In this post we are going back to the primitive. No it’s not about the same named song by Soulfly, (which incidenta

Last year, my wonderful peers in Microsoft Research developed the first versions of TouchDevelop, a touch-based programming environment. You can now find out all about TouchDevelop at the one big URL: www.touchdevelop.com and follow them on Twitter at @touchdevelop. Well done to the whole TouchDevelop team, and to Microsoft Connections for supporting this project. I'm sure many great things are coming for TouchDevelop from here!

Slightly off topic... The "debugging options" got turned on in my browser recently. I think this happened when I was debugging some web code in Visual Studio. From this, it's been interesting to see how regularly my web browsing experience is now interrupted by what must surely be outright bugs in Javascript code. Very often these are null object errors. I've always been more than sceptical about Javascript as a language for writing reliable, correct, reusable, efficient code (something F# is obviously goo[...]

Upcoming Speaking Engagements: I’m very excited to be giving the Keynote at the first Great Lakes Functional Programming Conference, I’d suggest signing up but it’s already sold out! I’ve spent a ton of time over the last few months helping put together the first ever F# conference in the USA. Many of the most well [...]