Follow the controversy here: http://www.simontylercousins.net/journal/2013/2/22/does-the-language-you-choose-make-a-difference.html… and via @simontcousins on twitter ...the one stat in the summary that I find most compelling is the defect rate. I have now delivered three business critical projects written in F#. I am still waiting for the first bug to come in. This is not the case with the C# projects I have delivered. I will continue to monitor and report on this. It might be that I am just on a lucky st[...]

And the Journey converting “Machine Learning in Action” from Python to F# continues! Rather than following the order of the book, I decided to skip chapters 8 and 9, dedicated to regression methods (regression is something I spent a bit too much time doing in the past to be excited about it just right now), and go straight to Unsupervised Learning, which begins with the K-means clustering algorithm. So what is clustering about? In a nutshell, clustering focuses on the following question: given a set of obs[...]

The 2013 edition of Functional Programming eXchange is just over a month away, so if you’re not already signed up now the time to do so. When we first started Functional Programming eXchange back in 2009 there were very few functional programming conference’s aimed at developers, over years this has changed quite dramatically and now even if we just talk about about functional programming events in the UK hosted at Skills Matter we have Clojure eXchange, Haskell eXchange, Progressive F#, Scala Days and Sca[...]

I recently ran into a problem with accessing a WCF web service over https. I used the WSDL Type Provider to generate the service client for me. I referenced System and System.ServiceModel like a good boy, yet I couldn’t find any way to set the credentials for the service. I began by trying to use […]