I have heard a few people argue that when it comes to performance critical code you should prefer arrays over other collections (such as F#’s lists) as it benefits from sequential reads (which is faster than seeks) and offers better memory locality. To test that theory somewhat, I wanted to see if there is any [...]

I’m proud to announce that we have released another new slot – Wealthy Whale – to JackpotJoy Slots, it is also the first All Pays slots we have implemented on our F# slots engine! In an All Pays slot, there are no ‘pay lines’, instead, any matching symbol (or Wild symbol) that appears on adjacent [...]

The annual CUFP workshop is a place where people can see how others are using functional programming to solve real world problems; where practitioners meet and collaborate; where language designers and users can share ideas about the future of their favorite language; and where one can learn practical techniques and approaches for putting functional programming to work.

I gave a talk about Aspect Oriented Programming at this year’s DDD South West, the slides is available on SlideShare: Introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming (DDD South West 4.0) View more PowerPoint from Yan Cui The source code I used can be found here.   A big thank you to the guys for making DDD [...]