Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 wurde vorgestern released und so trifft es sich das gerade jetzt die NavTechDays 2012 in Antwerpen stattfinden. Hier meine Notizen nach fast einem Tag Konferenz. Allgemeines Das NAV Menü ist bekanntermaßen sehr umfangreich -> N[...]

A fascinating slide deck of financial programming wizardry by Daniel Egloff of Quantlea at the NVIDIA Global Technology Conference, 2012, showing the real-world power of F# as a tool when applied in the GPGPU programming space: Title:  New Generation GPU [...]

In order to simplify the access of the FSharpx type providers I separated them into their own nuget packages. From now on we have: FSharpx.TypeProviders.AppSettings which generates setters and getters for application settings files. [Read more] FSharpx.Ty[...]

This year I had the privilege of attending and speaking at the Strangeloop conference in St Louis. The venues, the Union Street Marriot (a National Historic Landmark), and the Peabody Opera House were spectacular. The range of sessions and speakers wa[...]

I had some trouble where a simple parser would take a bit of time. Turns out that there were many ways of improving this performance. I rewrote it to use the xml reader instead to be able to do these improvements. Some funky bugs got squished. The reader [...]

I had some trouble where a simple parser would take a bit of time. Turns out that there were many ways of improving this performance. I rewrote it to use the xml reader instead to be able to do these improvements. Some funky bugs got squished. The reader [...]

In this blog post, I show off a number of F# integration features in Visual Studio 2012, by walking through an end-to-end scenario of authoring and testing an F# library.   The code itself is not the focus; rather, I’ll focus on the IDE tooling as we walk[...]

This is a list of my takeaways from the excellent talk between Erik Meijer (of the LINQ and Rx fame), Carl Hewitt (creator of the Actor model) and Clemens Szyperski, on the Actor model.   Disclaimer : this conversation revolves around the conceptual model[...]

Imagine the user experience of a gaming console. It’s very focused on a selected few tasks: starting games, playing movies… An ipad is conceptually a similar device. You can surf, run certain applications, watch movies, listen to music. The user interface[...]