In the process of creating a web service backend for a large web application for Diamler I've come across a few patterns that allow me to provide functionality without bloating my codebase. As the application is largely data driven one of my favorite pat[...]

Read the previous article: FSharpArm - part 1 As the previous article was "current-status". Progress brought new insights, and so the following corrections apply:I develop in VS2015 under Windows, so I didn’t need to install Akka.Net on the RPi; install[...]

Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code.   Prologue I was at Joy of Coding earlier this year and one of the highlight for me was Crista Lopes’ keynote  Exercises in Programming Style. Crista demonstrated how a simple problem[...]

A while back Scott Wlaschin posted a great blog post on what he called “Railway Oriented Programming.”  It’s a great treatment of a common problem in adopting functional programming; how to handle a chain of functions when one of the functions in the chai[...]

What criteria do I use I prefer for the build tool to work on both *nix and windows. I do some of the .net coding on os x. The build systems mentioned here are all related to working with .net (and all except psake work in *nix). If you are coding .net [...]

What criteria do I use I prefer for the build tool to work on both *nix and windows. I do some of the .net coding on os x. The build systems mentioned here are all related to working with .net (and all except psake work in *nix). If you are coding .net [...]

ComputationExpressionApproachForRestApi.md@import url(http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/KaTeX/0.2.0/katex.min.css);code{color:#c7254e;background-color:#f9f2f4;border-radius:4px}code,kbd{padding:2px 4px}kbd{color:#fff;background-color:#333;border-radiu[...]

A new release of Try WebSharper is out featuring some enhancements regarding snippet meta-data and embedding.

Tweet Update 24/08/2015 : some helpful people pointed out that I’ve missed a couple of other notable conferences here, including: Leetspeak (10th Oct Stockholm) Distributed Matters Berlin (19th Sep) and Barcelona (21st Nov) CodeMotion Berlin (2nd-3rd Nov)[...]

Turns out that there is a simpler way of dealing with optional values in C#. Include FSharpx.Extras to your C# project and then you can do the following: optionalValue.Match( ifSome: value => ProcessValue(value), ifNone: () => NoValueToProcess()[...]