Since I’m liking git more and more by the day, with tools such as SmartGit and GitFlow making the task of managing even a complex branching model a relatively easy task, I’ve decided to move my Simple Speed Tester project over to github! Simple Speed Tester is a very simple framework I wrote to help [...]

Found a useful little snippet that converts a C# dictionary to F#’s map which uses the built-in KeyValue active pattern:

I spent the last couple of nights and put together a small BERT serializer for .Net called Filbert.   What’s BERT? BERT (Binary ERlang Term) is a binary format based on Erlang’s binary serialization format (as used by erlang:term_to_binary/1) but supports a couple of complex types such as boolean, dictionary and time, in additional to [...]

In C#, you can define an explicit operator for your type using the explicit keyword: In F#, this will look something like this:

You can specify a function which can take in a numeric value with a generic unit of measure easily enough: Similarly, you can also specify a discriminated union whose clauses can be of a numeric value with a generic unit of measure, like this: