Good news for Twitter and no so good for developers: Today(2013-06-11), we(Twitter) are retiring API v1 and fully transitioning to API v1.1. What does it all mean? This means that all old services are no longer available. Twitter switched to new ones with[...]

I spent the last couple of nights putting together a simple Markdown to PDF formatter using Tomas Petricek’s FSharp.Formatting project and the PdfSharp-MigraDoc library. To use this library, you can either grab the source from the GitHub repository or get[...]

Regular readers of my blog know that from time to time I post messages about jobs related to F# for the benefit of the F# community. After my last post the lovely people at 15below asked me to mention these positions too :)  They use F# a lot. http://www.[...]

Regular readers of my blog know that from time to time I post messages about jobs related to F# for the benefit of the F# community. I got this message today: A very large F# project at a Bank in London and are looking for a Snr C# / F# developer (up to £[...]

  This post is a very interesting study of the differences between “functional-first” (F#) and “object-first” (C#) design for medium-sized software, by comparing software metrics for a number of C# and F# projects. Here are the conclusions, #3 and #4 are [...]

Scott Wlaschin has just posted a really interesting series on Dependency cycles over on the F# for fun and profit site. The last post shows cycles and modularity in the wild comparing open source C# and F# projects including SpecFlow and TickSpec which ha[...]

Last night the F#unctional Londoners Meetup put on a Hands On Machine Learning session at Skills Matter in London. It was a really well attended event, so much so that we had to put a cap on the number of attendees when we reached 70 registrations. The ma[...]

This week I added a simple tremolo effect to my mini-keyboard project Monokeys. Tremolo is a trembling effect, and sometimes seen in Low Frequency Oscillators. I found an example of Coding some Tremolo[...]

I assist with the face to face interview of software engineers at our firm.  One of my favorite questions to ask a candidate is “What is the most important quality a unit test should have?”  I’m surprised at how many times I get a blank stare; I mean I wo[...]

There’s a fair amount of excitement with the recent announcements of the new XBox One and PS4 consoles with exciting new harder specs and TV features. There has never been a better time to own an PS3 or XBox 360. On the “old” consoles there’s a massive ba[...]