F# Discoveries This Week 07/23/2010

RickM — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:54:12 GMT

One of my favorite things about the F# community is that its members tend to build things that are a bit more interesting, and think about concepts that are a bit deeper. This week is no exception. Come on in and see what’s been happening in the F# world.

A quick note to those giving F# talks or running events: If you would like listed here please don’t hesitate to contact me via the email link at the top of the page. I’d love to help you help others to learn F#.

Events

Nashville Geek Lunch 11:30 AM Next Tuesday (7/27/2010)

Articles

Tomas Petricek’s The Duality of Object and Event references

In this article, I'll talk about an interesting example of duality that (to my best knowledge) wasn't described by anyone before. The two dual structures are references between objects in a normal program and references between events in a reactive application.

Marius Bancila’s Resources for the F# Presentation at Ronua Roadshow

The program that I shown exhibits traits of both functional (for computing the fractal) and object oriented (for displaying the fractal) paradigms.

Neil Carrier’s A Two-Instruction Virtual RISC

One of my favorite hobbies is building really tiny virtual computers. The experience has even paid off a time or two when I needed to create a compact domain-specific language (DSL).

Neil Carrier’s F#'s Little-Known (?) and (?<-) Operators

These two operators work similar to the C/C++ “stringizing” pre-processor operator. That is, they convert non-string code (limited to simple identifiers in the case of F#) into strings according to the following translation patterns:

Julien Ortin’s Arbitraging bookmakers with F#

The principle is rather simple. Take the best quotes for each outcome, and process. If the sum of 1/quote_i is less than one, an arbitrage opportunity exists. The amount to bet on each outcome is 100/quote.

Vladimir Matveev’s Tricky late binding operators

F# Dynamic and DynamicAssignment operators are not as simple as they appear ex facte. Most popular sample of their usage is something like this:

Vladimir Matveev’s Playing with WebSharper

As a sample we’ll make simple StickyNotes application. Web design is not my primary and favorite skill, so I'll omit cross-browser compatibility and bind all styles to Firefox.

Naveen Srinivasan’s Using F# to Automate Reading–The Morning Brew

I like to try and automate most of the stuff . So I thought why not write a script that reads the Morning Brew feed, filter the excluded content that I am not interested in and open the urls before I come in.

Steve Gilham’s Building PartCover 4 on Vista

Following on from earlier in the week, I pulled the current trunk from SourceForge, and set about building it then putting it to work on some F# code which had caused an earlier version (the most recent available at the end of last year) to balk.

Gert-Jan van der Kamp’s Using a DataReader like a list in F#

This article demonstrates a technique how you can write recursive algorithms in F# using a Reader instead of a list, so you don't have to load all your data into memory first.

Steve Jenson’s Building F# on Mac OS X

Joe says his team at Microsoft runs into these issues often with users and was kind enough to walk me through the steps to get F# running on the mac.

Rick Minerich's Development Wonderland : RISC

F# Discoveries This Week 07/23/2010

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