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 illness but with my audience's help I was able to pull together with a decent presentation. I am ...

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 F# is and why it's important- A very basic rundown of F# syntax- The ease of ...

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 ...

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 ...