There is one more useful application of script from the “Explore local network with F# Async Workflows” post. During the check of the machine availability we can collect IP addresses of all machines. After that we can compare IPs of different hosts names [...]

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One more interesting task is to explore local network and check which computers are alive. As a first step we need to get a list of computers which registered in Active Directory (as you understand, this approach works only for networks with Active Direct[...]

A question was recently asked on the Clojure Users group on LinkedIn about reasons to migrate to Clojure for enterprise applications in a Java shop. It's a fairly typical question from people in the Java world when they hear the buzz about Clojure, and of[...]

Late notice, but just to mention that Rachel Reese is giving an online session "Getting Started with F#" in about 90 minutes time! https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=M2JSRZ&role=attend&pw=NJ%22%256gC%21x When: Tuesday, Apr 16, 2013 12:00 PM[...]

I love to work on open source projects, but from time to time I have my doubts. My friend Daniel Nauck created a wonderful open source licensing project (see my blog post) and now we had to see this: I am not a lawyer and rebranding a tool might be permit[...]

I was going to title this post as ‘Now for something completely different’ but felt that a little bit too Pythonesque, and when I thought about it a bit it isn’t really completely just slightly different, namely C# rather than my usual F# posts. [...]

This article is inspired by an MVP summit talk about common pitfalls in the C# asynchronous programming model. I look at a number of easy to make mistakes when writing asynchronous code in C# and demonstrate that most of them would not easily happen when [...]

Last Thursday, I gave a talk at the Bay.NET user group in Berkeley, introducing F# to C# developers. First off, I have to thank everybody who came – you guys were great, lots of good questions, nice energy, I had a fantastic time! My goal was to highlight[...]