February 2010 - Posts

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Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observers by podwysocki

Looking back to the previous post, we covered how we create observable sequences, the producers of our data. We have quite a number of ways of creating these outside of events which we covered earlier. Now that we have these observable sequences, now...
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Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observables by podwysocki

In the previous post , we covered a little about the Reactive Framework (Rx) for JavaScript. Since that time we’ve learned that Jeffrey Van Gogh will be attending the upcoming JSConf 2010 and hoping to bring along some Reactive Extensions for JavaScript...
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Introduction to the Reactive Extensions to JavaScript by podwysocki

Readers of my blog probably know that I’m a bit into functional programming languages (F#, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell, etc) among other topics, but what you may not know is that I’m a huge JavaScript fan as well. Since I began in the industry (professionally...
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[ANN] DC ALT.NET: 2/24 - Getting the Right System with George Dinwiddie by podwysocki

The next DC ALT.NET meeting is taking place on 2/24/2010 from 7-9PM. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more information as it becomes available. In this meeting, once again we have George Dinwiddie, to give a talk on talk in the language of the business...
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The F# PowerPack Released on CodePlex by podwysocki

As announced yesterday , the new February 2010 release of F# is out. For those using Visual Studio 2008 and Mono, you can pick up the download here . This release is much more of a stabilization release instead of adding a lot of features including improvements...
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Upcoming Release of F# 2.0 by podwysocki

As you may have noticed with the recent release of the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate , that we are getting closer and closer to the first official release of the F# language. Shortly, there will be the standard zip/MSI file provided to those who...
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F# and the Dynamic Lookup Operator ala C# by podwysocki

In the previous post , we covered various scenarios around how we’d make the syntax around using the MongoDB C# Driver a little nicer and less stringy. And before that we looked at using and abusing these so called dynamic lookup operators . In the F#...
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Exploring MongoDB with F# by podwysocki

If you’ve been following me on Twitter , I’ve been digging a bit into MongoDB . When I was involved with the planning of NoSQLEast this past year, I sat down and used it in anger and was quite pleased with the results. Using it with a language which allows...
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Using and Abusing the F# Dynamic Lookup Operator by podwysocki

Lately, I’ve been playing with such things as MongoDB using F# to rapidly prototype ideas. With that, I’ve tried to rid myself of magic strings by using the F# dynamic lookup operator. I’ll cover exactly what I’m doing in the next post when using MongoDB...
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A Kick in the Monads – Writer Edition by podwysocki

In the past couple of Monads posts, we’ve talked briefly about the State and Reader Monads and their potential uses and misuses. Before this series completes, I have a few more to cover including the Writer, Continuation and eventually Observable monad...
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