Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code. If you enjoy read­ing these exer­cises then please buy Crista’s book to sup­port her work. Fol­low­ing on from the last post, we will look at the Pipeline style today.   Style 5 – Pipeline Although Crista has called this the

Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code. If you enjoy read­ing these exer­cises then please buy Crista’s book to sup­port her work. Fol­low­ing on from the last post, we will look at the Cookbook style today.   Style 4 – Cookbook Although Crista has called this the

Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code. If you enjoy read­ing these exer­cises then please buy Crista’s book to sup­port her work. Fol­low­ing on from the last post, we will look at the Monolith style today.   Style 3 – Monolith As the name suggests, this style

There are three rules applicable to all testing environments.  I’ve articulated one of the rules before but now I’ll add two more. Rule 1 – Dead Simple Tests must be dead simple to run.  It doesn’t matter what you’re testing.  It doesn’t matter if you’ve got 100% code coverage. It doesn’t matter if you’ve tested […]

The core of many web sites and web APIs is very simple. Given an HTTP request, produce a HTTP response. In F#, we can represent this as a function with type Request -> Response. To make our server scalable, we should make the function asynchronous to avoid unnecessary blocking of threads. In F#, this can be captured as Request -> Async<Response>. Sounds pretty simple, right? So why are there so many evil frameworks that make simple web programming difficult? Fortunately, there is a nice F# library called [...]