Sounds interesting to hear about the new WinRT api:s for windows. Reading up on it WinRT are COM objects in contrast to the Win32 architecture. One of the exciting things about this is the promise of being able to use xaml in c++. An overview of WinRT by[...]

I have an idea for a type provider, so now that the type provider bits are finally publicly available I set to work building it. However it turns out just implementing a type provider is pretty tricky (not really that much of a surprise I supose), so I th[...]

EDIT, 17th October 2011: Last week Kobalt closed down... so the choice about whether or not I'd buy from them again is now moot. However, PC Specialist sells a very similar spec, now including the matte screen... As some of you will know, our house was b[...]

A few months ago I decided that it’s time to learn a new programming language that’s completely outside my normal frame of reference. After watching a video on InfoQ about the future of programming languages, I decided Clojure would make an interesting ch[...]

Back in 2004 when we founded IntelliFactory to do commercial F# development, there were just a few dozen people who have heard about F# worldwide. When pitching to various companies or talking informally about what we do I usually met with total utter dis[...]

The Visual Studio F# team is excited to announce a preview release of F# 3.0 as part of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, announced on Tuesday at the //build/ conference. This preview is available now for all MSDN subscribers. The general release wi[...]

Well, I didn’t think I would be doing this but heres some of the sessions Im looking forward to watching from this years Build conference. Server / Cloud Obviously first up is the F# 3.0 session by Don Syme, really looking forward to this session! F# 3[...]

Well, I didn’t think I would be doing this but heres some of the sessions Im looking forward to watching from this years Build conference… First up is the Server+Cloud section, this section contains the only F# presentation which is disappointing. Server+[...]