Existing embedded DSLs for XML in F# all have their quirks and inconvenients. I'm presenting a small patch to the F# compiler that allows to implement a better XML EDSL.

We are pleased to announce the availability of a preview release of version 3.1 of the F# language, with matching Visual F# tooling. These are included with the Visual Studio 2013 Preview Release announced at //BUILD/ and on Soma’s blog. F# as a languag[...]

This post is a short overview of my talk at Belarus SharePoint User Group at 2013/06/27. Declarative authorization in REST services in SharePoint with F# and ServiceStack from Sergey Tihon The primary goals were to find an efficient declarative way to spe[...]

I’ve written a small appender for log4net. This appender saves the data to elasticsearch. Why is this sweet? Because elasticsearch has expiration date field. Since the format is log4net there are very few code changes in application. Why the name elmah? I[...]

There are two good news for all F# NLP lovers. News #1: Using The Stanford Parser from F# is easier than it has ever been. From now, the latest version(v3.2.0.0) of The Stanford Parser is available on Nuget. All you need to do is: Install-Package FSharp.N[...]

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