Way back in 2005 Nguyen Van Thien and Dinh Thi Thuy Nga, two computer science students from Vietnam, got in contact asking me to help them share the “Chinese Chess” computer game they’d written in F#. The game plays well and has nice graphics and sounds, [...]

I’ve been neglecting strangelights.com a bit lately, mainly due to lack of time. So, today I finally got round to fixing a few things that had been bugging me and clean away some of the old and out of data material, especially in the F# resources section.[...]

The F# team is very excited to pass on the news that Tomas Petricek's Real-World F# Programming Articles are now available on MSDN! Congratulations to Tomas, Keith, Yin and Gordon who have worked so hard on this. Here's the chapter outline: Chapter I: I[...]

Asynchronous sequences provide a way to represent asynchronous computation that generates multiple values on demand. This article defines asynchronous sequences, combinators for working with them and "asyncSeq" computation builder. Then it implements seve[...]

More than a year ago, I started working on a writing project done with Manning and MSDN team. The idea was to adapt parts of my Real-World Functional Programming book, add some new practical topics and publish the articles on MSDN under the official F# do[...]

There is lately quite a lot of fuss over C# 5.0, caused by the new async features. The C# async feature is based on (or was inspired by) the F#’s Async computation expression, which I will now discuss a bit (and then present my improvement). Usually, asyn[...]

Even tho' it's far from a 1.0 release, I've updated the cfmljure project on github to contain the latest version that we're using at World Singles and update the examples so they work again, along with updated instructions - mainly that the Clojure code n[...]

The WebSharper Extensions for Bing Maps has been updated to reflect the last changes in the 7.0 API. Among notable additions are Directions, a simplified interface to the Routes REST API, Traffic and VenueMaps, as well as the possibility to implement your[...]

November is going to be a very busy month for me as I’m very happy to announce I’ll be speaking at Stack Overflow Dev Days at London’s ExCeL conference center on the 14th-15th November and the Progressive F# Tutorials at the Skills Matter eXchange on 3rd-[...]