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F# Discoveries This Week 03/26/2010

A ton of new posts this week, far too many to enumerate.  My “Favorite New F# Blogger of the Week” (seems like this is becoming a trend) is the mysterious Neil of Techneilogy.  I’ve been enjoying his honest exploration of F# and semantic
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tags: fscheck xunit agents wpf
Mar 26 2010 07:39 PM
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F# Discoveries This Week 03/12/2010

Tons this week.  Vladimir Matveev’s is my favorite new F# blogger with very well written data structure posts, Ashley Feniello continues his fantastic FScheme series, and Jomo Fisher posts some great Freebase and DGML examples.  That’s just the
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tags: f# fsharp ironpython roundup
Mar 13 2010 01:55 AM
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F# Discoveries This Week 02/25/2010

Between Atalasoft, Professional F# 2.0 and the MVP Summit I’ve been completely swamped and ended up with quite a backlog of posts.  Between the Brian-Chris F# Code Battle, Luca’s LChart, Ashley’s continuing FScheme series and Matthew’s MongoDB stuff
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tags: f# optimization fsharp roundup
Feb 26 2010 02:19 AM
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Get Started with F# via Higher order IEnumerable<T> extension methods in C#

The more I use F# the more I want to write my every day production C# code in a functional way.&#160; To this end, I’ve written a few higher order extension methods as the need arose.&#160; I wanted to take a moment and share them with you.&#1
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tags: f# c# lists fsharp
Feb 13 2010 04:40 AM
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F# Discoveries This Week 02/08/2010

Back again with another F# community roundup.   There’s been a ton of great content this week, almost too much.  To try to combat this I’ve attempted to sort posts roughly in terms of how interesting I found them.  All were worth the
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tags: f# fsharp roundup wpf
Feb 09 2010 12:02 AM
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F# Discoveries This Week 01/29/2010

Many apologies if I missed your post.  Having skipped last week due to some uncontrollable circumstances left me with quite a large number to sort through.  My personal favorite this week is Ashley Feniello’s series.  SICP eat your heart
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tags: f# fsharp roundup quotations
Jan 30 2010 12:10 AM
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F# Discoveries This Week 01/13/2010

Back again this week with a fresh batch of F# Posts, Videos and Events.  I’ve been enjoying Matthew Podwysocki’s “Much Ado About Monads” series quite a lot.  They are well worth checking out for beginner and advanced alike.   Events If you
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tags: f# fsharp roundup haskell
Jan 13 2010 09:40 PM
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F# Discoveries This Week 01/05/2010

It’s 2010, the year of F#, and the quantity of posts in this last week reflects it.  Not to pick favorites but the work Tomas Petricek has been doing with Accelerator is amazing, be sure to check it out. Also, I’d like to quickly thank everyone who
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tags: f# fsharp roundup fsug
Jan 06 2010 02:18 AM
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F# Discoveries This Week 12/29/2009

It's been a bit of a light week with the holidays.  Although, for the truly dedicated, that's just a chance to get some quality time in with with a favorite programming language (or to write a poem about it).   Tomas Petricek uses Accelerator
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tags: f# fsharp roundup algorithms
Dec 29 2009 09:24 PM
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F# Discoveries This Week 12/21/2009

By far the most exciting news this week was the preview release of Microsoft Research Accelerator.  Posts on this topic by Satnam Signh and Tomas Petricek have left the F# world buzzing.  This, however, is just the tip of the F# iceberg. 
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tags: f# fsharp roundup functional programming
Dec 21 2009 09:40 PM
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F# Discoveries This Week 12/14/2009

An almost overwhelming number of posts this week with topics including the Skills Matter Programming Exchange, LAgent, data structures, service oriented architecture, monads, infinite sequences, timing F# functions, functional design, and much
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tags: f# fsharp roundup inheritance
Dec 14 2009 08:36 PM
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F# Discoveries This Week 12/06/2009

