Over the past several month I’ve been prototyping various aspects of  an IoT platform – or more specifically, exploring the concerns …Continue reading →

Over the past several month I’ve been prototyping various aspects of  an IoT platform – or more specifically, exploring the concerns …Continue reading →

In Code First Entity Framework models, you can define the length of a string field with StringLengthAttribute, but you have to write code in OnModelCreating to indicate a CHAR/NCHAR fixed length field: public class MyEntity { [Key] public int Id { get;[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, Note that F# Weekly goes to summer holidays under the gentle Spanish sun. The next edition of F# Weekly will be published on the first of September. A roundup of F# content from this past week: News .NET Team released fixes for RyuJI[...]

In part one of this series we walked through modeling the domain of our card game. In this post we'll use that domain as a guide to help us create a deck, shuffle the deck, and deal cards from the deck. Creating the deck There may be more elegant way[...]

So recently I’ve been working on automating some interactions with a website.  Elixir’s Hound library is a great help, of course.  But I also ran across an interesting and unexpected benefit to pattern matching that greatly simplified some code. I was try[...]

FunSharp is a new cross-platform open source graphics library, based on Small Basic’s library, with a typed API crafted for the sharp languages, F# and C#. Drawing graphics is quick and easy:GraphicsWindow.FillEllipse(10,10,300,300) And when you ask FunSh[...]

We can only speculate as to the future of delivering content for installation purposes in a .net setting. However, we have some new information from nuget.org. The deprecation of content files and powershell in project.json makes sense. If we speculate a[...]

Tweet So OSCON came and went, and whilst I haven’t seen the recording for any of the sessions, the keynotes (and a bunch of interviews) are available on YouTube. Unlike most conferences, the OSCON keynotes are really short (average 10–15 mins each) and ha[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Nominate your F# community heroes for 2015. Visual F# Power Tools: community-led tooling for F# in Visual Studio Vote for Lenses an F# first class language construct. Atom-fsharp: New[...]