To try out something different, I took a shot at writing a pretty-printing module. Of all the papers I found on the subject, perhaps the most accessible is A prettier printer by Wadler. In particular the algebra of documents presented in the paper is very simple and therefore compelling. I tried to implement these combinators in a OCaml. Unfortunately for OCaml, Wadler's code heavily relies on laziness for searching the exponentially large tree of possible printouts and selecting the optimal one by limite[...]

WebSharper has seen a few more releases, the latest being 2.4.63. In a nutshell, you now can: Update HTML templates in sitelets without recompiling the solution and see immediate changes Use VS in Windows Phone 7 and Eclipse in Android templates, taking advantage of more customization opportunities and IDE services such as an integrated debugger Use HttpContext.Current.Session in sitelets and remote/RPC methods Use Visual Studio 2011 Beta, .NET 4.5, Windows 8, F# 3.0, even if you do not have the previou[...]

A few days ago, I blogged about WebSharper 2.4 Q2 Beta, announcing a handful of important changes to WebSharper. Today, we are happy to announce the general availability of WebSharper 2.4 Q2, available from the WebSharper downloads page.

We recently rolled out a few enhancements on FPish. The main highlights are blog comments and tweet functionality.

We have been working hard to bring you WebSharper 2.4 Q2 - and today we are happy to announce the availability of the the first beta (2.4.46)... [more]