Faisal Waris has published a very interesting Experience Report on using F# on Android with the Xamarin tools. It is fabulous to again see independent confirmation of the value of F# in the mobile computing space. TL;DR: F# and Xamarin triumphed. I can’t [...]

So I’m trying to fill out my understanding of basic functional programming concepts in terms of Elixir and Erlang.  One concept that I wanted to know a bit more about is how Partial Function Application and Currying work in Elixir.  Especially given that [...]

Today I released FAKE 2.12 with a lot of small bug fixes and improvements. The biggest feature is that we now use NancyFx for FAKE.Deploy. A big thanks to all of the 60 contributors. What’s new? Add getDependencies to NugetHelper #373 Add more F# friendly[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Do you use Visual F# Power Tools? Please send reviews and suggest improvements on VS gallery. F# Data 2.0.5 is released with Http fixes. Please discuss the fsharp.org starting page. J[...]

For the past few months I have been working on an Android application that collects automotive CAN bus data – ultimately for analysis with BigData technologies such as Hadoop. I have already described some aspects of this project here and here. In this po[...]

For the past few months I have been working on an Android application that collects automotive CAN bus data – ultimately for analysis with BigData technologies such as Hadoop. I have already described some aspects of this project here and here. In this po[...]

Emerging Languages Camp is an all day event held before Strange Loop. There were 11 presentations on new and unusual programming languages in varying stages of development. Production-ready languages like C#, Ruby, Clojure, and Haskell don’t just spring t[...]

This is a bugfix release, the most important fix being the fsi interactive features.

Do you need to convince your friends & family that programming can be fun? For the last Christmas, I got a puzzle as a gift. It is a number of small cubes, joined together, that can be rotated and folded to form a bigger (4x4x4) cube. We spent the last [...]