Another history email, discovered while poking around for some old image files. There are some other entries in this series here. In any case, In 2004 I sent around a note to our research lab about our coding work on .NET generics. It began: I am enormous[...]

Another minor update, addressing JDBC-34 by adding a new :connection-uri option so you can specify a raw JDBC URL which is passed directly to the DriverManager class, and fixing a quoting bug when converting Clojure keywords to SQL entities (for example :[...]

Recently, I needed a function to generate color values to reflect the relative intensity of numeric values in a range. Visualizations based on this idea are commonly called “Heatmaps”. My requriement was to show the strength/weight of an edge between two [...]

Recently, I needed a function to generate color values to reflect the relative intensity of numeric values in a range. Visualizations based on this idea are commonly called “Heatmaps”. My requriement was to show the strength/weight of an edge between two [...]

Taking the Coursera Probabilistic Graphical Models course has had me thinking a lot about complexity. Lately, program state complexity in the context of testing in particular. How many discrete tests would it take to ensure every combination of inputs is [...]

There is a very nice online book called "The F# Survival Guide", previously hosted at ctocorner.com. Unfortunately, for some reason that site is no longer available. Several F# community members have tried to work out why, but so far to no avail. In any c[...]

First of all, kudos to Michael Neel and everyone that put on CodeStock.  This was my first time attending CodeStock and to see such a well-run conference is always a pleasure. I know from experience that there’s a lot of work that goes in to making things[...]

Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I post some historical notes related to the research projects I've been involved in at Microsoft Research. Recently, I was asked some historical questions about our work on .NET Generics in 2001.[...]

The next F# User Group meeting on Boston will be tonight, Monday June 18, 2012 at MS NERD.Register here. Featured Speaker: Mathias Brandewinder Topic: Bumblebee in F# Description: In this talk, Mathias will discuss Bumblebee, an open source CodePlex pro[...]