August 2008 - Posts

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F# Releases September 2008 CTP! by podwysocki

Don Syme just announced today the F# Community Technical Preview (CTP) Release September 2008 which is now available for download as well the launch of the MSDN F# Developer Center . I've been playing with these builds lately and they are great improvements...
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Reminder: DC ALT.NET - 8/28/2008 - Ruby with Jeff Schoolcraft by podwysocki

The August meeting for DC ALT.NET will be on August 28th, 2008 from 7-9PM. Check our site and our mailing list for continuing updates and future meetings. This month, Jeff Schoolcraft , ASP.NET MVP, will host a conversation on Ruby. This will include...
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Async Computation Expressions - Resource and Exception Management by podwysocki

For the next part of my coverage of Asynchronous Computation Expressions, I'm going to talk about the things you get for free when you use them. I was reminded of this during a recent chat with Greg Young about how hard it was during asynchronous operations...
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Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code Redux by podwysocki

Last month, I posted my Functional C# presentation for the Rockville .NET User Group (RockNUG) . Yesterday, I was able to finally present the material, although I was feeling under the weather and there was a lot of information in just that brief amount...
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Recursing on Recursion - Continuation Passing by podwysocki

In this continuing series of my back to basics, I've been talking about recursion, and various strategies around using it effectively. This includes covering the basic types of recursion, whether it be linear, binary, and tail. Then I took it a step further...
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Adding Async Operations to Asynchronous Computation Expressions in F# by podwysocki

Asynchronous Computation Expressions are an extremely powerful feature in F#. It's important to not only know how to use them, but also to extend the behavior so that other classes can bind and perform asynchronous behavior. What I want to show in this...
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DC ALT.NET - 8/28/2008 - Ruby with Jeff Schoolcraft by podwysocki

The August meeting for DC ALT.NET will be on August 28th, 2008 from 7-9PM. Check our site and our mailing list for continuing updates and future meetings. This month, Jeff Schoolcraft , ASP.NET MVP, will host a conversation on Ruby. This will include...
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Task Parallel Library and Async Computation Expressions by podwysocki

Very recently, I've given a few talks on Asynchronous and Concurrent Programming in F#. In this talk, I gave a brief overview of the options you have when dealing with concurrency and asynchronous behavior. During these talks, I was asked a few times...
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Recursing into Recursion - Memoization by podwysocki

Lately, I've been heads down on a lot of concurrency items which will hopefully come out soon. In the mean time, I want to get back to the basics one last time with recursion. As I posted earlier, I've been talking about recursion in the past couple of...
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