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[ANN] DC ALT.NET – 11/24/2009 “Stop Talking, Start Teaching” with Jeff Casimir by podwysocki

As a group, we’ve been focusing a lot on technology on such things as JavaScript, MongoDB and so on. This month, I’d like to take a step back as a group and instead focus on some soft skills. When I started this group back in 2007, I had the idea that...
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Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part II by podwysocki

In my previous post , I talked a little bit about the parts of the Reactive Framework that are coming to the .NET 4 BCL as well as their implementation in F# as part of F# First Class Events. This time, let’s come back to the Reactive Framework itself...
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F# October 2009 CTP/Beta2 – F# + Rx Together At Last by podwysocki

Lately, I’ve been covering a lot of F# First Class Events as well as the Reactive Framework which has been leading up to a head as it were. It has been announced through Channel 9 that .NET 4 will include the two major interfaces from the Reactive Framework...
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[ANN] DC ALT.NET 10/22/2009 – MongoDB with David James by podwysocki

This month DC ALT.NET will once again move into the not often covered subjects in the .NET world, in covering MongoDB with David James . Stay tuned to the mailing list for up to date details. There has been a bit of discussion around non relational databases...
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F# First Class Events – Composing Events Until Others by podwysocki

After a comment on my last post in regards to First Class Events in F#, I thought I’d revisit them briefly before going back to the Reactive Framework series . In particular, this comment was in regards to implementing the until combinator using F# First...
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Introducing the Reactive Framework Part I by podwysocki

During my series about first class events in F#, I made frequent mention of the LiveLabs Reactive Framework (Rx), without going into much detail as to what it is. Now that the series is complete and we understand both how F# first class events work, as...
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Functional Programming Fundamentals Lectures by podwysocki

Earlier this year, I had the privilege to record a Channel 9 video session covering functional programming basics with Erik Meijer and Charles Torre. We covered some of the basics, but at some point you need to go back to the fundamentals in order to...
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Generically Constraining F# – Part III by podwysocki

In the previous post , we talked about some of the generic restrictions that you could do in F#. I showed some of the basics and how you might use them to your advantage. We covered the type constraint, null constraint and explicit member constraint....
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Generically Constraining F# – Part II by podwysocki

In the previous post, we talked about the basic problems with C# generic restrictions. We covered how it was possible in fact in the CLR to do these restrictions and sure enough the F# language supports them. This time, we’ll go deeper into what kinds...
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Pondering Axum + F# by podwysocki

It’s been a while since I’ve posted about Axum as I’ve been posting about other asynchronous and parallel programming models. After two releases of the Axum standalone language and lots of good user feedback, it’s time to ponder what could be with Axum...
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