Many programmers and engineers I’ve met say when asked about philosophy: I don’t really care for it. It’s obsolete because of science. Could it be that it’s the engineering point of view? The view that some scientist (tool maker) cooks up the tools [...]

Back in January I built a sample Pacman maze script in F# to use at a Pacman Kata evening with the F#unctional Londoners group. Coincidentally there’s another Coding Kata this Thursday 26th July at Skills Matter. Anyway a couple of weeks ago I started pla[...]

Luke Hoban's OAuth implementation for Twitter works for LinkedIn as well. All you need to do is to switch the requestTokenURI/accessTokenURI/authorizeURI addresses from Twitter on LinkedIn. Example you can find here : http://sergeytihon.wordpress.com/2012[...]

Another week, another Thursday, another release and another new slot to add to our platoon of F#-backed slots game, Plants vs Zombies Summer Brains is now live on Lucky Gem Casino! Plants vs Zombies Summer Brainz As you can see from the sports stadium in [...]

Version 3.0 of the F#  language (which ships with Visual Studio 2012) has a number of new language features.  I expect that most people who follow F# are aware of the two big new language features: Type Providers and LINQ queries, which work together to h[...]

It’s funny how over time the meaning of a technical word will converge to something halfway between what the experts intended and some fuzzy notion consisting of the most easily graspable components of that idea. In this inevitable process an idea is stri[...]

There recently was an interesting SO question on F# Printf.* family of functions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11559440/how-to-manage-debug-printing-in-f It is known that these functions are very slow. Slow enough for most people to avoid them en[...]

You decide what happens in the developer community. You can vote with your feet by choosing which conferences and user group meetings you can turn up at. You can also vote with your mouse and decide which talks you’d like to hear all the way through to th[...]

Inspired by: The Fresh Prince of Bell Labs #codingsitcoms — Tim Pettersen (@kannonboy) July 16, 2012 In Petoskey, Michigan born and raised Tinkering with gadgets I spent most of my days Chillin out, maxin, relaxing with Boole, And working on my master’s o[...]

So is a process something like an algorithm or program but executed by people?