Tomas Petricek posted an article recently about how he used F# to solve a puzzle he had been given for Christmas.  This reminded me of several similar mini-projects I have developed in the past, the most recent being a program to help solve a specific sor[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News The F# compiler team created an up-for-grabs label and it’s already added. SpiegelSoft presented Vulpes (an implementation of deep belief and deep learning, written in F# and using Al[...]

A lightweight post this week. One of my favorite F# type providers is the World Bank type provider, which enables ridiculously easy access to a boatload of socio-economic data for every country in the world. However, numbers are cold – wouldn’t it be nice[...]

As someone doing programming language research, I find it really interesting to think about how programming language research is done, how it has been done in the past and how it should be done. This kind of questions are usually asked by philosophy of sc[...]

WebSharper development gains support for Mono framework on Linux and Mac OS X, and integration with Xamarin Studio and MonoDevelop. The preview add-in is available for testing at intellifactory/monodevelop.websharper

Big news. Microsoft releases the next C# and vb.net compiler as open source. Miquel de Icaza speaks of making it work on mono as well. It’s licensed under Apache license.

Big news. Microsoft releases the next c# and vb.net compiler as open source. Miquel de Icaza speaks of making it work on mono as well. It’s licensed under Apache license.

This post is the answer to yesterday's brainteaser. As a reminder, I was asking what purpose this code might have: public static class Extensions  {      public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)      {          source.Add(item);     [...]

This post is the answer to yesterday’s brainteaser. As a reminder, I was asking what purpose this code might have: public static class Extensions  {      public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)      {          source.Add(item);      [...]