Well, last year’s F# tour was so much fun, I figured I would try to do it again, in Europe this time. I am becoming quite fond of F# tourism: after all, what better way to discover a place than going there and meeting locals who happen to have at least one common interest – and spread the F# love in the process? Anyways, if everything goes according to plan, I should be visiting F# communities in 7 different countries in 6 weeks :) As an aside, if you are running a meetup/user group that is somewhat on my[...]

If you have ever come across my blog before, it will probably come as no surprise if I tell you that I enjoy coding with F# tremendously. However, there is another reason why I enjoy F#, and that is the Community aspect. One thing we have been trying to do in San Francisco is to build a group that is inclusive, and focused on learning together. This is why we started the coding dojos a while back: one of our members mentioned that while he was convinced from talks that F# was a good language, presentatio[...]

I recently saw a tweet from Ryan Riley linking to an article exploring F# performance and floating point processing: This blog post highlighted some perf issues (minor) in #fsharp that surprised me. http://t.co/D2Q6ZtorhW Anyone able to explain? — Ryan Riley (@panesofglass) September 18, 2014 I poked around the code and tested it a bit myself, and … Continue reading Response to "Little Performance Explorations: F#" →

I recently saw a tweet from Ryan Riley linking to an article exploring F# performance and floating point processing: This blog post highlighted some perf issues (minor) in #fsharp that surprised me. http://t.co/D2Q6ZtorhW Anyone able to explain?— Ryan Riley (@panesofglass) September 18, 2014 I poked around the code and tested it a bit myself, and figured I would take up the author’s  call for feedback. Comments on the original blog are locked down, so I’ve written up my results here, instead. Initial[...]

Let’s face it, @fsibot in its initial release came with a couple flaws undocumented features. One aspect that was particularly annoying was the mild Tourette’s syndrom that affected the bot; on a fairly regular basis, it would pick up the same message, and send the same answer over and over again to the brave soul that tried to engage in a constructive discussion. I wasn’t too happy about that (nobody likes spam), and, being all about the enterprise and stuff, I thought it was time to inject a couple mor[...]