Just a quick note to mention that I’ll be speaking to the F#unctional Londoners on Thursday, 28th Jun about using .Net in the social gaming space which is usually dominated by PHP. In this session I’ll share some insight into how we at GameSys uses a polyglot stack evolving around .Net to build our games …
I came across this SO question the other day, and I really liked Daniel’s answer as it illustrates the beauty and elegance of F# and functional programming in general! Personally I love the combinators approach, and for anyone else who’s interested to see what else you can do with combinators, check out the beautifully crafted …
I have heard a few people argue that when it comes to performance critical code you should prefer arrays over other collections (such as F#’s lists) as it benefits from sequential reads (which is faster than seeks) and offers better memory locality. To test that theory somewhat, I wanted to see if there is any …
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I’m proud to announce that we have released another new slot – Wealthy Whale – to JackpotJoy Slots, it is also the first All Pays slots we have implemented on our F# slots engine! In an All Pays slot, there are no ‘pay lines’, instead, any matching symbol (or Wild symbol) that appears on adjacent …
After a long day I’m proud to say that we have release two new slots that run on our F# slots engine – BATTLESHIP Jackpot Command on Lucky Gem Casino and CELESTIAL SIMIANS on JackpotJoy Slots. BATTLESHIP Jackpot Command is a 50-line slot with progressive wins and some pretty unique features. The DEATH CHARGES …
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Problem A. Speaking in Tongues The problem is here. Problem B. Dancing with the Googlers The problem is here. Problem C. Recycled Numbers The problem is here. Enjoy!
Our brand new slots ‘Monopoly House Party’ is now live on Lucky Gem Casino! Great work by everyone involved at GameSys, the artwork is quite stunning and it’s quite easily the best looking slots game I’ve seen. You can collect houses, railroads, electric and water works during the main game and use them in the …
I found out about Google CodeJam the other day, and looking at their info page, there’s a number of interesting problems you can solve as practice for the real thing coming up, and here are my F# solutions to the qualification round questions from the 2010 event, enjoy Problem A. Store Credit The outline …
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To find the answer to this question I put together a very simple test, but before we go into it.. Disclaimer: this test and its result should be taken at face value only, it is intended to illustrate that posting messages to an agent is super lightweight, but in a real world application there will …
F# – How many messages can you post to a F# agent in one second? Read More »
One of the problems with using F#’s Discriminated Unions is that they are not extensible, in that all your union cases must be specified inside one Discriminated Union (abbreviated to DU from this point) type and you can’t inherit from an existing DU type to add additional union cases. In most cases, having to specify …
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