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I just read that earlier today, Benoît Mandelbrot passed away . Mandelbrot’s most famous discovery, the Mandelbrot fractal , played an important early role in my interest in both programming and mathematics, and I’ve revisited Mandelbrot fractals many times as programming samples for...

I have a few F# demos which use the Twitter APIs as simple examples of accessing online data interactively and working with it in F#.    Recently, Twitter moved to require OAuth for accessing Twitter APIs on behalf of a user.  Below is the F# code I wrote to integrate OAuth, which...

Last Thursday I gave an F# talk at TechEd New Orleans titled "F# in Visual Studio 2010". The talk aimed to highlight a few ideas: F# enables exciting new developer scenarios in Visual Studio (explorative bottom-up programming in the F# Interactive) F# can leverage many/most of the powerful developer...

This year’s ICFP Programming Contest starts today. We’ve got a team participating, any other F# teams out there? Last year, I posted an F# implementation of the 2006 ICFP contest problem , which was an amazing and complex set of puzzles inside a custom virtual machine. Here’s a Silverlight version...

Over the last couple years, there has been an explosion of interest in Silverlight. As a .NET-based runtime, it is possible to compile Silverlight applications with any .NET language, and we’ve seen a lot of F# developers using F# in Silverlight. However, until recently this involved building an application...

Windows Azure was announced yesterday, and along with it, the first CTP of the SDK and Visual Studio tools . If you haven’t yet tried it, go take a look . On top of serving as a hosting service for web applications, Azure also provides a really simple way to do distributed compute and storage in the...

A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to do a really fun presentation on F# at the .NET Meetup in New York. At the end, I got a great question, which I talked about a little at the presentation, but thought I’d talk about further in a blog post. The following isn’t exactly how the conversation...

We released the F# CTP a few weeks ago, and have been receiving tons of great feedback from F# developers since. Here are some of the common issues which we've been asked about. We'll continue to add on to this list as any new issues are raised. Please continue to send any feedback, suggestions or comments...

This years' installment of the ICFP Programming Contest is coming up this weekend. For those who haven't had the chance to try out this programming contest before, I definitely recommend it. I've done the contest 3 of the last 5 years, and each time has been an amazing experience. This year, we've got...

Last week I was down in Orlando for the 2008 US TechEd Developer conference. It was a great conference. This year TechEd was split into two seperate conferences, one for the Developer audience (last week) and another for the IT audience (this week). The result was more of a developer focus for last week...

I recall my sense of awe when I first wrote a simple compression application using Huffman Coding a few years ago for a school assignment. Compression is one of those things that just kind of feels like magic - you get to take something, and make it smaller without losing any information! It's done so...

I've had the opportunity to do a lot of F# presentations recently, which has been really great. Over the last few months, I've done presentations at the Financial Services Developer Conference in New York, at the Lang.NET conference in Redmond, and at a few internal "brown bag"s for teams in Microsoft...

A few weeks back, Soma blogged about an increased investment by the Microsoft Developer Division in the F# language . Part of this increased investment has been the creation of a small team in Redmond to work with F#'s creator Don Syme to bring F# into the set of first class languages supported on .NET...