NorDevCon is a one day agile and tech conference held annually in the historic English town of Norwich, also the setting for the recent British comedy Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. Last Friday I took the short hop across the Fens to Norwich to talk about D[...]

In order to setup ci for open source targeting c# projects I looked into using travis. There is a solution on stackoverflow. The post got me started. Turns out that there are some problems with using nuget packages for mono using xbuild (Path.Combine in t[...]

During some recent meanderings through the confines of the internet, I ended up discovering the Winnow Algorithm. The simplicity of the approach intrigued me, so I thought it would be interesting to try and implement it in F# and see how well it worked. [...]

One of the more exciting new functional languages of the last couple of years is a marriage of Erlang and Ruby called Elixir.  Besides adding an arguably better syntax with which to program the Erlang VM (also known as the BEAM VM), Elixir adds meta-progr[...]

F# 3.x Query Expressions are a nice piece of syntactic sugar, but they are notably difficult to compose. This article discusses the auto-quoting mechanism of query expressions and how it can be leveraged to implement not-too-clunky composition.

Are you a VB developer curious about functional-first programming. F# is a statically typed language built into Visual Studio. It is a multi-paradigm language with both functional and object-oriented constructs. F# has powerful type inference which redu[...]

Intro Focus + context visualizations are quite useful when we want to zoom into some part of a visualization, but are unwilling to give up the “bird’s eye” view of the entire picture. In this case, we distort the part of the visual on which we want to foc[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Vote for F# direct support in Unity3d if you like this idea. CloudSharper Local alpha 0.9.6 was released. New version of F# formatting can now evaluate scripts and embed the results. [...]