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… First up is the Server+Cloud section, this section contains the only F# presentation which is disappointing. Server+[...]

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[...]

I actually have the last two episodes of my RavenDB series ready to go, but doesn’t seem much point publishing them this week, so here’s a few thoughts on stuff from build and Windows 8 instead. Firstly Windows 8: I thought the build keynotes did a nice [...]

Initially, one of the biggest problems I found when trying to marry records was the god awful quality of much of data I often have to work with. It’s mostly old mainframe and database data with truncated fields, limited character sets and fields with nons[...]