In the early days programming was considered a subdiscipline of mathematics. In fact, the very first person to write an algorithm was renowned as a mathematical genius. However, somewhere along the way we forgot. We began to think of ourselves as something different, a profession not beholden to rigor or deep understanding of the models we create. It’s easy [...]

A couple of months ago, I posted a list of my F# talks and courses for Autumn 2011. Although I tried hard to have fewer speaking engagements during the winter and spring, there are quite a few events that

In C#, you can use the object/collection initialization syntax like this: The F# equivalent of object initialization is done like this: As for collection initialization, you have a far more diverse range of tools available to you, for example: You can also create slices of an existing array: You can even add your own multi-dimensional [...]

Well I finally did it, I moved my blog from Wordpress to Octopress, what drove me to make this move? Well, there were a few factors involved… I found the following problems and frustrations with Wordpress: Changing a Wordpress theme is somewhat of a black art. My blog didn’t look its best on mobile devices, there was no fluid layout. Wordpress seems to introduce a fair bit of latency for somethings thats essentially a simple task i.e. get some text from a database. Reliance on a database. All my post w[...]