Today I gave a talk ”Science and Software Development” at the weactuallybuildstuff.com. The talk was largely inspired by Ben Goldacre’s “Bad Science” column and book and try to apply some of the ideas relating to the use and abuse of evidence in the softw[...]

This Monday the San Francisco Bay Area F# Meetup will be hearing from Jon Harrop on the topic of "Building a customizable business rules engine with F#" Business rules are the core of business applications; yet, once an application is deployed, it is ofte[...]

 A late reminder of the F# meetup in New York tonight - Thursday, November 29, 2012, 6:30 PM {m}brace - F# in the Cloud with George Stavroulakis of the {m}brace team  With the advent of cloud platforms and private data centers, developers face once more t[...]

An important library in the C# and F# open source communities is the Math.NET Numerics library. I blogged the first part in a (slow) series on using the library from F# back in June and there is another tutorial as part of the Numerical Libraries for F# a[...]

I recently completed the Coursera Social Network Analysis class. This was my first time taking a Coursera class. In this post, I will describe my experience with Coursera generally, and review the Social Network Analysis class in particular. Along with se[...]

WebSharper provides an extension to write ExtJS applications in F#. But did you know that you can easily use the visual designer ExtJS Architect in conjunction with WebSharper? Here is how.

I am still working my way through “Machine Learning in Action”, converting the samples from Python to F#. I am currently in the middle of chapter 6, dedicated to Support Vector Machines, which has given me more trouble than the previous ones. This post wi[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: Blogs & Tutorials Gaston Hillar posted “Functional Programming in the Financial Industry“ Dave Fancher wrote of “F# Interactive (FSI)“. Daniel Mohl blogged “F#, ASP.NET MVC, and MonoDevelo[...]

Ihr könnte die Demo Projekte für meinen DDC Talk am 26.11. ab sofort auf Github finden. (https://github.com/CarstenKoenig/DDCTalk2013_FunProgInCSharp)

This time we are going to get into a little bit of code and produce the simplest of all 3d solids, the tetrahedron. I know its not the most exciting of things but we have to start somewhere. The scope of 3D graphics in computers is so vast that [...]