Problem Comparing two numbers written in index form like 211 and 37 is not difficult, as any calculator would confirm that 211 = 2048 < 37 = 2187. However, confirming that 632382518061 > 519432525806 would be much more difficult, as both numbers contain over three million digits. Using base_exp.txt (right click and ‘Save Link/Target As…’), [...]

After a few philosophical blog posts, I decided it was time for something a bit more concrete. I’ve been playing around a bit with F# and some web stuff recently using both RavenDB and PicoMvc so I thought I’d share with you how to create an autocomplete drop down using these technologies. Creating an autocomplete in a HTML form is fairly common these days and there’s a nice jQuery plugin that takes care of the UI side of things. So the heavy lifting that remains, although it’s not really that heavy, is l[...]

Interested in presenting at a conference on functional programming? Want to reach out to a potentially huge audience? Don’t mind the feeling of speaking alone to a webcam? Then Functional.net is for you! Please check it out and submit a talk. This is all going down on February 17, 2012 (tentative), and we’d love to [...]

I used to find projects with a few large files (1000+ loc) distasteful. Of late, I’m starting to find large numbers of nested folders and files distasteful. Is it just a case of “the grass is always greener?” I don’t think so. I use the VsVim plugin for Visual Studio at work and at home. [...]