Previously, when covering some of the additions to the .NET 4.0 Framework such as optional and named parameters , some of the other additions have caught my eye from the perspective of functional programming. Unlike .NET 3.5, this release is not as targeted towards functional programming as it is more...

Last week, I provided a basic wrap up of my functional programming talk at the Continuous Improvement in Software Development conference (KaizenConf) in Austin. Little did I realize that I was indeed being filmed while I talked by Mark Leon Watson . So, without further ado, enjoy the first 20 minutes...

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend and give a workshop at the Continuous Improvement in Software Development, or KaizenConf. I'm grateful to Scott Bellware and Dave Laribee for organizing this event. The tone and subject matter at this conference was both refreshing and interesting. This...

Very recently on a project, I was having significant issues with System.IO.Directory.GetFiles, in which I was getting an access denied message which prevented further crawling of certain directories. The performance issue was another issue that was detrimental. I wasn't happy either with the design of...

Update: Removed Internal Constructor constraint on AsyncBuilder. As I covered earlier in my post Functional .NET - LINQ or Language Integrated Monads , I talked about using asynchronous computation expressions (monads) from C# 3.0. Brian McNamara , of the F# team, posted back in May about using them...

As part of my talk at the Richmond Code Camp earlier in October, I had the opportunity to talk about how to implement functional aspects in C# 3.0. This talk revolved around such concepts as from mutable to immutable, from inheritance to functional composition, and the mind shift that is required. Part...

Thanks to everyone who attended my session "Functional C# or how I lost the foreach and learned to love LINQ". This is still an ongoing passion of mine that I hope to expand upon in the upcoming posts. Some of these topics include favoring functional composition over inheritance and implementing patterns...

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 This weekend, I'm going to be attending the Richmond...

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 and cover object oriented programming with F# from...

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 space both C# and F#. Some of the things I talked...