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Building an F# powered indexing system (part 2)

Wed, 14 May 2008 02:01:02 GMT

The second development chunk focuses on creating documents to index, and munging them into a format to hand off to an external library. There are examples of calling a .NET library from F#, mutable values, function composition, and several other spiffy sounding things.

Building an F# powered indexing system

Thu, 08 May 2008 08:46:02 GMT

When I first started dabbling in F#, I really struggled to understand how someone (in particular, me) would sit down and start writing an application from scratch. Project Euler puzzles are a great way to learn syntax (and probably the best place to start), but I would have loved to see a real application's source with a sort of "here's how it was built" narrative. So that's what I'm going to do!

Introduction to the FSharp programming language

Wed, 07 May 2008 04:06:01 GMT

A brief introduction to the F# programming language that will be the next one to integrate Microsoft Visual Studio. From the point of view of a C# programmer there's a lot you must learn to master the new concepts related to this powerful functional programming language. See where to download the F# compiler bits and start programming today.

Yet Another Project Euler Series (YAPES)

Tue, 06 May 2008 18:31:02 GMT

For the past several months, I've been using F# to solve at least two Project Euler problems each week. I find this is a great way to sharpen my math skills and my F# skills simultaneously. If you're looking for a way to flex your programming muscles, you really should check out Project Euler.

F# vs. C#: refactoring in parallel and generics

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:57:00 GMT

In an attempt to avoid out parameters (which suck) in C#, I refactored a bit of contrived code to bury them elsewhere. I also worked on the equivalent F# code, and found more things about C# that may or may not suck.

Adventures in F# Part 8

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:34:39 GMT

Part 8 of a pretty good series for learning F# by Matthew Podwysocki.

MVC: Membership Starter Kit Updated

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

The MVC Membership Starter Kit has been updated to include OpenID, MVC components, password recovery, and basic client-side validation.

Gravatar, please bring back PNG files!

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Gravatar recently made some big changes when migrating their web application. While most of these changes are a real benefit, there is one big feature that has been removed -- PNG files are no longer supported!

Out parameters suck, tuples rule, F# wins

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:46:02 GMT

The TryParse method found on many value types is nice and useful. Unfortunately, you're forced to use out parameters to make use of them. Ugh.

Why I Love F#: Lists - The Basics

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:16:02 GMT

A wonderful explanation of lists in F#, how they operate, and how to use them.

F# for Numerics beta release

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:42:10 GMT

Flying Frog have just announced the launch of their F# for numerics library (beta release).

Why I Love F#: Result Tuples

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

great and direct presentation on how to call C# Code from F#

F# Resources

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:43:57 GMT

Listing of online resources for learning Microsoft's F# language.

I'm Really Digging F#

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:46:04 GMT

An article that shows the elegance, power and brevity of Microsoft's F# language.

Creating FxCop rules with F#

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:46:01 GMT

In this post I'm going to show a little example of a FxCop rule created with F#.

Introduction to F#

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:01:01 GMT

Cool little on-line tutorial. More information and demos in the F# journal articles to which I now subscribe.