Razor is a programming syntax for dynamic ASP.Net web pages released in 2011. Here’s a C# syntax example from W3 Schools: <!-- Single statement block --> @{ var myMessage = "Hello World"; } <!-- Inline expression or variable --> <p>The value of myMessage is: @myMessage</p> <!-- Multi-statement block --> @{ var greeting = "Welcome to our site!"; var weekDay = DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek; var greetingMessage = greeting + " Today is: " + weekDay; } <p>The greeting is: @greetingMessage</p> Here’s an exam[...]

This year I had the privilege of attending and speaking at the Strangeloop conference in St Louis. The venues, the Union Street Marriot (a National Historic Landmark), and the Peabody Opera House were spectacular. The range of sessions and speakers was literally mind boggling. Some of my favourites: Computing Like the Brain – Jeff Hawking How Plato and Aristotle invented modern programming – Matt Butcher Measuring political ideology in R – Drew Conway & Miles White Handling big data with [...]

This week I had a dig through the old Commodore VIC-20 cassette tapes I had languishing in the garage and stumbled upon a game I was working on, just for fun, when I was about 11 or 12. After playing it on a genuine 8-bit 3.5K VIC, I managed to read the tape into my laptop using Tapir, and then run it on the Vice emulator. It’s not quite up to Jeff Minter’s standards but here it is for posterity: It's a scrolling space game where you avoid the walls of a cavern and collect fuel, and features a bizarre [...]

As a C++11 programmer you’ve probably played with type inference and lambda functions and may now feel curious about trying a functional first programming language like F#. F# is a first class .Net programming language that ships with Visual Studio. Although C# shares the familiar moustache based syntax of C++, you may like me actually find F# more familiar in terms of power features like immutability, function inlining and even sprintf . Comparing some of the good parts of C++11 with C# and F#: [...]

I’ve heard a few times that I have a great face for radio ;). Here’s 3 recordings from this year where I get my radio head on and talk about F#. Why F#? with Richard Minerich and Phillip Trelford Interview with Scott Hanselman (March 2012)   Phil Trelford on Functional Architectures, F# Interview with Werner Schuster (May 2012)   Phil Trelford Codes in F# 3.0 Interview with Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell (August 2012)   My next gig is Strangeloop later this month, hope to see you there: F#[...]