I stumbled across this little gem the other day – websocketd – which turns anything that takes standard-in and standard-out into a websocket server! To build a dead simple echo server, follow these steps: follow the download instructions here (don’t forget to add it to your PATH) create a new console application in Visual Studio [...]

Hi everyone, happy new year! I was really glad to find a couple of days to work on some of my open source projects and put together a new version of DynamoDB.SQL which brings it inline with the latest version of the .Net AWSSDK amongst other things. You can download and install it from Nuget [...]

I work with Amazon S3, and indeed many of the Amazon’s cloud services, and one of the things that is often frustrating in my day-to-day workflow is the need to keep jumping out of the IDE, find the files I’m looking for in a S3 explorer, grab the key to the file and then go [...]

Just a quick note to say that slides for my F# in Social Gaming talk at the recent CodeMesh conference is now available on SlideShare and that recording of the talk will be available on InfoQ at a later date. F# in social gaming from Yan Cui

Hello, just a quick word to say that slides for my F# in the Cloud and at Scale talk at the recent F# in Finance event is now available on SlideShare and that I’ll be talking about our use of F# in building social games at CodeMesh next week. F# in the cloud from Yan [...]