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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[...]

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

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This article tells of a report where they suspect agile of being developer-centric scam in order for developers to avoid unwanted tasks: In spite of the specialization of resources which limits the scope of the work of developers, the Agile movement migh[...]