Archive for the ‘F#’ Category.

Book Review-Expert F#

Expert F# is written by Don Syme, Adam Granicz, and Antonio Cisternino. That book is a definite source to learn and to expertise F#. Although I have read most of the draft chapters before, the final book has a lot more and valuable information for every type of developer. It really helped me to delve […]

Distributed Functional Programming with F# MPI Tools for .NET

Introduction
For many years, parallel computing is an important area for research in high performance computing. Super computers dominated the industry all the time. However with the cost of obtaining a fast computer and a fast network, cluster computing considered as a good alternative. High Performance Computing market grew rapidly, mainly because of the clusters intensified. […]

Power of Functional Programming, its Features and its Future

Power of Functional Programming

Functional programming is one the oldest of major programming paradigms. Functional languages have been with us for a while. Languages like Lisp, Scheme, ML, OCaml, Haskell, Erlang and F# have well built compilers and tools and large user and development communities. However, the early success of the imperative programming languages made the […]

Automatic iTunes Folder Playlist in Javascript and F#

The other day, I was struggling with my playlist on itunes. As you may know iTunes doesn’t have the notion of the folder structure of your mp3s. So if you do organise your music in folders you won’t have them in iTunes. I decided to write a script using the iTunes COM SDK for doing […]

Happy New Year

Happy new year to everyone! 2007 has been a great year for me. 2008 didn’t start bad either, I hope to start a new project in a week or so which I’m really excited about it.
I wish you a great new year with lots of fun and happiness. I hope a lot more positive […]

F# Productization and Visual Studio 2008

It has been a long time since I haven’t blogged. Lots of things have happened on my side and on the development world. After finishing the internship at Microsoft Research Cambridge and submitting my thesis, I started to work at European Product Development Center in Dublin. I am very excited to work at Microsoft again. […]

Book Review-Foundations of F#

“Foundations of F#” is written by Robert Pickering who is a programmer and author living and working in Paris, France as he says. I think his enthusiasm in F# and .NET Framework made him to write this book. I really enjoyed reading his book and learned some new tricks in F# as well.

Review

“Foundations of […]