Functional Programming
Monads explained in C# (again)
Yet another Monad tutorial, this time for C# OOP developers
Read more...Why F# and Functional Programming Talk at .NET Development Nederland Meetup
On May 8th 2017 I gave a talk at the .NET Development Nederland group in Amsterdam. Here are the slides for the people who were there and want to revisit the covered topics.
Read more...My Functional Programming & F# Talks at Webscale Architecture Meetup
On January 10th of 2017 I gave two talks at the Webscale Architecture NL meetup group in Utrecht. Here are the slides for the people who were there and want to revisit the covered topics.
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Comparing Scala to F#
F# and Scala are quite similar languages from 10.000 feet view. Both are functional-first languages developed for the virtual machines where imperative languages dominate. C# for .NET and Java for JVM are still lingua franca, but alternatives are getting stronger.
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Building a Poker Bot: Functional Fold as Decision Tree Pattern
This is the fifth part of Building a Poker Bot series where I describe my experience developing bot software to play in online poker rooms. I’m building the bot with .
Read more...Tweaking immutable objects with C# and Fody
Immutable data structures provide a lot of benefits to programmers, especially when representing domain value objects. Immutability is an essential part of functional programming paradigm. The concept is useful in object-oriented languages too, but you have to pay some price to get this advantage.
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Building a Poker Bot with Akka.NET Actors
This post lays out the most exciting part of the bot. I'll compose the recognition, flow, decision and mouse clicking parts together into the bot application. The application is a console executable interacting with multiple windows of poker room software.
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