In the last couple of days I started to write some posts about Currying and Partial application: Partial application in F# and C# Why do we need partial application? – Part 1 of n – Fluent interfaces and piping This time I want to show you how we can write a higher-order function which allows [...]

My last blog post was yet another introduction to Currying and Partial application. Now I want to put the focus more on the why part. Why do we want to have our functions in curryied form most of the time? This is the first part of a small blog post series and shows partial application [...]

Today I had a conversation on twitter about partial application and type inference in F#. Partial application is a very important and useful concept and there are a lot of resources out there. Here is a short list of related material: Uncovering the Unknown: Principles of Type Inference (video) Wikipedia: Currying, Partial application, Type inference [...]

Legacy code is a problem in all languages, even F#. The super awesome Ilker Cetinkaya published an excellent article about “test implants”. I really recommend to read his post before you read this one. It’s a really well written story called “The quest of the test”. I destilled his nice little story to this small [...]

Jenkins is an extendable open source continuous integration server. In this blog post I show you how you can build FAKE’s Calculator sample with Jenkins. If you are familiar with Jenkins or Hudson then this should be straight forward. Install Jenkins Go to http://jenkins-ci.org/ and download/install Jenkins. In addition install the following plugins: Jenkins GIT [...]