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I now use Google Chrome to view .pdf files instead of Adobe Reader (formerly called Acrobat Reader). The Chome PDF Viewer plugin (chrome://plugins) has been shipping with Chrome since version 8 2010-12. Using Chrome to view .pdf files has several advantage over Adobe Reader: Chrome loads the ...

I spent a lot of time over the last couple of years learning F#. Over the last six months, I’ve spent most of my time learning and working in Scala. During part of both those times, I was working on the same set of code, ported to both languages. So, though this topic has been covered before,...

I just launched Windows Live Writer on my Windows 7 64-bit PC and it told me an update was available. While trying to run the update, it failed with this error: It looks like another program is preventing the installer from working.Error: 0x80070643Source: wllogin-amd64 I reran the installer a...

I hope to do a series covering some theory and implementation of the RSA algorithm in F# in the near future – and one of it’s main ingredients (for simplifying the hard calculations) is the Chinese remainder theorem – so … Continue reading →

About a month ago, I announced that most of the existing F# project templates on Visual Studio Gallery had been updated to include support for Visual Studio 11. In that post, I mentioned some new item templates that had been included in the update to the F# XAML Item Templates extension...

It’s a bit of a long story. A chain of events would unfurl that would lead me inextricably to writing a clone of a 70s video game. It started a few weeks ago while exploring early 90s dance tracks on Spotify, when I happened upon the seminal EP - Clonks Coming by the Sweet Exorcist. Later a lack...

Just to mention that there will be a talk on F# 3.0 at TechDays France in Paris, on February 7, at 4pm....

I'm catching up on blogging about what's been going on in F# lately....

This is going to be a new series on using TPL Dataflow with F#. First a little bit of history and background....

Legacy code is a problem in all languages, even F#. ...

The second project I recently completed in F# is a completely different animal. While the first one is a pet project I’ve put together in my spare time (with no deadline at all), this one has been a full-time work for my company (for this reason I cannot disclose some details or share source code...

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I’ve been playing with F# on and off for about one year, but only recently I was able to complete a few “real world” projects. I was so impressed that I decided to share my experience. In this two-part series I will talk about two very different projects to give you an idea of how wide the...

Thank you all for your comments on my previous post, I appreciate the time you all took in sharing your perspectives very much.  Many of you have brought up great analogies to demonstrate how you feel and in reading these responses I realized I must not have been very clear. There are some...

I was reading through Juval Löwy's Programming WCF Services book and wondering if I should do a series of WCF blog posts in F# based on Löwy's book when I ran into a common construct found in C# programs. That construct looks something like the following C# code:...

I assumed creating a div with jQuery takes more time compared to native document fragment creation. Surprise, I was wrong. I’ve created a test page on JSPerf at http://jsperf.com/jquery-vs-documentfragment. Simply put, the speed depends on the browser. Verdict: Use document fragment in all...

Physics can really improve immersion in a game, regardless of how faithful they are to reality. That's why I always enjoyed writing simple physics engine. Even though I have stuck to really simple physics engine, I always end up mixing accelerations and forces. That usually doesn't lead to much...

My article entitled "An Introduction to FSharpx" was published a few days ago. You can find it at http://www.developerfusion.com/article/136179/an-introduction-to-fsharpx....

Jenkins is an extendable open source continuous integration server which you can download at http://jenkins-ci.org/. In this blog post I show you how you can build the FAKE’s Calculator sample with Jenkins. If you are familiar with Jenkins or Hudson then this should be straight forward....