Today's the day to say it loud and clear: I'm an Apple II kid.... I grew up in Toowoomba, Australia, and had the good fortune to go to a (then somewhat radical) primary school which had an Apple II+ for use in Year 6 and 7. I guess it was 1979-1982. My brother had already taught me the joys of a programmable HP calculator, and my Dad had taught us the joys of 8'' floppy disks and programming Mastermind games on his (Digital?) machine at work. At primary school we got to set our own timetables, and I includ[...]

Here are some details on an F# contract position at MSR Cambridge. Contract Position for Biological Modelling Language Development (F#) Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK - 4th October 2011 Microsoft Research Cambridge has available a 2-year contract position for development of a programming environment for designing and simulating computer models of biological systems. The environment supports a family of modelling languages and simulation algorithms, which are being used in a number of key scientific proj[...]

My colleagues at MSR Cambridge in the research games team have released a Facebook app called “Project Waterloo” (http://apps.facebook.com/msrwaterloo).  The app allows users to play the two-player turn-based game called Blotto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blotto_games) with other Facebook users. Blotto is an incredibly interesting game which is well known in the game theory community.  We would like to invite you to play this game with family and friends, and give us your feedback.  Your feedback would b[...]

Phil Trelford has a nice set of slides from a recent talk in Belfast called F# Eye for the C# Guy. F# Eye 4 the C# Guy