At last, Microsoft have released its long awaited Cloud Numerics library!!! A huge congratulations to the Cloud Numerics team (follow their blog!), and I encourage everyone in the F# community to be looking at the use of these wonderful technologies tog[...]

Thank you all for your comments on my previous post, I appreciate the time you all took in sharing your perspectives very much.  Many of you have brought up great analogies to demonstrate how you feel and in reading these responses I realized I must not h[...]

The recently announced Cloud Numerics library is a great fit for F# analytical computing. The Cloud Numerics team recently posted some examples of how to use this library in F#, and learn how to do distributed numerics on Azure with F#! As always, we welc[...]

Today's post involves the MagicOrdering project in source control (project 28). When I wrote part 16 of Eduasync, showing composition in the form of majority voting, one reader mailed me a really interesting suggestion. We don't really need to wait for a[...]

I’m pleased to announce Campfire Mono’s 3rd talk by Andrew Jones (gplus.to/ascjones), about developing applications with F# and F# on Mono: What: Developing applications with F# and F# on Mono. Who: Andrew Jones. Where: Microsoft Cape Town Offices, Golf P[...]

Jenkins is an extendable open source continuous integration server. In this blog post I show you how you can build FAKE’s Calculator sample with Jenkins. If you are familiar with Jenkins or Hudson then this should be straight forward. Install Jenkins Go t[...]

C# By default, arithmetic operations and conversions in C# execute in an unchecked context, you can use the checked keyword to switch a block of code to the checked context so that any arithmetic overflow that occurs in that block of code will cause the O[...]

As previously mentioned, at CodeMash 2012 I gave a very silly Pecha Kucha talk entitled "Coding in the style of Glee". The video is on YouTube, or can be seen embedded below: (There's also another YouTube video from a different angle.) This post gives [...]

I'm nearly home - on a bus back from Heathrow airport to Reading - returning from CodeMash 2012. This was my first US conference, and I had a wonderful time. It was pretty densely packed in terms of presenting / recording for me: I presented two back-[...]