{"id":50,"date":"2008-09-11T21:01:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T20:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ken.friislarsen.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/i-am-going-to-jaoo-2008-as-a-f-expert\/"},"modified":"2016-03-31T18:54:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:54:52","slug":"i-am-going-to-jaoo-2008-as-a-f-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ken.friislarsen.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/i-am-going-to-jaoo-2008-as-a-f-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Going to JAOO 2008 As A F# Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Denmark have invited me to participate in <a href=\"http:\/\/jaoo.dk\">JAOO 2008<\/a>. If I in return spend some time in the Microsoft stand demoing <a href=\"http:\/\/fsharp.org\/\">F#<\/a> and answering questions about F# and functional programming in general.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mesmann\">Martin Esmann<\/a> (Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist) approached me, I told him that I&#8217;d be happy to show up, but I&#8217;m not using F# from within Visual Studio. In fact, I&#8217;m usually not even using Microsoft&#8217;s .NET implementation. I&#8217;m a happy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mono-project.com\">Mono<\/a> user. To Martin&#8217;s credit his initial reaction was that it would be cool that I demoed F# using Linux and Mono in the Microsoft stand.<\/p>\n<p>However, after talking it over with his colleges, Martin got back to me and told me that they thought that using Linux and Mono to demo F# would send to mixed a message. I agree with that. So unfortunately I won&#8217;t be demoing Mono in a Microsoft stand this time. But I&#8217;ll of course bring my own laptop, and might show F# on Mono and Linux if there are questions about portability. Maybe I should contact the Mono guys and ask for a T-shirt, so that I silently can invite questions about Mono \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Time to practice some F# demos.\u00a0 Any suggestions for what would be effective? I&#8217;m planning to show of the brand new Units of Measure and also sequence comprehensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Denmark have invited me to participate in JAOO 2008. If I in return spend some time in the Microsoft stand demoing F# and answering questions about F# and functional programming in general. When Martin Esmann (Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist) approached me, I told him that I&#8217;d be happy to show up, but I&#8217;m not <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/ken.friislarsen.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/i-am-going-to-jaoo-2008-as-a-f-expert\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","category-fsharp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ken.friislarsen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ken.friislarsen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ken.friislarsen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ken.friislarsen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ken.friislarsen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ken.friislarsen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"http:\/\/ken.friislarsen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ken.friislarsen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ken.friislarsen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ken.friislarsen.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}