Due to popular demand… well, I had a couple of requests anyway :-) Heres a post inspired by my recent encounters profiling some of the code in Fracture-IO.

A little while ago I put together a quick performance test comparing the BCL’s BinaryFormatter with that of Marc Gravell’s protobuf-net library (.Net implementation of Google’s protocol buffer format). You can read more about my results here. There’s another fast binary serialization library which I had heard about before, MessagePack, which claims to be 4 [...]

An F# Meetup Group in Seattle has now been launched by Tao Liu on the F# team. (It's only just been created, so get in early!) If you're in the Seattle or King County area and are interested in F#, then please join, and help get the group off to a great start. A good meetup group absolutely depends on people participating by giving good presentations, and also on getting F# presenters who are coming through town to come by and give a talk. So start considering what talks you'd like to give, and what other [...]

  Microsoft Research are seeking candidates for a 6-month contract position in F# programming to help improve the capabilities of F# in the area of cross-platform and web-delivered data-rich programming. The candidate should have several of the following: Excellent F# programming skills Experience with ASP.NET, Web, Silverlight and/or Javascript programming Experience with implementing tooling for typed languages including type checking, compilation, code editing and interactive evaluation Knowledge of cl[...]