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For whom the proteins fold
I know this post isn’t of my usual technical type, but I hope you’ll bear with me while I share an idea I’ve been thinking about. Starting way back with SETI@Home, scientists have been borrowing our computer time in exchange for awesomely nerdy screen savers for years. However, it’s only fairly recently have they discovered the…
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In Retrospect: TechEd 2010 North America
This year I was invited by Microsoft to attend TechEd 2010 North America in New Orleans. Largely, I was to be found at the Visual Studio languages booth answering questions about F#. It was exhilarating to hear so many developers come up and talk about how they were planning to use F# to tackle what…
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In Retrospect: A .NET Rocks! F# Panel
Just this past May I appeared on the .NET Rocks! radio show in a panel with Talbott Crowell and Richard Hale Shaw. The show started with a short intro in which each of us discussed something we though was great about F#. This was followed by an in-depth Q&A session with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell. Overall,…
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Code Bubbles and the Keyboard
I was catching up on reading one of my favorite blogs today, Lambda the Ultimate, and was not disappointed in the least. At the top of the list sat Code Bubbles, a whole new take on the IDE. Code Bubbles shocked me because it’s visually manifest much of what I had in mind when I wrote almost two years…