Microsoft Research are accepting applications for internships at our research lab in Cambridge, UK, for internships in Summer 2014. Applicants must currently be pursuing a Masters or PhD in Computer Science. More details on applying can be found here:http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/jobs/intern/about_uk.aspx This year, I personally am particularly interested in sponsoring internship applications in one or more of...

We are excited to announce the first release of CloudSharper Local, a spin-off of CloudSharper that uses your local machine to serve the main CloudSharper front-end. CloudSharper is an awesome new way to work with F# on the web. It enables you to use F# to easily connect to various data sources and visualize data from those data sources in rich HTML5 charts and diagrams. You can also develop HTML5 games, web and mobile applications in pure F# code, and you will feel more productive than ever. CloudSharper[...]

Suppose you want to merge an assembly A (AssemblyA.dll) with another assembly B (AssemblyB.dll) with ILMerge into a merged assembly (Merged.dll), and everything works fine until the user of your merged assembly also references that AssemblyB.dll, at which point that user will get Ambiguous reference errors for any reference to types defined in assembly B, [...]

I gave a talk about our use of F# at last year’s CodeMesh event, and the recording is now up on Vimeo. Yan Cui — F# in Social Gaming from Erlang Solutions on Vimeo.   You can also find the slides for the talk up on SlideShare:   F# in social gaming from Yan Cui

One of the pitfalls with LINQ which I have fallen into on multiple occasions is around the use of the OfType<T> extension method with dictionaries. Either through carelessness or changes to the underlying variable (a class property being changed from list to dictionary for instance) I have ended up using OfType<…> on a dictionary which [...]