One of the attendees of my virtual F# in Finance course, Stuart recently asked me a pretty advanced question about writing custom queries with F#, because he was interested in writing a nicer querying library for Amazon DynamoDB (his project is here). The[...]

One of the attendees of my virtual F# in Finance course, Stuart recently asked me a pretty advanced question about writing custom queries with F#, because he was interested in writing a nicer querying library for Amazon DynamoDB (his project is here). I[...]

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I am pretty excited to announce the re-branding of Minsk F# User Group. First of all we changed our logo, now it is more “Belarusish”. Also we’ve prepared a set of wallpapers for F# fans. Feel free to use them to beautify your desktops: Thanks to EPAM Sys[...]

  One year ago today, we pushed the button to enable community contributions and fully open engineering for Visual F#. The F# language has been open source for years, centered around the F# Open Edition and fsharp.org, but this marked the first time that[...]

  One year ago today, we pushed the button to enable community contributions and fully open engineering for Visual F#. The F# language has been open source for years, centered around the F# Open Edition and fsharp.org, but this marked the first time that [...]

I came across a topical .Net article by Dave M Bush published towards the tail end of 2014 entitled String and StringBuilder where he correctly asserts that .Net’s built-in string type are reference types and immutable. All good so far. The next assertio[...]

This is mainly for myself in case I forget some of the steps involved – but maybe you find this usefull to in case you want to play with IDRIS. This is how I setup a cabal sandbox, fetch the latest version and (re-)build it. update More info on github fir[...]

5 years ago today, I sent the following bug report to the Powershell team. From: Lincoln Atkinson Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:33 PM To: PowerShell Discussions Subject: Problem with get-date Hey experts, maybe you can help me with this issue. Get-Dat[...]