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 [...]

I came across this SO question the other day, and I really liked Daniel’s answer as it illustrates the beauty and elegance of F# and functional programming in general! Personally I love the combinators approach, and for anyone else who’s interested to see what else you can do with combinators, check out the beautifully crafted [...]

I was having a conversation with a fellow developer the other day and we we chatting about the lack of foresight of many firms regarding functional programming.  This naturally led to a discussion of how chaotic many workplaces are. This, of course, led to the old saw—if you don’t like where you’re working, look elsewhere.  [...]

After watching Gael’s recent SkillsMatter talk on multithreading I’ve put together some notes from a very educational talk:   Hardware Cache Hierarchy Four levels of cache L1 (per core) – typically used for instructions L2 (per core) L3 (per die) DRAM (all processors) Data can be cached in multiple caches, and synchronization happens through an [...]