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 he would need a compelling reason to bring F# on board.  This presentation is dedicated to ...

This week we have RegEx Processing, Infinite Types, and some mathy code sample blogs I’ve stumbled upon.   Steve Horsfield has completed his F# Regular Expression Processor This post completes this mini-series on regular expression processing in F#.  You can find the complete source code here as well.  It has been a good ...

With the impending release of Visual Studio 2010, the F# Community continues to wind up.  This week we have finally gotten our F# User Group Videos up.  In addition, we also have a wide ranging selection of fresh F# content including Units of Measure, XML parsing, WPF Games and Pattern Matching.   New England F# User Group Talks ...

Another great week in F#.  Most importantly, it is now known that the language will continue to be available for free, despite productization.  Also, the F# PowerPack is now available for VS2010 beta and the MSDN documentation is up.   Tore Green asks Don Syme “will F# continue to be freely available?” Free options will ...

A few weeks off left me with renewed vigor.  This week we have some very interesting posts on reflective and reactive programming, enhancing F# by adding additional operators, IL analysis via simulation and finally, observations on the productization of F#.   Luke Hoban’s Lang.NET presentation on the productization of F# A set of ...

In the image processing world, like most computational problems, we often think our work is composed of only two basic ideas: representation and transformation.  Of course, one may have many layers of both representations of transformations and transformations of representations which can make things appear quite complex at times. ...

With the start of our F# User’s Group this next Monday and New England Code Camp 11 last weekend, things have been extremely busy this past week.  Meanwhile, the F# sociocosm is growing at a rapid pace.  This week we have a talk by Don Syme, a look at F# quotations, and finally, some discussion on Seq.unfold.   Chris Bowen’s Post, ...

At this Saturday’s Code Camp I’ll be giving a brand new presentation on using F#.  The goal of this presentation is to have those attending leave with an idea of what F# can help them achieve today as well as instill a desire to know more.  This post contains my presentation materials as well as links to additional information on the ...

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 it seems obvious that I’ve been missing one of the major tenets of making great ...

This week we have ActionScript byte code manipulation, COM interop in F#, a quick look at the option type, and finally, a very elegant cross product implementation. Blog – Luis Diego Fallas’s Manipulating AVM2 byte code with F# This article focuses on using AbcExplorationLib to parse AVM2 ActionScript byte code.   AbcExplorationLib is ...