As promised, a fresh batch of links to sooth your aching desire for more F#.  I’m particularly excited to announce I’ll give giving a F# tutorial this year at the Commercial Users of Functional Programming conference.  CUFP is going to have a lot of great content this year and will be well worth attending for anyone interested in ...

Despite the small number of talks on F#, it seemed the language was on everyone’s lips this TechEd.  Whether working at the Visual Studio Languages booth or hanging out at the parties afterward, almost everyone I talked to was actively investigating or making plans to explore the language.  Of course, this is great news.  A quiet ...

It’s been a bit of a light week with the holidays.  Although, for the truly dedicated, that’s just a chance to get some quality time in with with a favorite programming language (or to write a poem about it).   Tomas Petricek uses Accelerator in a GPU Game of Life simulation This article is the second one from a series about using ...

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 to your input data and select the best result via a fitness function.  This result, ...

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 F# and Revit working together.  He also provides a sample of a Revit ...

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: Debunked! In starting with a title that is decidedly sensationalistic, Brandon effectively ...

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 these fancy programming languages like F# and Haskell for type ...