We dont event know how old instruments are  The earliest type of instrument is thought to be flutes. According to wikipedia this technology could be as old as 43,400 and 67,000 years. Simple devices for making rhythm where probably made: drums, rattles. [...]

I’m proud to announce that we have released another new slot – Wealthy Whale – to JackpotJoy Slots, it is also the first All Pays slots we have implemented on our F# slots engine! In an All Pays slot, there are no ‘pay lines’, instead, any matching symbol[...]

The annual CUFP workshop is a place where people can see how others are using functional programming to solve real world problems; where practitioners meet and collaborate; where language designers and users can share ideas about the future of their favor[...]

In the last post I wrote about the PersistentVector which I ported from Clojure to .NET. It’s implemented as an immutable hash array mapped trie which optimizes the constant factors so that we can assume O(1) for count, nth, conj, assocN, peek and pop. Bu[...]

Rich Hickey created a very nice set of persistent collections for Clojure. I started to port them to FSharpx and today I want to present the PersistentVector. The basic idea is that we want to have something like an array but immutable. Vectors (IPersiste[...]

EuroClojure for me was also about community and diversity. The community aspect of EuroClojure was obvious from the start. It was a great selection of friendly and welcoming people, which has always been my experience in the clojure community. During … Co[...]

I gave a talk about Aspect Oriented Programming at this year’s DDD South West, the slides is available on SlideShare: Introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming (DDD South West 4.0) View more PowerPoint from Yan Cui The source code I used can be found he[...]

At the end of a very busy week was the highlight for me. EuroClojure 2012 was a chance to gather about 250 clojurians from Europe and further afield. There were keynotes from Stuart Halloway and Rich Hickey. Due to one … Continue reading →

This week I had the please of attending GOTO Copenhagen - a 3 day developer conference covering a diverse range of topics. Day 1 I started the day on the excellent Beyond the Microsoft Echo Chamber track taking in: Mark Seeman on Bending AutoFixture[...]