Pre-release NuGet WebSharper 2.5.2-alpha NuGet package is available and can already be used to build AppHarbor-ready sites. Clone the sample application websharper-bootstrap-site to build your own cloud-based WebSharper site.

Soon-to-be released WebSharper includes Direct API that will greatly simplifies building tools that compile F# code to JavaScript via WebSharper. It has can work in FSI. We are also finishing some testing on a TypeScript definition file cross-compiler that emits WebSharper FFI definitions based on TypeScript ".d.ts" files, allowing to reuse some work the TypeScript community has done in defining types for JavaScript libraries.

We are happy to announce that we offering free WebSharper developer licenses to all language and web MVPs... [more]

A while ago I found myself in the unfortunate situation of having a degraded RAID5 array failing to boot after a blackout. So I hooked a monitor to it to see what was going on and found that it got stuck at boot time with identifying one of the disks. After a long timeout, it finally booted into Ubuntu from the attached Flash drive where it reported the degraded RAID array and dropped back to diagnostic mode. [...]

The jQuery Mobile sample on the WebSharper site has been out for quite some time now, but it fails to mention an important detail on how to run it standalone. Indeed, copying it straight into a new WebSharper ASP.NET project produces an empty page (which is not empty, only jQuery Mobile fails to kick in to decorate it into a full application), which can be a discouraging start for anyone looking into using jQuery Mobile for building mobile applications with F# and WebSharper. [...]