One of the areas that I am very interested in is agents and I have been doing quite a lot of work in this area lately. Agents can be used for a multitude of different purposes ranging from: isolated message passing, object caching, finite state machines, web crawling, and even reactive user interfaces.  One of the ideas that I have been looking into lately is agent based scheduling. SchedulerAgent Listing 1 shows a simple Agent based scheduler: listing 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 [...]

One of the areas that I am very interested in is agents and I have been doing quite a lot of work in this area lately. Agents can be used for a multitude of different purposes ranging from: isolated message passing, object caching, finite state machines, web crawling, and even reactive user interfaces. One of the ideas that I have been looking into lately is agent based scheduling.

Everyone knows F# agents are cool right?  Well here’s yet another example of how versatile they can be… There was a series of posts last April by Stephen Toub from the pfxteam at Microsoft.  I was reading through some of the posts again the other day and thought some of the ideas presented there would make interesting projects in F# to demonstrate the flexibility and succinctness of the language.  I thought the ObjectPool example would make an interesting project in F# using agents aka MailboxProcessors. [...]

Everyone knows F# agents are cool right?  Well here’s yet another example of how versatile they can be… There was a series of posts last April by Stephen Toub from the pfxteam at Microsoft.  I was reading through some of the posts again the other day and thought some of the ideas presented there would [...]

Everyone knows F# agents are cool right? Well here’s yet another example of how versatile they can be… There was a series of posts last April by Stephen Toub from the pfxteam at Microsoft. I was reading through some of the posts again the other day and thought some of the ideas presented there would make interesting projects in F# to demonstrate the flexibility and succinctness of the language. I thought the ObjectPool example would make an interesting project in F# using agents aka MailboxProcesso[...]