There are some pitfalls. One for instance is that it starts the editor wrong when running msysgit in the cygwin shell. Naturally I tried specifying different paths and ended up with the following configuration of gitconfig:c:\cygwin\home\wallymathieu.gitc[...]

There are some pitfalls. One for instance is that it starts the editor wrong when running msysgit in the cygwin shell. Naturally I tried specifying different paths and ended up with the following configuration of gitconfig: c:\\cygwin\\home\\wallymathieu[...]

I’ve updated the dotnet-console to enable help. It’s not finished, but it’s looking better. Still needs a lot of refactoring though. The tests document the more stable fluent interface. The stuff behind the fluent interface is more prone to change. It’s a[...]

I’ve updated the dotnet-console to enable help. It’s not finished, but it’s looking better. Still needs a lot of refactoring though. The tests document the more stable fluent interface. The stuff behind the fluent interface is more prone to change. It’s a[...]

Twitter now provides a streaming API which can be used to obtain a continuous stream of tweets on any set of topics, locations, etc., in real time. Read the full API details here. It would be nice to convert this … Continue reading →

Today's the day to say it loud and clear: I'm an Apple II kid.... I grew up in Toowoomba, Australia, and had the good fortune to go to a (then somewhat radical) primary school which had an Apple II+ for use in Year 6 and 7. I guess it was 1979-1982. My br[...]

Here are some details on an F# contract position at MSR Cambridge. Contract Position for Biological Modelling Language Development (F#) Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK - 4th October 2011 Microsoft Research Cambridge has available a 2-year contract posit[...]

My colleagues at MSR Cambridge in the research games team have released a Facebook app called “Project Waterloo” (http://apps.facebook.com/msrwaterloo).  The app allows users to play the two-player turn-based game called Blotto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wi[...]

Phil Trelford has a nice set of slides from a recent talk in Belfast called F# Eye for the C# Guy. F# Eye 4 the C# Guy