A couple of days ago, I stumbled across the Wonderland Clojure Katas, by @gigasquid. It's a wonderful project, with 7 independent coding exercises, inspired by Lewis Carrol's "Alice in Wonderland". I love that type of stuff, and saw that @byronsamaripa had already made a Scala port, so I figured, why not port it to F#? As it happens, I had to travel to Seattle this week; this gave me enough idle airplane time to put together a first version here. I also had a chance to chat with  @tomaspetricek and @reed[...]

Writing something in C# and then rewriting it in F#, almost nobody does that. I did.I used to write games in Silverlight. I didn't have any revenu, but I discovered that such projects are fun to do, and that you can pickup a lot of experience with all sorts of techniques, in a short time. Experience that your real day job may not provide. At some moment I quit Silverlight games. But I still appreciated the experience you can get from such projects.To learn HTML5, I started a new game i [...]

While reviewing the bugs that I've written in F# over the course of my most recent project I've found that the only recurring bug I had was passing arguments of the same type in the wrong order. Basic Example Here's a contrived and simple example of what I mean. let assignUserToCustomer userId customerId = use command = new DbCommand() command.Execute(userId, customerId) Some() assignUserToCustomer customerId userId In this case userId and customerId are both ints so the fact that I'v[...]

I’ll be speaking about compilers, testing, and machine learning at a conference near you! Abstracts for all of these sessions are on my Presentations page. Programs that Write Programs: How Compilers Work Dog Food Conference and CodeMash What Testing Can Never Do and How to Do It Anyway Dog Food Conference Machine Learning with Azure ML CloudDevelop Share This [...]

The day after Music City Code Rachel Reese, Paulmichael Blasucci, Luke Sandell, Bryan Hunter, Calvin Bottoms, and I met up for an F# Community Code event at the Firefly Logic headquarters. My goal was to make writing F# applications without Visual Studio easier. At the time my thought was to introduce a new yaml based project type but as it was pointed out on Twitter, that wouldn't really have much adoption as it would break compatibility with Redmond. I told Bryan about my idea and he came up with the [...]