Back this week with another huge batch of F# links.  While there’s way too much great stuff to mention, my favorite this week is by a mysterious blogger known only as James.  His heat transfer model is short, sweet and very well explained. If you’re around Boston tomorrow (Monday) be sure to check our F# panel for .NET Rocks!  With ...

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, ...

So you have an Object Oriented library but yet want to be able to use F#’s functional pipelining feature to design expressive data processing workflows.  How do you go about it? First, lets set a goal.  Some low hanging fruit so to speak.  Let’s pretend we have a set of images we want to load, resize, intensify and save as Png ...

An exciting week with the release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and F# 1.9.6.16.  This week we have John Backus’s classic FP manifesto,  Luke Hoban speaks on F# in VS2010 beta 1, Django for ASP.NET, and an article on breaking changes in the latest F# release.   John Backus – Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ...

This week there seems to be quite a bit of video and audio content to share.  We have a dramatic depiction of the benefits of Units of Measure, Luke Hoban on F#’s feature, Ted Neward talks about F# under the hood and finally a discussion on operator type inference.   Video Blog – Could F# have saved the Mars Climate Orbiter? A ...

Michael de la Maza, Talbott Crowell and I are all very excited about finally getting our F# User Group off the ground.  However, as F# groups are currently few and far between, we are very interested in finding out what attendees would want from such a group.   Where and When? In terms of broad time frame, we are looking at having ...

This week we have MapReduce, WebTools and yet another F# to C# language comparison.  I spent yesterday at a seminar led by Michael de la Maza.  He, Talbot Crowell and I will soon be starting a F# user’s group in Boston, Massachusetts.  I’m interested in any comments you might have.  Please feel free to send me an email if you ...

This post is in response to Joe Armstrong’s Why OO Sucks.  While I feel that Joe’s post reads more like an sermon than a stream of rational thought, it does bring up a number of misconceptions I feel many people in the functional programming world share and which need to be discussed openly if it and the object oriented world are to come to ...

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 ...

The beauty of clean syntax and deep abstraction is an often overlooked feature of functional programming.  As they say, people come to functional programming for the concurrency but stay for the beautiful code (actually, I just made that up).  Also included: POPL 2009, S#arp and functional unit testing.   Blog - Matthew ...