There’s been a fair bit of activity lately from a project called ScriptCS, it allows you to put together a project using C# as a lightweight scripting language, forgoing the use of Visual Studio which can sometimes be too bloated and bulky. It also a[...]

This year before NDC, I wrote an article for the conference edition of "The Developer" magazine. Follow that link to find the article in all its illustrated glory (along with many other fine articles, of course) – or read on for just the text. Back w[...]

Yesterday’s New York Times has a good article on Google’s analysis of what works and what does not work when interviewing candidates for technical jobs. This paragraph closely matches my experience: Behavioral interviewing also works — where you’re not gi[...]

 FunScript is “a lightweight F# library that lets you rapidly develop single-page web and mobile applications”. This now has a nice new home page: http://funscript.info/  It is interesting because: It compiles F# to JavaScript (see also WebSharper) It le[...]

In the previous post, we derived a class from BubbleChart and this got us started on actually visualizing some meaningful data using bubbles. There are a couple of things to iron out before a visual can appear. Color Schemes I am using Cynthia Brewer colo[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Is anybody else interested in getting F# a snazzy logo? Share your thoughts! F# example usage of TopShelf. Some Vagrant provisioning scripts for hosting a WebSharper site on Ubuntu se[...]

Jessica Kerr recently wrote on the very interesting topic: what the best way to get rid of exceptions and of the mess they introduce into the program flow.Simply put, she's gently introduced the Either monad in Scala language.Although I find Scala to be a[...]