Over the last few years, I created or contributed to a number of libraries including F# Data for data access, Deedle for exploratory data science with C# and F#, Markdown parser and code-formatter F# Formatting and other fun libraries such as one for composing 3D objects used in my Christmas blog post. Building libraries is a fun and challenging task - even if we ignore all the additional things that you need to get right such as testing, documentation and building (see my earlier blog post) and focus[...]

Over the last few years, I created or contributed to a number of libraries including F# Data for data access, Deedle for exploratory data science with C# and F#, Markdown parser and code-formatter F# Formatting and other fun libraries such as one for composing 3D objects used in my Christmas blog post. Building libraries is a fun and challenging task - even if we ignore all the additional things that you need to get right such as testing, documentation and building (see my earlier blog post) and focus jus[...]

There is a bunch of visualization and charting libraries for F#. Sadly, perhaps the most advanced one, F# Charting, does not work particularly well outside of Windows at the moment. There are also some work-in-progress libraries based on HTML like Foogle Charts and FsPlot, which are cross-platform, but not quite ready yet. Before Christmas, I got a notification from GitHub about a pull request for a simple gnuplot wrapper that I wrote a long time ago (and which used to be carfully hidden on CodePlex). [...]

I had the great pleasure to speak at CodeMash this week, and, on my way back, ended up spending a couple of hours at the Atlanta airport waiting for my connecting flight back to the warmer climate of San Francisco – a perfect opportunity for some light-hearted coding fun. A couple of days earlier, I came across this really nice tweet, rendering the results of an L-system: {start:'FFPF',rules:{F:'PF++F[FF-F+PF+FPP][F]FFPF',P:''},'α':60} pic.twitter.com/JZGDV4ghFy— LSystemBot (@LSystemBot) January 10, 2015 [...]

Microsoft Research is looking for development engineers in Cambridge, UK!  Applications now open! Microsoft Research has been working in Cambridge for 17 years to advance the state of the art in Computer Science and to feed the best of technology into Microsoft’s products.  Today around 200 staff work at our centrally positioned lab, in the heart of Cambridge’s new CB1 business district by the railway station. We work on innovative, cool technologies that you’ve heard of, such as Microsoft Kinect, F#, .NET[...]