Back again this week with a fresh batch of F# Posts, Videos and Events.  I’ve been enjoying Matthew Podwysocki’s “Much Ado About Monads” series quite a lot.  They are well worth checking out for beginner and advanced alike.   Events If you would like to see your event here, send me an email via the link at the top of the page. ...

I’ve been working for a while on a new presentation which I was finally able to give last week at the New Hampshire .NET User Group.  F# and You! focuses on painting the big picture about F# instead of the off-putting details like having to learn new syntax.   For this new presentation I start by discussing the adoption of ...

Tomorrow Matthew Podwysocki will be speaking at the New England F# User Group.  I also have some great links today with Don Syme at QCon08, why we need the rec keyword, regular expression parsing and graphing with GLEE.   Tomorrow @ FSUG: Matthew Podwysocki on Parallelism in F# With the increasing amount of data available to us, we ...

I blogged recently about testing parallel code in NUnit. I think I settled with requirements: I want to use threads; I want to use assertions in threads; I want to control how threads step on each other; Too bad that solutions I tested did not fit 100%. So I came up with a small (200 lines of code) tool called “Sync” that meets my ...

Last time I blogged about a way to make concurrent unit tests deterministic. This time I’d like to focus on the technical aspects, namely NUnit. Let us start with the following test: [Test] public void TestThread() { int n = 0; var thread1 = new Thread(() => { n ...