If trials of three or four simple cases have been made, and are found to agree with the results given by the engine, it is scarcely possible that there can be any error (...). Charles Babbage, On the mathematical powers of the calculating engine (1837) Anybody who has something to do with modern computers will agree that the above statement made by Charles Babbage about the analytical engine is understatement, to say the least. Computer programs do not always work as expected. There is a complex taxonom[...]

Ive finally been awarded a Microsoft MVP its been quite a long time coming. Ive been nominated for MVP every year since July 2011 but until now I have been unsuccessful. On the 1st of July I received an email congratulating me that I had been successful on my MVP nomination. I am now officially a Microsoft Most Valued Professional!

Sit down, strap in, and prepare for take off, we’re going Meta-Matic! We’re going to be exploring some metaprogramming magic in F#. Transforming its abstract syntax tree (AST) into another languages AST before executing it in another virtual machine, Exciting!!

Quite some time ago, I took over maintenance of the Chocolatey NuGet (CNG) packages for both Elixir and Erlang.  I did release new versions of both packages as new versions of Erlang and Elixir became available but I didn’t do a lot of work on either of them.  That changed a little bit today. One thing that […]

In case you missed my recent official FsLab announcement, FsLab is a data-science package for .NET built around F# that makes it easy to get data using type providers, analyze them interactively (with great R integration) and visualize the results. You can find more on on fslab.org, which also has links to some videos and download page with templates and other instructions. Last time, I mentioned that we are working on integrating FsLab with the XPlot charting library. XPlot is a wonderful F# library b[...]