F# enthusiasts might be interested in this post on the .NET blog by program manager Anthony D. Green. Mads and Dustin showed off these stylish little numbers at BUILD and ever since we've been getting pinged by community members wanting to know where [...]

F# enthusiasts might be interested in this post on the .NET blog by program manager Anthony D. Green. Mads and Dustin showed off these stylish little numbers at BUILD and ever since we’ve been getting pinged by community members wanting to know where they[...]

One thing I have noticed about myself over the years; I’m not as good as I would care to be at focusing on details. In fact, sometimes I’m awful at paying attention to the details. As a software developer, of course, details are extremely important. I’ve [...]

This release updates CloudSharper to use WebSharper 3.1.

Tweet Having been primarily involved with .Net languages in my career so far, homoiconicity was a new idea to me when I first encountered it in Clojure (and also later in Elixir). If you look it up on wikipedia, you’ll find the usual wordy definition that[...]

I got some great feedback on my last blog post about using F#’s async feature to simplify state. One of the more interesting requests was from @FreeQaz who tweeted me: @neildanson I really enjoyed your article at http://t.co/tFWHZXU1DD about F# … Continue[...]

The near-complete obviation of nulls is perhaps the most frequently- (and hilariously-) cited benefit of working in F#, as compared to C#. Nulls certainly still exist in F#, but as a practical matter it really is quite rare that they need to be considered[...]

Tweet I’ve spent time with Rust at various points in the past, and being a language in development it was no surprise that every time I looked there were breaking changes and even the documentations look very different at every turn! Fast forward to May 2[...]

The near-complete obviation of nulls is perhaps the most frequently- (and hilariously-) cited benefit of working in F#, as compared to C#. Nulls certainly still exist in F#, but as a practical matter it really is quite rare that they need to be consider[...]

The Problem “Motif finding is a problem of finding common substrings of specified length in a set of strings. In bioinformatics, this is useful for finding transcription binding sites” (recap here). The problem is succinctly stated on Rosalind. Given a se[...]