This is my last post on this blog. My new blog is here: http://lucabolognese.wordpress.com/ I accepted a role as Director for Credit Suisse in London. I’m excited by the opportunity to work in the financial industry, a long-standing desire of mine. I...

I want to use F# as a exploratory data analysis language (like R ). But I don’t know how to get the same nice graphic capabilities. So I decided to create them. Here is a library to draw charts in F#. It steals ideas from this book and this R package...

Here is a link to the home page: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/FinancialFunctions/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Home

My crazy agent framework now works with RC: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/LAgent

I always forget the pattern to use to create a functioning MailboxProcessor in F#. I mean, which piece has to be async and how to structure the recursive loop. When I find myself in that kind of a situation situation, my instincts scream at me: “Wrap...

If you live in London and work with F#, you should join http://www.meetup.com/FSharpLondon/ Also, if you don’t work with F#, but you’d like too, and you live in London you should join it. Also if you don’t live in London, but you’d like to and you’d like...

Download framework here . All posts are here: Part I - Workers and ParallelWorkers Part II - Agents and control messages Part III - Default error management Part IV - Custom error management Part V - Timeout management Part VI - Hot swapping of code Part...

In case you are training to play the part of a first generation Italian immigrant in a Broadway show or if you want to understand why I never short msft stock: http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT11

I’ll be in Los Angeles next week for PDC 2009. My session is called “ Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic ” and it comes on Tuesday immediately after the first keynote. I’m planning on spending the first half of the session talking about the biggest...

Or maybe not, please do not hold me responsible if you lose money following this system. Having said that, it is my opinion that there are very few concepts that are important in investing. Three big ones are value, diversification and momentum. This...

Download framework here . All posts are here: Part I - Workers and ParallelWorkers Part II - Agents and control messages Part III - Default error management Part IV - Custom error management Part V - Timeout management Part VI - Hot swapping of code Part...

Download framework here . All posts are here: Part I - Workers and ParallelWorkers Part II - Agents and control messages Part III - Default error management Part IV - Custom error management Part V - Timeout management Part VI - Hot swapping of code Part...

Download framework here . All posts are here: Part I - Workers and ParallelWorkers Part II - Agents and control messages Part III - Default error management Part IV - Custom error management Part V - Timeout management Part VI - Hot swapping of code Part...

Download framework here . All posts are here: Part I - Workers and ParallelWorkers Part II - Agents and control messages Part III - Default error management Part IV - Custom error management Part V - Timeout management Part VI - Hot swapping of code Part...

Download framework here . All posts are here: Part I - Workers and ParallelWorkers Part II - Agents and control messages Part III - Default error management Part IV - Custom error management Part V - Timeout management Part VI - Hot swapping of code Part...

Download framework here . All posts are here: Part I - Workers and ParallelWorkers Part II - Agents and control messages Part III - Default error management Part IV - Custom error management Part V - Timeout management Part VI - Hot swapping of code Part...

Download framework here . All posts are here: Part I - Workers and ParallelWorkers Part II - Agents and control messages Part III - Default error management Part IV - Custom error management Part V - Timeout management Part VI - Hot swapping of code Part...

Download framework here . All posts are here: Part I - Workers and ParallelWorkers Part II - Agents and control messages Part III - Default error management Part IV - Custom error management Part V - Timeout management Part VI - Hot swapping of code Part...

Download framework here . All posts are here: Part I - Workers and ParallelWorkers Part II - Agents and control messages Part III - Default error management Part IV - Custom error management Part V - Timeout management Part VI - Hot swapping of code Part...

Here you go: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Luke-Hoban-Latest-version-of-F-Released-Whats-the-story-Whats-next/

Go here to download them. It is in \ParallelExtensionsExtras\CoordinationDataStructures. It has a slightly different design in that it returns Tasks. I’m trying to get Stephen to blog about it so that you can compare them.

The title says it all. If you are interested, go here .

Other posts: Part I – Writing the cache Let’s try out our little cache. First I want to write a synchronous version of it as a baseline. Private Shared Sub TestSync( ByVal sites() As String , ByVal sitesToDownload As Integer , ByVal howLong As...

Other posts: Part II - Testing the cache In the process of converting a financial VBA Excel Addin to .NET (more on that in later posts), I found myself in dire need of a HTML cache that can be called from multiple threads without blocking them...

I’ll be speaking about the future of C# and F#. Oslo brings back so many memories …   “one of the world’s most important conferences for IT developers and leaders”