Strangelights

I think Tallow is a cool tool it can save you a lot of typing when creating a wix installation. I recently used it to create a couple of installations for a project I’m not. It was then I noticed it does have one downside: it does not add a Guid attribute to any of the Component tags it generates.

People have been known to ask me, what makes F# better than C#? This is a since what people think is good or bad about a programming languages just comes down to taste. However Alejandro Serrano blog post about how an F# typeof operator can be defined got me thinking about things you can do in F# that you can in C#. In it he describes how you can define a typeof operator for F#, this is something you can not do it C# the type of function is build in to the compiler and can not be defined as a method.

I came across this article via Slashdot, which seems to be an abridge of an article that I’d already seen via lambda the ultimate.

The idea of extensible programming languages is interesting one but not a particularly a new one and nor do I think xml is the right tool for solving these problems.

Don Syme recently made this post about adding IntelliSense to the visual studio intergration of F#. Although I do missing the <ctrl>-<space>, there are some nice features to the current version. In fact the back ground error checking is better that C# in both visual studio 2003 and 2005. The F# intergration will warn you if you are using an type that does not exists, C# will not do this.

This can be seen in the two images below, first the F#:

Don Syme, the creater of F#, has started a web log, it's part of the msdn blogs site http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme. This is going to be one to watch if you any interest in F#.

I’ve create this demonstration of how to implement active server pages in F#. Hope you like it.

The rest of the site should  be getting an overhall soon.

The Copenhagen Post is a news paper for English speakers living in Denmark. I tend to read it cover to cover because it’s very short and it’s weekly. It also gives me feeling of some local savvy. I spotted this interesting offer in the small ads sections.

 I’ve recently moved into a new apartment in Copenhagen and it has no washing machine. This is why I was very pleased to find “The Laundromat Café”, a bar with a small laundry at the back. I thought this was a really neat idea, certainly makes waiting of you’re clothes to dry a lot more pleasant. If you’re in the Copenhagen area you should check it out, it’s on Elemgate 15, Norrebro.