June 2008 - Posts

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Reminder- DC ALT.NET Meeting - 6/24/2008 - Applied Functional Programming with F# by podwysocki

Just a reminder about tonight's DC ALT.NET meeting. I hope some from the FringeDC and the NoVA Language Group can make it out tonight as it's quite on topic. The June meeting for DC ALT.NET has been set up for June 24th from 7-9PM. Check out our site...
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Announcing FsTest - A Testing DSL for F# by podwysocki

Over the past couple of months, I've been working on some language oriented programming concepts in F# to prove how Domain Specific Languages could work. This coincided with my lofty goals of working towards more Behavior Driven Development (BDD) frameworks...
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Concurrency in .NET - Learning from Erlang by podwysocki

I'm finally getting back to my concurrency in .NET posts after a brief hiatus after I got sidetracked on various other functional programming issues such as some language oriented programming and functional C#. In the previous post , I talked about MPI...
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Functional C# - Learn from F# and LINQ by podwysocki

In the last installment of Functional C# , I covered a bit about creating delayed evaluation lists based upon unfolding constructs and generating lists from external resources. Those are some of the higher level high order functions you can do in C#,...
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Functional C# - Unfolding Lists by podwysocki

In a previous post , I talked about how I thought C# has some significant drawbacks from being considered a more functional language. But, that wasn't to exclude it as a language altogether, as it has some pretty useful features. Lately, when I have been...
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ICFP Programming Contest by podwysocki

With great excitement, Portland State University and the University of Chicago has announced the 11th annual International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) Programming Contest to be held from July 11th to July 14th, 2008. If you're not familiar...
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DC ALT.NET Meeting - 6/24/2008 - Applied Functional Programming with F# by podwysocki

The June meeting for DC ALT.NET has been set up for June 24th from 7-9PM. Check out our site and our mailing list as more information becomes available. Once again, I'd like to thank the Motley Fool for hosting the event as they did back in May. This...
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Functional C# Revisited - Into the Great Void by podwysocki

Lately, I've been doing some functional C# in both user groups and on this blog. As the C# language has evolved it has definitely taken some functional programming aspects, such as high order functions, extension methods, LINQ and so on. But with that...
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RubyNation - August 1st-2nd by podwysocki

One of the interesting things happening in the Ruby community is the budding of regional Ruby conferences. The Washington DC area is a pretty strong area for Ruby and Ruby on Rails as we have two Ruby user groups, Northern Virginia Ruby Users Group (NovaRUG...
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Language Oriented Programming and Functional Unit Testing in F# by podwysocki

As I've covered earlier , I'm very interested in the unit testing and behavior testing story in F# and functional programming. And as I've indicated earlier, I'm pretty fascinated by Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) as well in this regard. In the past...
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