Way back in 2005 Nguyen Van Thien and Dinh Thi Thuy Nga, two computer science students from Vietnam, got in contact asking me to help them share the “Chinese Chess” computer game they’d written in F#. The game plays well and has nice graphics and sounds, quite an achievement given that F# was still in its infancy back in those days. Naturally I want to help them so I gave it a place on my website. Recently I had a couple of emails saying the link was broken (which I never got round to replying too, sorry [...]

I’ve been neglecting strangelights.com a bit lately, mainly due to lack of time. So, today I finally got round to fixing a few things that had been bugging me and clean away some of the old and out of data material, especially in the F# resources section. I’ve also upgraded to the latest version of subtext as a few people have reports some minor bugs with the comments system to me, so hopefully this will fix them. To celebrate this revamp I’m giving away chapter 3 of my book “Beginning F#”. This is the ch[...]