Just a quick note to mention that I will be speaking to The Developers Group on the 14th Mar about NoSQL Databases and how to use them to solve common web use cases. In this session I’ll give an overview of the NoSQL movement and compare the different types of NoSQL databases and their relative [...]

This will be the last post on rebuilding the MailboxProcessor using TDF, here’s a quick discussion of the missing pieces… First, lets start with the simple ones, these don’t really require much discussion. DefaultTimeout 1 2 3 4 5 let mutable defaultTimeout = Timeout.Infinite member x.DefaultTimeout with get() = defaultTimeout and set(value) = defaultTimeout <- value This simply provides a mutable property using Timeout.Infinite as a default setting. CurrentQueueLength 1 member x.CurrentQu[...]

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For Functional Programming eXchange 2012 and I’ve tried to put together a programming that mixes the best the functional programming community has to give. I wanted both talks that show how functional programming languages can be used more effectively and that show off new up and coming language and new language features. I also wanted talks that gave feedback from project that were implemented using functional languages. I’m pleased to say we have plenty of both. The day will kick off with David Pollak t[...]