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 through the interpreter errors was a brutal process indeed.   You can grab my ...

One of the most often cited reasons to not use .NET is that it is initially compiled to an intermediary language (MSIL) and has to be recompiled every time you run it. In many high performance environments this wasted time is simply unacceptable. To combat this Microsoft released a tool with .NET 1.1 called NGen (Native Image Generator) which ...

Last night the wmassdevs Group hosted a Clojure presentation by Rich Hickey. Clojure was born of Rich's dissatisfaction with the current state of the concurrent programming and so was built from the ground up around the idea of making this task less painful. Previously, I had never really looked closely at Clojure but I was struck by some of the ...