This creature is capable of tremendous destruction due to it’s size, flight (with the creature’s wings also generating hurricane strength winds) and possesses several breath weapons (e.g., heat and energy). What am I talking about here? Maybe it’s Monster Zero or King Ghidorah as it’s sometimes known. No it’s TPL Dataflow!

The F# community member John Liao has blogged about using the Riak distributed database system with F#. From Wikipedia: Riak is a NoSQL database implementing the principles from Amazon's Dynamo paper. Lately, I have been reading the book  Signals and Noise by Nate Silver.  His book references an IBM  webpage that claims the world is creating 2.5 quintillion (1018) bytes of data a day and that 90% of the data that currently exists the world was created in the past two years.  Combine this fact with the ris[...]

What’s 100 meters high and weighs in at around 60,000 tons? No its not Godzilla, its Reactive extensions! Lately on one of my projects I have been doing a lot of stream manipulation, and although I solved the problem quite easily using F# async workflows, there were other solutions available to help solve the problem. I could of used things like async await, TPL Dataflow(TDF), and Reactive Extensions (Rx). This is going to be a short post on using Rx with F#.

In April, at the Xamarin Evolve conference, Xamarin announced support for the F# language as part of the Xamarin tools for iOS and Android app programming. Microsoft were Platinum sponsors of Xamarin Evolve.   This Thursday at the F#unctional Londoners' Meetup we have Neil Danson on F# on iPad and iPhone in Xamarin Studio. Neil Danson will take you through developing apps for iPad and iPhone with F# using Xamarin Studio. See also http://fsharp.org/use/ios/ Bio: Neil Danson is a Senior Software Developer an[...]