Microsoft Research are accepting applications for internships at our research lab in Cambridge, UK, for internships in Summer 2014. Applicants must currently be pursuing a Masters or PhD in Computer Science. More details on applying can be found here:http[...]

A very short post, partly as a reminder for my future self. Check out the following Leiningen plugins: lein-ancient - analyzes your project.clj and lets you know which dependencies are out of date. lein-exec - directly execute Clojure code snippets, or w[...]

We are excited to announce the first release of CloudSharper Local, a spin-off of CloudSharper that uses your local machine to serve the main CloudSharper front-end. CloudSharper is an awesome new way to work with F# on the web. It enables you to use F# [...]

While imperative programming language paradigm depends on updating mutable variables (or introducing side effect) to change state of the program, pure functional programming only uses immutable data structures to represent their state. Side effect is requ[...]

While imperative programming language paradigm depends on updating mutable variables (or introducing side effect) to change state of the program, pure functional programming only uses immutable data structures to represent their state. Side effect is requ[...]

Suppose you want to merge an assembly A (AssemblyA.dll) with another assembly B (AssemblyB.dll) with ILMerge into a merged assembly (Merged.dll), and everything works fine until the user of your merged assembly also references that AssemblyB.dll, at which[...]

I gave a talk about our use of F# at last year’s CodeMesh event, and the recording is now up on Vimeo. Yan Cui — F# in Social Gaming from Erlang Solutions on Vimeo.   You can also find the slides for the talk up on SlideShare:   F# in social gaming from Y[...]

One of the pitfalls with LINQ which I have fallen into on multiple occasions is around the use of the OfType<T> extension method with dictionaries. Either through carelessness or changes to the underlying variable (a class property being changed from list[...]

A little over a year ago I wrote a post about Roslyn. Recently (after seeing Mads Torgersen‘s excellent NDC-london talk) I was inspired to attempt to write my own mini-C# compiler to address some of the missing features in C#. … Continue reading →

Over the last year a lot of work has been done on the F# addin for Xamarin Studio. Lots of great new features have been added and a lot of bugs have been squashed. I want to talk a bit about whats been happening and the evolution of the F# addin