Last weekend I teamed up with other gamers for the Creative Assembly game jam at Rezzed. We had 9 hours to create a game, and were given the theme of the 80s at 9am on the Saturday morning. After some brainstorming we came up with the idea of a platform g[...]

Following on from my last post on formatting a Markdown document into PDF using FSharp.Markdown.Pdf, if you don’t like the default styling (which I tried to mimic style Github formats Markdown documents with) you can set your own styling for the different[...]

Nowadays, Atlassian products become more and more popular. Different companies and teams start using Jira and Confluence for project management. It would be good to have an ability to communicate with these services from .NET. As you probably know, Jira a[...]

SharePoint Search Service Applications have two modes for crawling content: Full Crawl that re-crawls all documents from Content Source. Incremental Crawl that crawls documents modified since the previous one. But it is really not enough if you are workin[...]

I stumbled across a set of slides with a rather comprehensive overview of the different aspects of S3, worthwhile reading for anyone who works with Amazon S3 regularly. Enjoy! Masterclass Webinar: Amazon S3 from Amazon Web Services

“Design patterns are bug reports against your programming language” Peter Norvig Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News F# Software Foundation is more and more active day by day. Want to know more and be involved? Join now[...]

It seems to be quite a long time since I've written a genuine "code" blog post. Time to fix that. This material may well be covered elsewhere – it's certainly not terrifically original, and I've been meaning to post about it for a long time. In particula[...]

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[...]