SOLID and its relevance to FThere has been an increasing amount of exposure for F# and functional programming lately. If you come from an object-orientated background a change in mindset is required when working with functional programming, there is[...]

As with almost any performance work, your mileage may vary (in particular the 64-bit JIT may work differently) and you almost certainly shouldn't care. Relatively few people write production code which is worth micro-optimizing. Please don't take this pos[...]

In the previous post I explained, at a very high level, that monads are really about function composition with side activities. In this post, I will use an example based on F#’s Async monad to demonstrate practical uses of monads. … Continue reading →

In order to upgrade only a subset of the outdated packages for macports: port outdated | grep py2 | awk ‘{print $1}’ | tr “\n” “ “ | sed ‘s/^/sudo port upgrade /g’ | sh To only update the packages with anything to do with “py2”.

Way back in 2005 Nguyen Van Thien and Dinh Thi Thuy Nga, two computer science students from Vietnam, got in contact asking me to help them share the “Chinese Chess” computer game they’d written in F#. The game plays well and has nice graphics and sounds, [...]

I’ve been neglecting strangelights.com a bit lately, mainly due to lack of time. So, today I finally got round to fixing a few things that had been bugging me and clean away some of the old and out of data material, especially in the F# resources section.[...]

The F# team is very excited to pass on the news that Tomas Petricek's Real-World F# Programming Articles are now available on MSDN! Congratulations to Tomas, Keith, Yin and Gordon who have worked so hard on this. Here's the chapter outline: Chapter I: I[...]