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[ANN] DC ALT.NET 9/10/2009 – Webmachine with Kevin Smith by podwysocki

This month, DC ALT.NET is moving the meeting a little forward this month and teaming with NOVALANG and the Erlang Users of Arlington/DC to talk about the Webmachine REST Toolkit. We at DC ALT.NET continue to strive to push developers to look outside their...

The “Anti-For” Campaign by podwysocki

Recently, there has been an effort launched called the “Anti-If Campaign” in which they deride the use of if statements and instead, focus on Object Oriented Principles in order to create more flexible designs. Now certainly, I have a sympathetic ear...

Axum – Ping Pong with Ordered Interaction Points by podwysocki

UPDATE: Removed code and explained that what I had was not intended behavior After a slight diversion into F# mailbox processing, it’s time to come back to talk a little bit more about Axum . In our last Axum post , we discussed using dataflow networks...
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Actors in F# – The Bounded Buffer Problem by podwysocki

In the previous post , I covered an example of an auction simulation using asynchronous message passing and a shared nothing approach using the MailboxProcessor class in F#. The auction example was a great piece to demonstrate scalability by adding additional...

F# Actors Revisited by podwysocki

UPDATE: Removed ref cells to use two recursive loops In the previous post , I covered briefly about the actor model in F#. This style of concurrency, using asynchronous message passing and a shared-nothing approach through the use of mailboxes is a pretty...
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Axum – Ping Pong with Dataflow Networks by podwysocki

In the previous post , I gave the canonical Ping-Pong example in Axum and how it compared with Axum. I want to revisit this post because there are some areas in which we can rework it in addition to the other solutions we’ll visit. Some parts were needlessly...
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Axum – Introduction and Ping Pong Example by podwysocki

As it was announced last week , Axum, a .NET Domain Specific Language around safe, scalable parallel programming through the actor model and message passing was released to the world as a CTP. It was noted, that although this is an initial release, that...
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