The F# Open Engineering Group has an excellent new website and a blog post explaining How to Contribute to the F# Language, Compiler and Core Library Implementation, including impressive details on How you can contribute to the F# Language, Compiler and C[...]

Like many a good man, I too got caught into the 2048 trap, which explains in part why I have been rather quiet on this blog lately (there are a couple other reasons, too). In case you don't know what 2048 is yet, first, consider yourself lucky - and, fa[...]

With the FAKE 2.18.1 we now have 80 contributors. A big thanks to all of you. Here are the most important changes since my last blog post about FAKE 2.14. What’s new? New (backwards compatible) CLI #455 - see new docs Visual Basic support to AssemblyFileI[...]

Quick intro to categories Category theory is a topic from pure math but don’t fear – the basic stuff is not that hard to grasp. And the domain (Types in programming languagues or Haskell in this case) should be well … Weiterlesen →

Version 0.9.12 of CloudSharper alpha is out!

Mpir.NET is a .NET wrapper for the high performance multi precision integer library MPIR, which in turn is a Windows friendly fork of GMP. As noted in my previous post, High performance large integers in .NET, it would be highly desirable to have a large [...]

Since I have experienced the same error more than three times while creating Windows Service (.NET 3.5) on Visual Studio 2012 and/or 2013, I think I should post a solution here for my quick reference. If you create a Windows Service and target .NET 3.5 on[...]

Cory House gave a good talk titled “Becoming an Outlier: Career Reboot for the Developer Mind“ at this year’s NDC Oslo conference (there’s really so many to choose from!) and it’s one that has really resonated with me as it aligns with many of my personal[...]

When you’re playing with the sort of big integers used in, for example, cryptography, 64 bits just aren’t enough. In this post, I’ll compare and benchmark some of the alternatives that take .NET numerics beyond 64 bits. The benchmark results turn out to b[...]

I thought it would be nice to share some of the technical books that I have learnt most from, and still love to look through or use as reference to this day.   These are in no particular order and cover a variety of technical subjects, and some are far fr[...]