I don’t have the privilege of working on F# as my regular day job so I’ve been trying to find ways to employ F# for practical tasks. One way in which I’ve been trying to keep my F# skills sharp is by addressing the limitations of our build process with F# shell scripting.  Of course [...]

The beginning of a new year may be a good time for writing one lightweight blog post - this article shows two hidden features of F# IntelliSense in Visual Studio and also talks about writing plugins using the F# open-source release.

After reading this old post by Don Syme, I really liked the idea of wrapping the result of any computation into an option type to signify success and failure cases and stop subsequent computations on the first failure. It’s neat but I wanted to tweak a couple of things to make it more useful: exceptional [...]