Microsoft Research in Cambridge has ongoing Post-doctorate positions open for very high quality recent PhD-level graduates, and internships for current PhD candidates. I would like to encourage potential candidates interested in the field of web-delivered[...]

Would you like to see other teams at Microsoft doing specific things to support F# better? Then now you have a great way to let them know! For example, lets say you would like the .NET CLR to implement more and better floating point optimizations around S[...]

Lovely geekery when press play on tape plays cannon fodder with old game controllers. Why not monkey island :).

I touched on the topic of memoization in the past in relation to doing aspect-oriented programming with PostSharp, however, with functional languages like F#, Haskell or Erlang there is no such frameworks (although PostSharp should still work with F# to s[...]

I couldn’t find any decent .NET platform target compatibility chart, so I made one: It’s all rather self explanatory. Green combinations, like an “Any CPU” exe file and an x86 DLL on a 32-bit OS, are compatible. Red are incompatible. The Combined Chart sh[...]

 Visual Studio now has a great site where you can enter and vote on features for languages and otehr aspects of Visual Studio.  Submit and Vote on F# and Visual Studio Features Here! Please take the time to vote on features and submit new ones. This is a [...]

We've previously blogged about FSharpChart, an F# library that makes it easy to use F# for information-rich programming. FSharpChart works well with the Interactive Window, helping you prototype your code quickly. We're happy to announce an update to the [...]

Ever since it was announced that Dart would be announced at GOTO conference I’ve been wonder what dart would be like. I thought I’d take the time put down my initial thoughts here. Is there a need for another language? Tim Anderson poses the question ni[...]