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F# Discoveries This Week 05/02/2010

Posted Sunday, May 02, 2010 5:43 PM by RickM
Back this week with another huge batch of F# links.  While there’s way too much great stuff to mention, my favorite this week is by a mysterious blogger known only as James.  His heat transfer model is short, sweet and very well explained. If Read More...
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Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing in C# and F#

Posted Monday, December 28, 2009 2:21 PM by RickM
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 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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Discoveries This Week 05/24/2009

Posted Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:24 PM by RickM
An exciting week with the release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and F# 1.9.6.16.  This week we have John Backus’s classic FP manifesto,  Luke Hoban speaks on F# in VS2010 beta 1, Django for ASP.NET, and an article on breaking changes in the latest Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 03/20/2009

Posted Sunday, March 22, 2009 4:09 PM by RickM
This week there seems to be quite a bit of video and audio content to share.  We have a dramatic depiction of the benefits of Units of Measure, Luke Hoban on F#’s feature, Ted Neward talks about F# under the hood and finally a discussion on operator Read More...
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What Would You Want From a F# User Group?

Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:39 AM by RickM
Michael de la Maza , Talbott Crowell and I are all very excited about finally getting our F# User Group off the ground.  However, as F# groups are currently few and far between, we are very interested in finding out what attendees would want from 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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Why OO may not suck, or, Take a ride on the Falsus Omnibus

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:00 AM by RickM
This post is in response to Joe Armstrong’s Why OO Sucks .  While I feel that Joe’s post reads more like an sermon than a stream of rational thought, it does bring up a number of misconceptions I feel many people in the functional programming world 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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F# and Haskell, Estranged Cousins

Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 3:24 PM by RickM
In this post I compare and contrast Haskell and F#. It may come as no surprise that with so much shared history they share so much in common. However, it’s interesting to consider how the perspectives of the languages’ developers play a large role in 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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Discoveries This Week 01/09/2008

Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 11:37 AM by RickM
It’s been a very exciting week. I actually had more things to post than time would allow me to write about. I’ll have to save them for next time. Blog: Daniel Spiewak’s What is Hindley-Milner? (and why is it cool?) Hindley-Milner is the algorithm all Read More...
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F# at Code Camp 10 In Waltham, MA

Posted Friday, September 19, 2008 4:02 PM by RickM
I'll be at New England Code Camp 10 tomorrow giving another talk about functional programming and concurrency in F#. It will be fairly similar to my previous talks in terms of ideas and content, however, I have put a lot of work into making the functional Read More...
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Attachment(s): September 19th Presentation.zip

How to set up your own free VSLab-based Matlab/Mathematica replacement

Posted Monday, September 08, 2008 10:48 AM by RickM
VSLab has just been updated with full support for Visual Studio 2008 Shell and the F# CTP release. It has been a rough couple of weeks for the VSLab team as F# CTP changed a number of things and they have been working hard to put together a compatible Read More...
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