Reblogged from Steve Bennett blogs: Git is the source code version control system that is rapidly becoming the standard for open source projects. It has a powerful distributed model which allows advanced users to do tricky things with branches, and rewriting history. What a pity that it’s so hard to learn, has such an unpleasant [...]

“Friends don’t let friends use null.“ Don Syme Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: Blogs & Tutorials Tomas Petricek blogged how to “Learn F# at TechMesh and SkillsMetter“ Sergey Tihon released the first publication of  F# Weekly =) Zach Bray wrote second part of “Workaround for the boxing DateTime [...]

A brief summary of what happened in the blogs last week: Released new F# Online Tutorial F# 3.0 Rich Functional Programming Talk Mono 3.0 is out! .NET Rocks – Don Syme and Keith Battocchi Bring F# Everywhere Updated F# Language Specification for F# 3.0 Now Available F# Compiler (open source edition) The future of .NET [...]

‘Type Providers’ is an extremely cool F# feature that was introduced with F 3.0 and shipped with VS 2012 and .NET 4.5. You can find Type providers’ explanation  here and details about OData type provider here. It maybe not a news, but OData Type Provider works pretty well with SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 has a OData [...]

The good news for all F#/SharePoint lovers! As I learned today, 64 bit version of fsi already available as a part of F# 3.0. It is FsiAnyCPU.exe (at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\F#\3.0\Framework\v4.0). These mean that now we should be able to connect to the SharePoint directly from fsi. It’s really cool !!! As I see, into vs2012 [...]