The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,500 times in 2015. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 tr[...]

Tweet As 2016 dawns upon us, here’s a quick look  back at what I got up to in 2015.   It’s been a big year on a personal front — after an amazing journey with Gamesys, I started working at JUST EAT at the start of November. In the meantime, I also made a [...]

Every blog post I’ve read about using F# with SQL CLR involves turning off SQL CLR security for the entire database like so: alter database mydatabase set trustworthy on This is because there is not currently a “safe” FSharp.Core, and so even when buildin[...]

Every blog post I’ve read about using F# with SQL CLR involves turning off SQL CLR security for the entire database like so: alter database mydatabase set trustworthy on This is because there is not currently a “safe” FSharp.Core, and so even when buildin[...]

This holiday season my brief indulgence was solving the Advent of Code puzzles. One was about the look-and-say sequence. It starts with “1” and grows as follows: 1 is read off as “one 1” or 11. 11 is read off as “two 1s” or 21. 21 is read off as “one 2, t[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News The F# Software Foundation is now officially a public charity in the United States! Expert F# 4 is out! The week in .NET – 12/22/2015 Exceptions and Fault tolerance & Cloud Gotchas wi[...]

Just over a year ago, last year in December we released WebSharper 3 on Apache, putting it into the hands of every F# web developer. One thing we learned from WebSharper 2 is that more frequent releases are better and this year kept the whole team busy wi[...]

Tweet The source code for this post is available here and you can click here to see my solutions for the other Advent of Code challenges. Description for today’s challenge is here.   It’s the last day of the advent calendar, and today’s challenge appears [...]

Tweet The source code for this post (both Part 1 and Part 2) is available here and you can click here to see my solutions for the other Advent of Code challenges. Description for today’s challenge is here.   The description for the challenge is quite long[...]

Tweet The source code for this post (both Part 1 and Part 2) is available here and you can click here to see my solutions for the other Advent of Code challenges. Description for today’s challenge is here.   First, let’s define the 6 instructions on the c[...]