Tis’ still the Season for yearly retrospectives, and making foolish predictions or commitments; here is a very incomplete and disorganized review of my year 2013 with F#, and some of my take-aways for the year ahead. 2013 has been a CRAZY year for me. I used to be proud of myself when I gave one talk per quarter – this is the map of places where I gave F# presentations / Dojos this year (note that I spoke multiple times in some of these places, and some online talks are not listed…): So yes, it’s been a[...]

So I’ve been giving a little more time and attention to both Scala and Vagrant.  Vagrant is a nice way to manage development environments via the use of VM’s and Scala, of course, is a great hybrid of OO and FP.  One of the things I’ve done is to start working on a provisioning script […]

I stumbled across this little gem the other day – websocketd – which turns anything that takes standard-in and standard-out into a websocket server! To build a dead simple echo server, follow these steps: follow the download instructions here (don’t forget to add it to your PATH) create a new console application in Visual Studio [...]

Hi everyone, happy new year! I was really glad to find a couple of days to work on some of my open source projects and put together a new version of DynamoDB.SQL which brings it inline with the latest version of the .Net AWSSDK amongst other things. You can download and install it from Nuget [...]

Would you like to work as a postdoc or a researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge? Whetehr in the F# team, the Programming Principles and Tools group more generally, or as agent-at-large across all of Microsoft Research?  We’re starting to collect formal applications, and to schedule interviews for researcher and postdoc positions at Microsoft Research, in Cambridge. The applications are assessed by the Programming Principles and Tools group and senior management at MSR Cambridge. I am personally intere[...]