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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# and You! - New Hampshire User’s Group and Beyond

Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 12:24 PM by RickM
I’ve been working for a while on a new presentation which I was finally able to give last week at the New Hampshire .NET User Group .  F# and You! focuses on painting the big picture about F# instead of the off-putting details like having to learn Read More...
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Code Camp 12: Boston – Why F#?

Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 11:18 AM by RickM
A couple of months ago I was talking to Lou Franco , the head of our Software Engineering department and fellow functional programming enthusiast, about the possibility of using F# for projects in the future.  Being business minded, he replied that Read More...
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F# Discoveries This Week 08/23/2009

Posted Sunday, August 23, 2009 10:18 PM by RickM
This week Steve Horsfield continues his adventures with WPF while Matthew Podwysocki posts more on the .NET Event Model. Meanwhile, John Harrop shares a video tutorial on F# interactive and Chris Smith provokes meta discussion on the best way to present 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

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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The Future of Programming Languages

Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:18 AM by RickM
Yesterday, my coworker Lou Franco pointed me to a fantastic talk by Anders Hejlsberg on the future of programming languages . In this talk Anders argues that the future of programming language development will be focused on three events: the explosion 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

More F# At Code Camp Hartford

Posted Saturday, August 16, 2008 2:03 PM by RickM
I am down in Bloomfield, CT today at Hartford CodeCamp which has been put on by the Connecticut .NET Developer's Group . I just gave a very similar version my talk on the 5th. The room was completely full and I was a bit weak and foggy from my recent Read More...
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Attachment(s): August 15th Presentation.zip

Talkin Bout' F# - Presenting at the Western Mass .NET Users's Group

Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:36 AM by RickM
I'm going to be giving a presentation at the my local .NET User's group tonight. The goal of my talk will be to expose the audience to F# as well as some Functional Programming Ideas. Here's a basic rundown of what the talk is about (in order): - What Read More...
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Attachment(s): August 5th Presentation.zip

10 Hours in F#: Exploring Concurrency Through An Ant Colony Simulation

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 3:33 PM by RickM
Synopsis I gave an hour long talk today, here at Atalasoft, on Concurrency in F# . It featured some slides and a small ant colony simulation to demonstrate different kinds of threading. Overall, I liked developing in F# quite a bit; however, puzzling Read More...
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