I'm very pleased to be able to say that I will be giving a talk on Functional Programming for the Web at both cf.Objective() in May 2014 and Scotch on the Rocks in June 2014! For a little background on the talk, you can read my earlier blog post about Fun[...]

The "gold" release of the Clojure contrib library that wraps JDBC is now available on Maven Central. This release has been in the works for most of this year, as it introduces large changes from the previous "gold" release (0.2.3) that aim to make the lib[...]

A roundup of F# content from this past week: News F# jumped to 20th place of TIOBE index. Doing F# in free time? Start a new open source project from FSharp.ProjectScaffold template! New (version 4.0.4) fszmq is released with shiny new website (fszmq has [...]

The SqlProvider now supports experimental SQLite access. You can achieve this by supplying the SQL provider some additional static parameters type sql = SqlDataProvider< @"Data Source=F:\sqlite\northwindEF.db;Version=3",Common.DatabaseProviderTypes.SQLITE[...]

Clojure's low-level JDBC wrapper inches closer to a gold 0.3.0 release with the first release candidate. Read more on clojure.java.jdbc's Github repo. The changes in this release are: Deprecate db-transaction (new in 0.3.0) in favor of with-db-transactio[...]

I’m building a small compiler for a toy language which emits .NET executables, implemented in F#. Demo compilers are a dime a dozen, but there are a few things which make this project distinct: No lexer or parser generators are used. The entire compiler [...]

 The F# community and the Visual F# team have been working together to bring new community-authored templates for Visual F# into the Visual Studio Gallery. One step in this has been to create a central GitHub repository for F# community templates, where y[...]

The cool thing about the Raspberry Pi is that it is really really cheap and really really popular. Until recently the worst thing about the Raspberry Pi has been the lack of hardfp version of Mono, leaving us .NET developers … Continue reading →

There is a perfectly good solution for installing services:<blockquote class="tr_bq"> sc create</blockquote> No need to inherit from the install util specific classes in your .net code. The problem with installutil is that it’s not appropriate when automa[...]