programming for the concurrency but stay for the beautiful code (actually, I just made that up).  Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 01/23/2009

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 1:17 PM by RickM
Another very exciting week.  I’ve barely had time to catch my breath. Meanwhile I’ve decided to take my weekly roundup post consistently in the direction of functional programming in the Microsoft universe for the foreseeable future.  This will Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 01/16/2009

Posted Friday, January 16, 2009 11:17 AM by RickM
This week’s theme is functional programming.  Included are discussions on Software Transactional Memory, Functional Architecture and the impact of the CLR on functional Programming in .NET.   Blog: Brandon Werner’s Software Transactional Memory: Read More...
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