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[...]

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.   Day 22’s challenge essentially a more difficult version of Day 21, so we can roughly follo[...]

In this post, I will show an example of where using unit testing as a design methodology does not work, and how to produce a design for correct code anyway. There is no single design methodology which works for all problems, so it’s useful to have a varie[...]

So once again the time arrives when Santa is looking for Rudolph and I am writing a blog post for the yearly F# advent As always I hope I can provide you some insight and fun – practicability is not the main focus (as you surely find out soon). the task a[...]