There are some pitfalls. One for instance is that it starts the editor wrong when running msysgit in the cygwin shell. Naturally I tried specifying different paths and ended up with the following configuration of gitconfig:c:\cygwin\home\wallymathieu.gitc[...]

I’ve updated the dotnet-console to enable help. It’s not finished, but it’s looking better. Still needs a lot of refactoring though. The tests document the more stable fluent interface. The stuff behind the fluent interface is more prone to change. It’s a[...]

Twitter now provides a streaming API which can be used to obtain a continuous stream of tweets on any set of topics, locations, etc., in real time. Read the full API details here. It would be nice to convert this … Continue reading →

Today's the day to say it loud and clear: I'm an Apple II kid.... I grew up in Toowoomba, Australia, and had the good fortune to go to a (then somewhat radical) primary school which had an Apple II+ for use in Year 6 and 7. I guess it was 1979-1982. My br[...]

Here are some details on an F# contract position at MSR Cambridge. Contract Position for Biological Modelling Language Development (F#) Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK - 4th October 2011 Microsoft Research Cambridge has available a 2-year contract posit[...]

My colleagues at MSR Cambridge in the research games team have released a Facebook app called “Project Waterloo” (http://apps.facebook.com/msrwaterloo).  The app allows users to play the two-player turn-based game called Blotto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wi[...]

Phil Trelford has a nice set of slides from a recent talk in Belfast called F# Eye for the C# Guy. F# Eye 4 the C# Guy  

I had a great time at NYC Code Camp this last weekend. About half the people in my talk already knew F# and were there to talk about Type Providers, the other half just came to see what this F# thing was all about. This post is to help those in the second[...]

Why so many monitors? I used to have the same kind of layout on my home computer while at the university by using X11. You have virtual desktops (not to be confused with the software) or workspaces. The same concept on mac os x differs significantly from [...]