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Power of mathematics: Reasoning about functional types 14 May 2013 | 10:54 pm
One of the most amazing aspects of mathematics is that it applies to such a wide range of areas. The same mathematical rules can be applied to completely different objects (say, forces in physics or m...
Async in C# and F#: Asynchronous gotchas in C# 15 Apr 2013 | 09:00 am
Back in February, I attended the annual MVP summit - an event organized by Microsoft for MVPs. I used that opportunity to also visit Boston and New York and do two F# talks and to record a Channel9 le...
F# Data: New type provider library 28 Mar 2013 | 07:23 am
When F# 3.0 type providers were still in beta version, I wrote a couple of type providers as examples for talks. These included the WorldBank type provider (now available on Try F#) and also type prov...
Upcoming F# talks and trainings (London, NYC & Boston) 8 Feb 2013 | 04:00 am
After a few years, I finally managed to find the time to attend the MVP Summit this year. The Summit is an annual event where people who are active in Microsoft technical communities come to the Micro...
Announcing: Literate programming tools for F# 22 Jan 2013 | 10:35 pm
For some time now, I've been writing my F# blog posts (and other F# articles published elsewhere) by combining F# code snippets and Markdown formatting. In fact, I even wrote a Markdown parser in F# s...
Processing trees with F# zipper computation 19 Dec 2012 | 07:22 pm
One of the less frequently advertised new features in F# 3.0 is the query syntax. It is an extension that makes it possible to add custom operations in an F# computation expression. The standard query...
Manning: F# Deep Dives deal of the day 18 Dec 2012 | 10:19 pm
The F# language has been around for longer than many people suspect. My first, completely outdated, blog post was from May 2006. The Microsoft Research releases, sometime around 2006 were the first st...
Learn F# at TechMesh and SkillsMetter 21 Oct 2012 | 09:53 pm
Autumn is a busy period and I already invited you to a couple of interesting events, but there are two more events that you definitely should not miss. In only two weeks, you can come to two-day Progr...
Applicative functors: definition and syntax 21 Aug 2012 | 07:23 pm
In a recent blog post, Edward Z. Yang talks about applicative functors. He mentions two equivalent definitions of applicative functors - the standard definition used in Haskell libraries (Applicative)...
