The core of many web sites and web APIs is very simple. Given an HTTP request, produce a HTTP response. In F#, we can represent this as a function with type Request -> Response. To make our server scalable, we should make the function asynchronous to avo[...]

The core of many web sites and web APIs is very simple. Given an HTTP request, produce a HTTP response. In F#, we can represent this as a function with type Request -> Response. To make our server scalable, we should make the function asynchronous to av[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News F#’s ability to make Life Easier For Programmers is key to its popularity within industry. F* (FStar) reworked and released as v0.9.0. Community developed F# client for Event Store is[...]

The day after Music City Code Rachel Reese, Paulmichael Blasucci, Luke Sandell, Bryan Hunter, Calvin Bottoms, and I met up for an F# Community Code event at the Firefly Logic headquarters. My goal was to make writing F# applications without Visual Studio[...]

I recently became aware of Codility and it’s easy programming exercises. Now I had fun with a few of them and they all shared a common trait: there was no programming skill involved if you knew the right math (usually undergraduate stuff every CS student [...]

Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code. If you enjoy reading these exercises then please buy Crista’s book to support her work. Following on from the last post, we will look at the Go Forth style today.   Style 2 – Go Forth[...]

Recording of a talk I gave at the Knoxville Coding Dojo recorded by @KnoxDevs

Most programming languages were designed before the age of web. This matters because the web changes many assumptions that typed functional language designers tak for granted. For example, programs do not run in a closed world, but must instead interact w[...]

Most programming languages were designed before the age of web. This matters because the web changes many assumptions that typed functional language designers tak for granted. For example, programs do not run in a closed world, but must instead interact[...]

I love GPU programming for precisely this: it forces and enables you to think about a solution in a non-linear fashion in more than one sense of the word. The Problem Given a set , output a set In other words, pretend our array is cyclical, and we want al[...]