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Some time ago, I speculated that F# should be the lingua-franca of BI . Well, had I done a little research, I would have found out that people are already doing BI using F#, namely Microsoft. On a recent podcast of The Thirsty Developer (to be published
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This Summer, I am very excited to be doing a couple talks on F# around the midwest. On July 8th, I kick things off in Bloomington Illinois , where I will be covering the overview and the details about not only how to do useful things in F#, but why you
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It is high time that Business Intelligence get the benefits of the language "Cambrian Explosion" and agile revolution. Think about BI for a second. Most of the talk around BI is oriented around tools - a stack that ties together presentation,
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I was looking for where the § is on my keyboard, as many of the Linq to SQL samples in F# use that in front of the database context variable. Strange enough, was looking on my keyboard for it, with no luck. The key does not exist, at least on my
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Normally, I don't post here about "personal" projects, but since I needed a good reason to learn F#, and I am somewhat of a political junkie, I have launched scandalgenerator.com , a website that all the campaigns can use to streamline their
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Not content to remain silent this political season, as a service to all the campaigns, I am providing some source-code for a "scandal generator" - an automated tool the candidates can use to generate headlines and save needed campaign donation
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A couple of simple operations, count and transform sum, for your F# viewing pleasure: #light open System [<STAThread>] do let arrayOfNumbers = [1..500] let rec count list = match list with | h::tail -> (count tail) + 1 | [] -> 0 let rec transform
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I am in deep learn mode with F# - as in, going through Syme's Expert F# book and doing everything I can to understand it. As in, rather than doing my normal skimming of material, read it in detail, and "code along" with the examples. My
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On an earlier post, I wrote about how in C#, you can do everything you can do in F#. I hate to say this, but I completley missed the point. Functional languages are about a lot of different things, but one of the most interesting to me is removal of side
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