Noda Time is nearing v1.0, which means I'm spending more time writing documentation than code. It also means reviewing the APIs we've got with a critical eye - whether that's removing extraneous members, adding useful ones, or moving things around. (In pa[...]

As announced on Jason Zander’s blog, Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available for download! The release includes the Beta version of F# 3.0, which introduces F# Information Rich Programming. We have some new F# features to announce in this Beta release, inc[...]

Jon Harrop, who is a strong advocate for functional programming, recently tweeted some links to questions on programmers.stackexchange.com (here and here) I’m generalizing a bit (not much though) but the basic substance of these questions amounted to “Why[...]

Thanks to Fervent Coder we have Chocolatey. It can be used to setup a development machine with new software. Installing java, notepad++ becomes as easy as:cinst javaruntime …

Thanks to Fervent Coder we have Chocolatey. It can be used to setup a development machine with new software. Installing java, notepad++ becomes as easy as:cinst javaruntime …

In math we use the remainder for modular-arithmetic. That is given two numbers and we already saw that we can express as where is in the range – and we call this the remainder of dividing by , so for … Continue reading →

Note: don’t forget to check out the Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers.   Since my last round of benchmarks on binary serializers, there’s a new player in town – MessageShark, which at the time of this writing does n[...]

Sometimes when you quit firefox while downloading something, firefox will remove the file, but the dock item “downloads” will still contains a “somerandom string” with “.part” extension. To remove, these files: Delete the dock item “Downloads” then add it[...]

It’s just before lunch and nearly 4 hours into the 8 hour game writing competition and we have about 200 lines of F# and some sprites on the screen. Keys: Z=left, X=right, Q=up, A=down, Space=shoot As you can see we've gone for a bit of a[...]