Thanks to the fine folks at Detroit Labs we’ve been able to do a pivot on GLFPC 2013 Announcing the Great Lakes Functional Programming Unconference! Are you sad that Great Lakes Functional didn’t get off the ground this year? We are too. Super sad. It’s ok though, you can stop being sad now. Why? Well, […]

I’m slowly working on new content. I hadn’t realized how out of practice I was at writing. One must certainly continue the practice in order to write efficiently. More to come; I have several posts in progress now.

It is possible to declare a list or an array without the separating semicolons by declaring each element on a separate line.  Like this: Note: for reasons I confess are unclear to me, the first member of the list/array must be on the next line from the opening symbol of the collection. Well, to be […]

I finally finished manually migrating all my blog posts back to WordPress from Octopress for pretty much the same reasons described in this excellent post. I don’t dislike static site generators, but they take quite a bit of time to configure, set up, etc., especially oft-required upgrades. I just want to get back to writing. […]

I do love the fact that F# (and functional programming in general) gives a developer the tools to make it easy to build simple code. I was hacking together a function to convert a DateTime to a Unix Time Stamp (for using with the Meetup Restful API).  This was my initial pass at it: (BTW […]