It often surprises me that people who spend their whole day focusing on details, software developers, so often ask question in broad and generic terms.  Here’s some that I’ve heard over the years: Why should I learn Object Oriented Programming?  (I have been writing software for a while.  Long enough to remember the days before […]

Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code.   Prologue I was at Joy of Coding earlier this year and one of the highlight for me was Crista Lopes’ keynote  Exercises in Programming Style. Crista demonstrated how a simple problem of calculating term frequency can be written in

A while back Scott Wlaschin posted a great blog post on what he called “Railway Oriented Programming.”  It’s a great treatment of a common problem in adopting functional programming; how to handle a chain of functions when one of the functions in the chain may return an error.  Of course stopping the chain when the […]

Tweet Update 24/08/2015 : some helpful people pointed out that I’ve missed a couple of other notable conferences here, including: Leetspeak (10th Oct Stockholm) Distributed Matters Berlin (19th Sep) and Barcelona (21st Nov) CodeMotion Berlin (2nd-3rd Nov), Milan (20th-21st Nov) and Madrid (27th-28th Nov) Lambda World (24th Oct Cadiz)   It’s almost that time of the year again, that

A new Try WebSharper is out adding a couple handy new features and addressing a couple annoyances, making it even more easy to publish your F# and WebSharper snippets.