This weekend I had the pleasure of sitting on the Ocean Q&A panel at Revival 2014 in Wolverhampton. I worked at Ocean in Manchester in my early 20s on titles like Jurassic Park (PC & Amiga) and Addams Family Values (SNES & Megadrive). It was fun to remini[...]

DISCLAIMER : as always, you should bench­mark against your pay­load and use case, the bench­mark num­bers I have pro­duced here is unlikely to be rep­re­sen­ta­tive of your use cases and nei­ther is any­body else’s bench­mark numbers. You can use the sim­[...]

Scala keeps surprising me. It has much good stuff that F# has. For example, I believed that statically resolved type parameters are unique to F#. Turns out this is not the case. Scala has equivalent feature called "structural types". It has nice syntax co[...]

An entity must have a unique identity, so that other objects can uniquely identify it. In an application with one object store, this is not a problem, because the identity usually takes the form of the auto generated identity value assigned to the object [...]

I started writing a post like this a long time ago, but somehow never finished it. Countless posts on Stack Overflow are vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. Along with several other users, I always raise this when it shows up – this is something that rea[...]

Whilst the official rebar documentation only covers usages on Unix, turns out it was really easy to get going on Windows too, even without resorting to installing and using cygwin. Here’s some quick steps: clone the rebar repo in the root of the repo, run[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Enjoy F# chat on StackOverflow. WebSharper UI.Next now has a shiny new website. First wave of samples for WebSharper bindings to WinJS 2.0.1. Taha Hachana shared his first WebSharper [...]

I am joining Tachyus F# team starting next week, and moving to San Mateo, CA. I am both excited and a little sad. During my time at IntelliFactory I learned pretty much all the skills I now have as a programmer. I met, worked with and learned from amaz[...]