F# Jobs on the Rise

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Programming | No Comments »

I’ve received 3 inquiries in the last 2 weeks as to my “job availability status”, all surrounding my experience with F# on my resume. I’m no longer looking for a ... Read more..

Hunting the Elusive ‘tail’ Opcode in F#

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in Programming | 1 Comment »

Awhile back I wrote a post about tail-call optimizations that the F# compiler used to eliminate stack overflows. Brian McNamera commented about another optimization that I didn’t illustrate – the ... Read more..

Recursion in F# and the Tail Recursion Police

Monday, January 5th, 2009 Posted in Programming | 4 Comments »

A helpful comment on a post over at HubFS by Brian McNamara really helped me wrap my mind around tail recursion and why it's immensely important to understand in F#. ... Read more..

Assembly Information for F# Console Applications

Sunday, January 4th, 2009 Posted in Programming | No Comments »

Right on the heels of my last post about an AssemblyInfo.fs file for F# Libraries (DLLs), we can do the same thing for F# console applications with a slight modification. ... Read more..

Assembly Information for F# Libraries

Sunday, January 4th, 2009 Posted in Programming | 2 Comments »

It's standard practice for C# applications and assemblies to have metadata attached to the assembly specifying the version number, name, company, author, etc. Usually this information is specified in the ... Read more..

Project Euler, Problem 11 in F# using Pattern Matching

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 Posted in Programming | 1 Comment »

This week at the F# for Scientists Book Club we got onto the topic of Project Euler, problem 11.  To restate the problem: In the 20x20 grid ... Read more..

Using the Microsoft Charting Library from F#

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in Programming | 2 Comments »

Since Microsoft released the charting controls used in SQL Server 2008 reporting as a standalone product, I decided to try them out from F#. This makes a lot of sense ... Read more..

F# Tip: Show a Form In Both Compiled and Interactive Mode

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in Programming | 1 Comment »

Lately I've FINALLY been getting back into some F# after a brief hiatus.  I love the way that it keeps stretching my brain.  Things have changed quite a bit with ... Read more..

Long-awaited F# CTP Release!

Saturday, August 30th, 2008 Posted in Programming | 1 Comment »

I just found out that the September 2008 CTP of F# is now available!  I've been anticipating this latest release ever since Don Syme announced that they would be moving ... Read more..