This post is December 20th' part of the English F# Advent #fsAdvent series; make sure to also check out the Japanese series, which also packs the awesome! As I was going around Paris the other day, I ended up in the Concorde metro station. Instead of the standard issue white tiles, this station is decorated with the French constitution, rendered as a mosaic of letters. [Source: Wikipedia] My mind started wandering, and by some weird association, it reminded me of Calligrammes, a collection of poems [...]

The recording of my Neo4j talk at CodeMesh 2014 is now available.   Modelling game economy with Neo4j from Yan Cui

So this is my Christmas special. I’ve been asked on numerous times to write about the F# addin for Xamarin studio which is in the fsharpbinding repo, this repo is shared with the emacs support and also the Sublime Text support. So in this edition we will be taking a deep dive into the terrifying deep depths of the F# compiler and F# addin development…

Some time ago, Microsoft announced Orleans, an implementation of the actor model in .Net which is designed for the cloud environment where instances are ephemeral. We’re currently working on a number of projects in Erlang and have run into some assumptions in distributed Erlang which doesn’t hold true in a cloud-hosted environment where nodes are [...]