Lately I’ve been taking a look at how you might write web apps with F# using various existing frameworks. Often these frameworks don’t quite work the way you want them to and have small but annoying nuances when using them from F#. These projects are: PicoMvc – a minimalist MVC like framework. The basic aim of PicoMvc is to make it really easy to map an incoming URL to an F# controller function and then choose a view engine to render the result of this function. (github/nuget) Log4f – an F# wrapper for [...]

I’m off to Seattle for the MVP summit very soon. I’ve arranged to meet with fellow F# fan’s Cameron Frederick and Richard Minerich at the Tap House Bar in Belleveue at 3:30pm on Sunday. Happy hour start at 3:30pm, so it should  be lots of fun. The address of the bar is 550 106th Avenue NE, Bellevue, which is near the hotels for the Summit. So come and join the F#UN!

Recently I’ve doing a little work with Windows Phone 7. One aspect that interests me a lot is the integration of the Accelerometer. An accelerometer is a instrument that allows you to measure the forces acting on the telephone, including the force of gravity. This information will allow you to know what the orientation of the phone is and if the is moving or not. However there are a few challenges in interpreting is information. Firstly, the telephone’s accelerometer, when activated, will generate 50 event[...]

So, the good folks at Skills Matter and I have been working hard to bring you the next edition of “Functional Programming eXchange” the program is just about in place now. The current program can be found here and we expect to be adding more names and some more details over the next weeks or so. Book now, or before December 31st and you can still get to see it all for the bargain price of £75. I’m very excited about this year’s program and I’m very much looking forward to meeting all of the speakers. When[...]

I’ve been doing a bit of work with Solver Foundation lately and as I got to know the package it suddenly occurred to me Solver Foundation could be easily used to solve Sudoku puzzles. While I knew that solving Sudoku in F# wasn’t particularly an original idea, Jon Harrop has a custom Sudoku solver in F# that dates back to 2007, but I thought using Solver Foundation might be an interesting approach. I was on the train at the time so I fired up VS and pretty quickly had a working solution. A little googling [...]