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Upcoming Events - Richmond, Ruby DCamp and more by podwysocki

The next couple of months are pretty busy for me. There are several items worth noting whether I'm speaking or just plain attending. This is a great season for community events and chances for continuous improvement. Richmond Code Camp - October 4, 2008...

Object Oriented F# - Creating Classes by podwysocki

In the past couple of posts, I covered extension everything in F#. This allows me to extend .NET types with such things as extension static and instance methods, properties, properties with indexers, events and so on. But, let's go back to the beginning...

Herding Code Episode 18 - Functional Programming and F# by podwysocki

A couple of days ago, I had the pleasure of recording Episode 18 of Herding Code on Functional Programming and F#. The topic on their minds was around functional programming, and more in particular with some of the things I've been doing around the .NET...

Functional C# - Pattern Matching by podwysocki

In the past, I've covered quite a bit of functional programming in C# 3.0 and how you can implement some of the basic constructs using the language. In preparation for the Richmond Code Camp coming up on October 4th, for which I'm planning to present...

Object Oriented F# - More Extension Everything by podwysocki

In a previous post , I covered a few ways we can do extensions methods, properties, events and so on with F#. After a few chats, I realized I may have missed a couple of cases that I wanted to cover today. These two cases are extension operators and extension...

Side Effects and Functional Programming by podwysocki

One of my first posts at CodeBetter was in regards to side effects and how, when unmanaged, can be truly evil. Today, I want to revisit that topic briefly in regards to functional programming and managing side effects. When I was out in Redmond a couple...

Object Oriented F# - Extension Everything by podwysocki

A post by Jeremy Miller caught my eye this morning in regards to extension methods in Javascript . While I think that's pretty interesting, I don't think it's a real fair comparison. Instead, I want to revisit C# and even F# with regards to extension...

FsTest Updated with F# CTP by podwysocki

Back in June, I announced the creation of FsTest , a testing Domain Specific Language for F#. Since that time, the F# team has released the September 2008 CTP, which finally gives F# full citizenship within Visual Studio with real project files. I felt...

Functional Programming Notables #1 by podwysocki

Lately, there has been a lot of momentum around functional programming. While I was away on vacation for the past couple of weeks, I came across quite a few items that caught my eye. This isn't meant to be a link blog by any means, but to show that there...

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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