My friend Antonio Cisternino recently pointed me to FSCL - a compiler from F# to OpenCL. Here is the abstract from the documentation for the compiler: https://t.co/vHQPzsxE0O. The project currently seems to live here: https://github.com/GabrieleCocco/ Nowadays, OpenCL is one of the most popular programming frameworks for high-performance computing over multicore and many-core devices. Thanks to OpenCL,different parallel architectures coming from an heterogeneous set of brands and companies can be programme[...]

Following on from my last post on formatting a Markdown document into PDF using FSharp.Markdown.Pdf, if you don’t like the default styling (which I tried to mimic style Github formats Markdown documents with) you can set your own styling for the different types of Markdown elements by going down a level of abstraction. The FSharp.Markdown.Pdf.MarkdownStyleNames [...]

I stumbled across a set of slides with a rather comprehensive overview of the different aspects of S3, worthwhile reading for anyone who works with Amazon S3 regularly. Enjoy! Masterclass Webinar: Amazon S3 from Amazon Web Services

There’s been a fair bit of activity lately from a project called ScriptCS, it allows you to put together a project using C# as a lightweight scripting language, forgoing the use of Visual Studio which can sometimes be too bloated and bulky. It also allows you to use C# in a Read Evaluate Print Loop - REPL. This is nothing new to F# and indeed lots of other languages have REPL’s too. One of the other benefits of ScriptCs is that it also integrates nicely with Nuget allowing you to use your favourite [...]