There’s just a week to go until the Progressive F# Tutorials returns to Skills Matter in London, on Nov 6-7, and it’s never too late to book. The tutorials are a 2 day / 2 track event community event made up of 3 hour long hands on sessions with industry experts, suitable for beginners and experts alike. The first day will start with a keynote from Don Syme, F# community contributor and a Principal Researcher at Micrsoft Research, on the F# way to reconciliation. On the beginners track we have: Scot[...]

Richard Paul Lohse was a Swiss born painter and graphic artist who typically produced pieces that had “interacting colour elements in various logical/mathematical relations visible to the eye” Out of curiosity I’ve taken a small number of Lohse’s work, generated them procedurally and added simple animations. Sechs Serigraphien Here I imagined the centre blocks bleeding out and filling the adjacent blocks a line at a time.   15 systematische Farbreihen mit 5 gleichen horizontalen Rythmen This pict[...]

The easiest place to see what’s going on in the F# community is to follow the #fsharp hash tag on Twitter. The last 24hrs have been as busy as ever, to the point where it can be hard to keep up these days. Here’s some of the highlights Events Build Stuff conference to feature 8 F# speakers: @c4fsharp + @silverSpoon & the @theburningmonk too :) — headintheclouds (@ptrelford) October 13, 2014 and workshops including: Machine learning and functional programing Build a Compiler in a Day F[...]

Back in November last year, my eldest son and I popped over to the Insomnia Gaming Festival in Telford to take part in a game jam organised by Global GameCraft. (Today I  bumped into the source again on a USB stick). The theme for the day was “The Last Assignment”. We decided to go with a text based adventure game loosely based on the Dirty Harry movie. With just 7 hours on the clock we managed to put together quite a fun adventure game with ambient sound and graphics: and picked up the prize for bes[...]

How hard is it to get started in functional programming? Let’s have a look at how quickly you can get started on a selection of simple expression-oriented programming languages. Today let’s try Clojure, Elm, F#, Haskell and OCaml. Online REPL No install required just point your browser at a URL and you’re off: Language Online REPL Clojure http://tryclj.com/ F# http://www.tryfsharp.org/ Elm http://elm-lang.org/tr[...]