April, 2010
03 April 2010
I have been looking at F# for a while now and seem a few really interesting samples and snippets on howto’s. This has been great to see the basic outline of the language and the possibilities, however a nagging question in the back of my mind has been what does...
02 April 2010
Where would I be without the inspiration of the following South African developers who are constantly contributing to the .NET community.
02 April 2010
For anyone else that is going to use this book – read the following errata about the book.
02 April 2010
So I have a brief hour or so that I can dedicate today to reading my F# book. It’s a public holiday and my wife’s birthday and I have a ton of assignments for UNISA that I need to complete – but I just had to try something in F#....
March, 2010
30 March 2010
For a few years now I have been looking for effective ways to be involved in the “community”. While there are a few community programming events in my area (Johannesberg), there isn’t too much face to face stuff – which has caused me to turn to the internet.
30 March 2010
So it has finally arrived from Amazon. Expert F# by Don Syme, Adam Granicz & Antonio Cisternino.
23 March 2010
So I am half way through dev days in Johannesburg. It has been quite an interesting day… Maybe it is me, but this year it hasn’t been as OMG as at previous conferences.
20 March 2010
So some more basics… One of the things you will be taught at any college after conquering arrays is different derivatives of collections. Stack is one of the simplest of those and very useful…
20 March 2010
General
20 March 2010
I spent a few hours scratching my head on this one… So I thought I would blog about it in case someone else had the same headache.
15 March 2010
So I have been battling around with F# for a few weeks and it has been frustrating just getting my brain around the syntax etc. Then someone put a comment on my blog that I should check out the following online book called the F# Survival Guide.
11 March 2010
General
09 March 2010
My brain still thinks in C#!!! I have been looking at F# and trying to figure out the basics of it, but all the time in the back of my mind I am going – what is the C# equivalent to this or that… It’s frustrating because I almost want...
02 March 2010
So… I am a C# coder at heart, but F# is starting to fascinate me. Today I thought I would try and figure out the basics of getting the two languages to talk to each other.
01 March 2010
01 March 2010
I recently watched “An Introduction to Microsoft F#” on Channel 9. I would say this is one of the best overviews of the F# language that I have seen and really puts things into perspective. I have been playing around with the basics of the language, but just didn’t get...
February, 2010
20 February 2010
A stack is a LIFO (last in first out) data structure. A stack has at least two basic method calls – push & pop. Push, “pushes” an item on the top of the stack. Pop, removes the top most item off the stack.
20 February 2010
The process of solving a problem by reducing it into smaller versions of itself is called recursion. This problem solving technique can be a very powerful way to solve certain types of problems that would be very verbose and lengthy using other techniques such as an iterative approach.
20 February 2010
General
20 February 2010
I was reading a blog post by Chris Smith on F#. Firstly, a really good blog post and well worth a read if you are interested in learning the basics of F# as I am.
