Previously, when covering some of the additions to the .NET 4.0 Framework such as optional and named parameters , some of the other additions have caught my eye from the perspective of functional programming.  Unlike .NET 3.5, this release is not as targeted towards functional programming as it...

Last week, I provided a basic wrap up of my functional programming talk at the Continuous Improvement in Software Development conference (KaizenConf) in Austin. Little did I realize that I was indeed being filmed while I talked by Mark Leon Watson . So, without further ado, enjoy the first 20 minutes...

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend and give a workshop at the Continuous Improvement in Software Development, or KaizenConf.  I'm grateful to Scott Bellware and Dave Laribee for organizing this event.  The tone and subject matter at this conference was both refreshing and...

Next week at the "Continuous Improvement in Software Development Conference" (KaizenConf), I will be giving a session called "Functional Programming - Is it a game changer?".  In this discussion, I'll cover the basics of functional programming, moving from an imperative style...

Update: Removed Internal Constructor constraint on AsyncBuilder. As I covered earlier in my post Functional .NET - LINQ or Language Integrated Monads , I talked about using asynchronous computation expressions (monads) from C# 3.0.  Brian McNamara , of the F# team, posted back in May about using...

As part of my talk at the Richmond Code Camp earlier in October, I had the opportunity to talk about how to implement functional aspects in C# 3.0.  This talk revolved around such concepts as from mutable to immutable, from inheritance to functional composition, and the mind shift that is required...

Thanks to everyone who attended my session "Functional C# or how I lost the foreach and learned to love LINQ".  This is still an ongoing passion of mine that I hope to expand upon in the upcoming posts.  Some of these topics include favoring functional composition over inheritance...

A couple of days ago, I had the pleasure of recording Episode 18 of Herding Code on Functional Programming and F#.   The topic on their minds was around functional programming, and more in particular with some of the things I've been doing around the .NET space both C# and F#.  Some of...

In the past, I've covered quite a bit of functional programming in C# 3.0 and how you can implement some of the basic constructs using the language.  In preparation for the Richmond Code Camp coming up on October 4th, for which I'm planning to present "Functional C# -or- How I lost...

Lately, I've been heads down on a lot of concurrency items which will hopefully come out soon. In the mean time, I want to get back to the basics one last time with recursion. As I posted earlier, I've been talking about recursion in the past couple of posts, and this one will be one last on...