Category: Events
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My 2013 F# Year in Review
It’s been a great year for F# with the blossoming of the fsharp.org working groups. It’s been amazing watching the community come together to form a movement outside of Microsoft. This is most certainly the long term future of F#, protected from the whims of layer upon layer of management. Who knows, in the coming year we…
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Come join me at the SkillsMatter F# Tutorials NYC 2013
Last year was our first NYC F# tutorials and they were just amazing (you can read about them here) but this year’s are going to be even better. We’ve got a lineup including some of the most talented teachers in the F# community, and the tickets are extremely inexpensive as conferences and training events go.…
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In Retrospect: QCon NYC 2013 (and a conversation with Rich Hickey on languages)
QCon NYC was the most refreshing conference I’ve been to in a very long time. Perhaps it’s partially because I’ve lingered too long in Microsoft circles, or maybe it’s just been too long since I went to a large conference. In any case, the speaker lineup was just chock full of brilliant minds from all over…
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NYC Progressive F# Tutorials 2012 in Retrospect
It was the best of times, it was the… Actually, it was all just fantastic. On the beginner track Chris Marinos, Phil Trelford, and Tomas Petricek worked tirelessly in teaching F#. I was thoroughly impressed with the quality of their tutorials and would recommend seeking any of them out if you wish to become more proficient…
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F# and the DLR at Dev Day for NSWC Dahlgren
Just yesterday I gave a presentation on F# and the DLR for the Naval Surface Warfare Center. Many thanks to Kevin Hazzard and Chris Bowen for recommending me. It was a fantastic opportunity to speak on the benefits of F# to an entirely new audience and I learned a few things about the DLR along the way. Despite disliking…
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Some Recent Talks (with slides and code)
I’ve given quite a few talks over the last couple of months and at each and every one I promised to post my content shortly afterwards here on my blog. However, due to some extreme laziness early on coupled with a crazy schedule and some unfortunate (but thankfully temporary) health problems more recently, I’ve failed to…
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The Road to Functional Programming in F# – From Imperative to Computation Expressions
In F# there are a lot of options when it comes to choosing the style in which you will perform a computation. So, for our last meeting of the the NYC F# User Group I decided to try and build a general understanding of how the different styles are related to each other through trying…
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F# Code and Slides to Share
As I mentioned in my most recent edition of F# Discoveries This Week, it’s Code Camp season and it would be great to see more F# users out there sharing the love. To help out, I’ve provided the slides from my previous talks in one place under the Creative Commons Attribution license. I even left all of my…
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An F# Ant Colony Simulation in Silverlight 4.0 with Dynamic AI Loading
I’ve been enviously watching Phillip Trelford publish excellent F# games all week and tonight I just couldn’t stand it anymore. I stayed in, rolled up my sleeves and ported the very same ant colony simulation I used in my CUFP workshop to Silverlight 4.0. <Silverlight Demo was Here, but unfortunately no longer works> Wow, just look at those little…
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In Retrospect: The F# in Education Workshop
I was taking the elevator down after getting settled in my hotel room and as the doors opened I was awestruck by the sight of Don Syme sitting on a couch, typing away on his laptop. With a bit of trepidation I walked up to him and introduced myself. It was immediately obvious that he…