Using Riak MapReduce with F#

The F# community member John Liao has blogged about using the Riak distributed database system with F#. From Wikipedia: Riak is a NoSQL database implementing the principles from Amazon's Dynamo paper. Lately, I have been reading the book Signals and Noise by Nate Silver. His book references an IBM webpage that claims the world is … Continue reading Using Riak MapReduce with F# →

The F# Weekly #13

I was particularly inspired by the latest F# Weekly from the F# Community (feed here). This edition really shows the incredible range of application of F# and activity in the F# community, from HTML5 GeoLocation examples using WebSharper to interoperability with Java to GPGPU programming to machine learning algorithms using Adaptive Boosting. Enjoy! Don … Continue reading The F# Weekly #13 →

F# Community Code Sprint this Saturday in London

The London F# community are holding an F# Community Code Sprint this Saturday in London. Informal and fun! Why code sprints ? You want to learn about F#, not just by the book, but by getting the expert’s trick as well ? You already know F# and would like to help the community, but … Continue reading F# Community Code Sprint this Saturday in London →

“FinalBot” now supports F# as a language

We all love programming competitions. The folk over at FinalBot are taking this one step further, for seriously competitive developers. Welcome to FinalBot, a community for competitive software developers. ...FinalBot provides a set of competitions with rules and guidelines. Your job is to develop a bot—your player in this world—to compete on your behalf. Once … Continue reading “FinalBot” now supports F# as a language →

A Simple Windows Service Template for F#

Happy days! Carl Nolan is flying along with templates for F# programming - we now have a Simple Windows Service template up on Visual Studio gallery! From Carls' blog: This template provides several projects elements: A MyService.fs and Program.fs source file providing the service elements An Installer.fs source file enabling the service to be installed using … Continue reading A Simple Windows Service Template for F# →