Robert Pickering (robert.pickering)
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Robert is an experienced software engineer, trainer, published technical author and community leader. Because of an interested in functional programming and the .NET platform he has followed the F# project since its earliest releases and his book “Foundations of F#”, Apress 2007, was the first book to be published on the F#. His book has been updated from the Visual Studio 2010 release of F# and is called “Beginning F#”, Apress 2009. He has spoken at many conferences and an organized several community events including the very successful Functional Programming eXchange in London with Skills Matter and runs the Beginning F# training course with Skills Matter. He lives in Paris and works for French technology consultancy Infinite Square.
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Mar 16, 2012
Join Robert Pickering, David Pollak, Erik Hesselink, Loic Denuziere, Kevin Wright, Andres Löh, Tomas Petricek, Miles Sabin, Bruce Durling, and some 100 others passionate about Functional Programming.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
In this presentation Robert Pickering will take a look at the concept of the tree data structure, and we’ll see how trees are everywhere we look in programing — from XML to lisp, and passing by indexes in RMDS. He will first look at the various different w...
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on 2/19/2012 10:12 AM
For Functional Programming eXchange 2012 and I’ve tried to put together a programming that mixes the best the functional programming community has to give. I wanted both talks that show how functional programming languages can be used more effectively and[...]
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on 1/27/2012 3:35 AM
Recently I sent a bit of time playing with Overtone. I’ve always been interested in music, but have little talent when it comes to playing instruments, so I really like the idea of a DSL for creating music. I was also inspired by one of my Christmas prese[...]
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on 11/4/2011 7:54 AM
Just a quick note to say that my talk “The Combinator Approach to Programming Domain Specific Languages with F#” is now available on Skills Matter site. I’ve put the code on github. If you enjoyed the talk I’ll be giving it again at CodeKen, the conferen[...]
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on 10/12/2011 10:51 PM
Ever since it was announced that Dart would be announced at GOTO conference I’ve been wonder what dart would be like. I thought I’d take the time put down my initial thoughts here. Is there a need for another language? Tim Anderson poses the question ni[...]
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on 9/18/2011 1:29 AM
I have an idea for a type provider, so now that the type provider bits are finally publicly available I set to work building it. However it turns out just implementing a type provider is pretty tricky (not really that much of a surprise I supose), so I th[...]
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