We are happy to announce CloudSharper Local alpha 0.9.8, encapsulating the latest enhancements to the F# compiler service and delivering several bug fixes to CloudSharper's msbuild support.

We are happy to announce the latest release of CloudSharper, version 0.9.7, bringing a new type checking and code assistance engine for F# projects. This last week we have been working hard on moving CloudSharper to FCS (FSharp.Compiler.Service), and with this current release much of the migration work is completed. As a result, the type checker in F# projects is considerably faster, and code assistance features are available in more locations that in previous CloudSharper releases.

During some recent meanderings through the confines of the internet, I ended up discovering the Winnow Algorithm. The simplicity of the approach intrigued me, so I thought it would be interesting to try and implement it in F# and see how well it worked. The purpose of the algorithm is to train a binary classifier, based on binary features. In other words, the goal is to predict one of two states, using a collection of features which are all binary. The prediction model assigns weights to each feature; to [...]

One of the more exciting new functional languages of the last couple of years is a marriage of Erlang and Ruby called Elixir.  Besides adding an arguably better syntax with which to program the Erlang VM (also known as the BEAM VM), Elixir adds meta-programming, addresses issues Erlang had with dealing with Unicode strings, and […]

Why does the dog wag its tail? Because the dog is smarter than the tail. If the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog. The phrase wag the dog refers to times when something of a secondary importance improperly takes on the role of something of primary importance. As I watched the recording of [...]