Some weeks ago, Microsoft Research announced NLP toolkit called MSR SPLAT. It is time to play with it and take a look what it can do. Statistical Parsing and Linguistic Analysis Toolkit is a linguistic analysis toolkit. Its main goal is to allow easy acce[...]

Let's look at what F# and Haskell can offer us while reimplementing grouping consecutive integers in C# algorithm. F#: Haskell: For my current taste, the Haskell version is more readable due to the awesome separate type annotation and to the lovely Erlan[...]

In Dart there is an interesting language feature called ‘Factory Constructors’, which effectively allows you to override the default behaviour when using the new keyword – instead of always creating a new instance the factory constructor is merely require[...]

There are a lot of interesting programming languages out there, but downloading and setting up the environment can be very time consuming when you just want to try one out. The good news is that you can try out many languages in your browser straight away[...]

Last night I gave a talk at the F#unctional Londoners meetup about my experiences working in a team building a game in a day at the recent London GameCraft game jam event. We went with a continuous runner and used XNA to build the game on Windows with a h[...]

I was recently invited to chat to the Mostly Erlang podcast about F#, with co-host Bryan Hunter, Fred Hebert (author of the excellent Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!) and fellow F# addict Phil Trelford (author of many popular F# libraries such as Ti[...]

Exactly two weeks ago, I started a three month internship at BlueMountain Capital in New York. They have a technical blog and should be well known to the F# community thanks to the R type provider which was written by Howard Mansell (@hmansell). I'll ha[...]

Exactly two weeks ago, I started a three month internship at BlueMountain Capital in New York. They have a technical blog and should be well known to the F# community thanks to the R type provider which was written by Howard Mansell (@hmansell). I'll ha[...]

A big F# community event is coming to NYC on September 18-19 – Progressive F# Tutorials. Jack Pappas and me are doing Code Quotations tutorial in advanced track. I want to do my share of promoting this great event. Here is something that might get you int[...]

I would like to talk on the subject of “Clarity of intent” in context of F# that was brilliantly raised by @pblasucci. Paul gave a great talk at our local NYC F# meetup and Lambda Jam Chicago. The idea of the blog first came to me at Lambda Jam Chicago wh[...]