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[...]

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.[...]