I’m lately trying to get (back) into Lisp/Scheme/Clojure-Space. While trying to get a reasonable Windows-environment for Clojure set-up (a pain… a PAIN – suggestions welcome) a stumpled upon Racket and I have to say I really like this (at least … Continue[...]

This week I had a dig through the old Commodore VIC-20 cassette tapes I had languishing in the garage and stumbled upon a game I was working on, just for fun, when I was about 11 or 12. After playing it on a genuine 8-bit 3.5K VIC, I managed to read the t[...]

In the last article we talked about subtraction. But of course there is more to “programming” than just arithmetic. One of the most basic things we need is a way to decide an output based on some value. You all … Continue reading →

As a C++11 programmer you’ve probably played with type inference and lambda functions and may now feel curious about trying a functional first programming language like F#. F# is a first class .Net programming language that ships with Visual Studio. Altho[...]

Nachdem es sich die letzten beiden Jahre mehr und mehr angekündigt hat, wurde der .NET Open Space in Leipzig nun in Dev Open Space 2012 umgetauft. Dies trägt dem Punkt Rechnung, dass die Themenwünsche der Teilnehmer immer breiter geworden sind und wir uns[...]

In F# you can write an extension method like this: Whilst this will work perfectly fine in your F# code, the extension method will not be visible to any C# code using the FileInfo type because F# and C# compiles extension methods differently. To make C#-c[...]

There is news on the faster F# Printf.* story. We released an alternative implementation as a package today. NuGet: IntelliFactory.Printf Source: https://bitbucket.org/IntelliFactory/printf Some background: F# Printf.* functions are a very nice interf[...]

I’m happy to announce that I’m giving one of the “Progressive F# Tutorials 2012” in London this year. This event is going to be legendary. Abstract: Test-Driven Development can give you a lot of benefits for your code but also needs a lot of practice. Com[...]

After the official Visual Studio 2012 launch yesterday I think it’s a good idea to announce two new type providers which are based on the DGMLTypeProvider from the F# 3.0 Sample Pack. Synchronous and asynchronous state machine The first one is only a smal[...]