A Developer's journey from OO to Functional

This is more for my documentation, but it may help someone else so I'm posting it I had been developing an Umbraco 7.3.1 site locally with no issues. Then I needed to move the database to Azure (version v12). There are sources of information for doing this sort of thing, but the ones I found were out of date or overly complex. This is a straightforward way I've found that works. Open Sql Management Studio (I'm using 2014). Navigate to your Sql database that you want to copy. Right click on the da[...]

This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2015. Thanks to Sergey Tihon for organizing and letting me be a part of it this year! Some short time after implementing MembershipProvider for the first time I realized that simply relying on abstractions to make your code extendable wasn't enough. To embrace and encourage change I had to also make those abstractions as small as possible. While the class makes it possible to change implementations, its 27 abstract methods all but guarantee you'[...]

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[...]

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 [...]