In the previous post “ServiceStack: New API – F# Sample (Web Service out of a web server)” we implemented a self-hosted service with ServiceStack. That service has multiple out-of-the-box endpoints, including a REST one. The next interesting question is “How to call this service?”(preferably in a strongly-typed way). The answer is simple, ServiceStack team have [...]

Reblogged from FourEightThree: After reading Sergey Tihon's post about IKVM and the stanford parser. I thought I'd try and create a IKVM type provider. The first version can be found on my GitHub account here. The following code shows a simple sample on how to use the type provider. The above is the same sample [...]

Two weeks ago in F# Weekle #6 2013 I mentioned Don Syme’s “F# + ServiceStack – F# Web Services on any platform in and out of a web server” post. There were two samples of  using ServiceStack from F#. One of these examples is given on ServiceStack wiki page in Self Hosting section. It is also [...]

Image blurring is a king of popular task during presentation preparation. For example, if you want show something but hide sensitive information. Of course you can buy Photoshop but it is too expensive for such a simple task. Also you can download Paint.NET, but this is not an option for F# geek – it is too easy=). It [...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, The greatest event of this week and maybe of the year is 2013 MVP Global Summit. But while our MVPs make history, the new portion of news from this past week is waiting for you =). News Steffen Forkmann presented experimental F# 4.0 installer. Interesting white paper from MS Research about [...]