Did you know that it is the 50th anniversary of the BASIC programming language today? (1st May) No? Well why not!  BASIC is the language that brought computers to the mainstream.  Back in the day, if you had a computer, you learnt how to program it in bas[...]

Hello! Just to quick shout to say that the slides for my Neo4j talk tonight on modelling and balancing an in-game economy using Neo4j is now available on Slideshare: Modelling Game Economy with Neo4j from Yan Cui   You can also watch the recording of the [...]

Agile software development, the best process the industry has come up with so far, how could it fail? Easy. Any …Continue reading →

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Visual F# PowerTools v1.0.0 is released with Find All References, various improvements and bug fixes. F* (a dependently-typed variant of F# for program verification) is re-released un[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Visual F# PowerTools v1.0.0 is released with Find All References, various improvements and bug fixes. F* (a dependently-typed variant of F# for program verification) is re-released un[...]

Lately, I have been trying to learn more about Data Science and Machine Learning. Following a coursera’s machine learning class and reading some books like, Data Science for Business and Mining the Social Web is very useful. However, you may want to get y[...]

When you want to set a date literal in F# (or C#) you create a new DateTime instance: let today = DateTime(2014,26,4) If you’re rocking VB.Net you get date literals which are checked at design & compile time: Dim d = #2014/04/26# I thought it’d b[...]

Recently Scott Wlaschin blogged an excellent post “Twenty six low-risk ways to use F# at work” with guides and samples of how to improve your productivity at work with some of F# tips. But how to train your F# skills? Yes, the best answer is to read excel[...]

Recently Scott Wlaschin blogged an excellent post “Twenty six low-risk ways to use F# at work” with guides and samples of how to improve your productivity at work with some of F# tips. But how to train your F# skills? Yes, the best answer is to read excel[...]

Starting with our experiments with integrating General Purpose GPU programming into F# at Microsoft Research, I've been watching the evolution of F# as a GPGPU programming platform. Over time, GPGPU programming with F# has become both more professionalize[...]