We have a great selection of links this week with topics including discriminated unions, equality and comparison constraints, purely functional data structures, a language performance comparison, and a couple of 1.9.7.8 compatibility tweaks for XNA and
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tags: f# fsharp roundup haskell
Dec 07 2009 03:44 AM
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F# Discoveries This Week 11/30/2009

A great deal going on this past week with Chris Smith releasing the source samples for Programming F#, Julien Ortin writing a spelling corrector, Matthew Moloney exploring the Azure worker role, Steve Gilham playing with NDepend and a flurry of Reactive
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tags: f# fsharp roundup wcf
Nov 30 2009 09:14 PM
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Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing in C# and F#

Recently I've been working with some local search techniques and wanted to share my Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing solution. The general idea of Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing is that in each iteration of the hill climbing process you apply a set of
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tags: f# functional c# fsharp
Nov 29 2009 09:24 PM
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F# Discoveries This Week 11/22/2009

Over this past week at PDC I was lucky enough to see some fantastic sessions and spend time with members of the F# and greater Visual Studio language teams.  Naturally, these experiences have left me both floored and swimming in new ideas. 
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tags: f# c# vb.net fsharp
Nov 23 2009 04:19 AM
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PDC09 Keynote Day 2 - Silverlight 4.0 and Free Laptops?!

Say goodbye to WinForms, WPF, and maybe even AJAX.  Today Scott "The Gu" Guthrie took the stage and blew everyone away with the extensive desktop-app replacing features of Silverlight 4.   This occurred directly after the exciting
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tags: silverlight pdc09 laptop sharepoint
Nov 19 2009 05:34 AM
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PDC09 Keynote: Open Source, Open Platforms and the Democratization of Data

No one was surprised this year at PDC when it was revealed that the theme for the show was to be Azure and cloud computing.  What did raise some eyebrows (including my own) was Microsoft's new found attitude towards interoperability with other
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tags: azure wordpress open platforms data
Nov 18 2009 01:55 AM
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F# - Designing Functional Interfaces for Pipelining

So you have an Object Oriented library but yet want to be able to use F#'s functional pipelining feature to design expressive data processing workflows.  How do you go about it? First, lets set a goal.  Some low hanging fruit so to speak. 
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tags: f# functional idisposable fsharp
Nov 12 2009 11:28 PM
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F# Discoveries This Week 11/09/2009

As momentum builds for the F# release with Visual Studio 2010, so too does the number of people blogging about the language.  This week we have a spec update, clarified comparisons, decision trees, porting gotchas and in depth explorations of the
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tags: f# il fsharp talks
Nov 09 2009 08:54 PM
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F# Discoveries This Week 11/02/2009

F# events are popping up all over the place and so I've included a separate section for them today.  As far as posts go I've stumbled across immutable queue and range libraries,  a post on the underlying implementation of discriminated unions,
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tags: f# c# fsharp roundup
Nov 02 2009 07:35 PM
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F# and You! - New Hampshire User's Group and Beyond

I've been working for a while on a new presentation which I was finally able to give last week at the New Hampshire .NET User Group.  F# and You! focuses on painting the big picture about F# instead of the off-putting details like having to learn
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tags: f# code camp fsharp talks
Oct 26 2009 09:54 PM
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F# Discoveries This Week 10/19/2009

This week the release of Visual Studio Beta 2 and the F# October CTP comes with the wonderful news that FSharp.Core.dll's interface has been stabilized.  In addition, there have been a number of great posts this past week.  Come inside and read
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tags: f# fsharp roundup events
Oct 20 2009 05:51 AM
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Code Camp 12: Boston - Why F#?

A couple of months ago I was talking to Lou Franco, the head of our Software Engineering department and fellow functional programming enthusiast, about the possibility of using F# for projects in the future.  Being business minded, he replied that
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tags: f# c# object oriented .net
Oct 16 2009 08:48 PM