April, 2010
09 April 2010
I am plodding along with my F# book. I have reached the part where I know enough about the syntax of the language to understand something if I read it – but not enough about the language to be productive and write something useful. A bit of a frustrating place...
06 April 2010
I’m loving my expert F# book – today I thought I would give a post on using mutable records as covered in Chapter 4 of Expert F#.
05 April 2010
So I am slogging away at my UNISA stuff. I have just finished doing the initial once non stop read through the first 11 chapters of my COS 201 Textbook - “Introduction to Computer Theory 2nd Edition” by Daniel Cohen. It has been an interesting couple of days, with familiar...
05 April 2010
In part one of this series I showed an example of encapsulation within a local definition. This is useful to know so that you are aware of the scope of value holders etc. but what I am more interested in is encapsulation with regards to generating useful F# code libraries...
04 April 2010
Things are slowly coming together – I was able to look at a bit of F# code and intuitively know what it was going to do (yay)… So today I saw a blog post by Bob Palmer on Fibonacci numbers in F# which inspired me to look at bit into...
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
