Today's post involves the MagicOrdering project in source control (project 28). When I wrote part 16 of Eduasync, showing composition in the form of majority voting, one reader mailed me a really interesting suggestion. We don't really need to wait for a[...]

I’m pleased to announce Campfire Mono’s 3rd talk by Andrew Jones (gplus.to/ascjones), about developing applications with F# and F# on Mono: What: Developing applications with F# and F# on Mono. Who: Andrew Jones. Where: Microsoft Cape Town Offices, Golf P[...]

Jenkins is an extendable open source continuous integration server. In this blog post I show you how you can build FAKE’s Calculator sample with Jenkins. If you are familiar with Jenkins or Hudson then this should be straight forward. Install Jenkins Go t[...]

C# By default, arithmetic operations and conversions in C# execute in an unchecked context, you can use the checked keyword to switch a block of code to the checked context so that any arithmetic overflow that occurs in that block of code will cause the O[...]

As previously mentioned, at CodeMash 2012 I gave a very silly Pecha Kucha talk entitled "Coding in the style of Glee". The video is on YouTube, or can be seen embedded below: (There's also another YouTube video from a different angle.) This post gives [...]

I'm nearly home - on a bus back from Heathrow airport to Reading - returning from CodeMash 2012. This was my first US conference, and I had a wonderful time. It was pretty densely packed in terms of presenting / recording for me: I presented two back-[...]

  Come and work with the F# group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge! Microsoft Research in Cambridge has open positions for very high quality applicants with advanced computer science skills (normally recent PhD-level graduates or highly relevant industr[...]

Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I post links to F# jobs as a courtesy to the F# community. I particularly follow those in London, where we have F#unctional Londoners and other functional/finance/.NET user groups. Here are a few[...]

In the early days programming was considered a subdiscipline of mathematics. In fact, the very first person to write an algorithm was renowned as a mathematical genius. However, somewhere along the way we forgot. We began to think of ourselves as somethin[...]