We've recently started evaluating the New Relic monitoring service at World Singles and when you use their Java agent with your web application container, you can get a lot of information about what's going on inside your application (JVM activity, databa[...]

At the beginning of the month I gave a 30 minute talk at Cukeup!, an imaginatively named conference for the Cucumber community. The talk was titled Example.Examples,Examples: Talk about BDD and people often think about Given, When and Then. Mention Spe[...]

In our previous post, we began exploring Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) using Math.NET and F#, and showed how this linear algebra technique can be used to “extract” the core information of a dataset and construct a reduced version of the dataset with [...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News F# community on Google+. Fantomas is moving fast: web project is ready and VS add-in is in progress. Taha Hachana presented F# syntax highlighting tool. Google+ discussion on an F# Re[...]

Reblogged from do stuff, write about it, simple: I was able to record the Cleveland F# SIG, where Mike Falanga spoke about F# language's Discriminated Unions feature (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233226.aspx). Here are the videos I took of th[...]

A few years back I put together a simple Fractal Zoom in Silverlight using gray scales. Time for a little makeover with color: Hold down the mouse button over the Mandelbrot and move the mous[...]

About a year ago XAML type provider (that now a part of fsharpx project) was born. First of all, happy birthday XAML type provider and thank you everyone who was involved. Up to XAML type provider release the best option for F# WPF development was to spli[...]

Last Wednesday I got the chance to attend a “Coding Breakfast” hosted by Damien Thouvenin of CLT Services. The concept is simple, turn up a little before 8:30, enjoy some coffee and croissant, then we attempt a Coding Kata for about an hour and finally we[...]

Some weeks ago a new version of Neo4jClient was released. There were introduced some changes in the Cypher Start notation. The new Start notation for sure has become nicer for C#, but it is still a bit ugly for F#. Recommended way of using new Start notat[...]

Last week, at the Xamarin Evolve conference, Xamarin announced support for the F# language as part of the Xamarin tools for iOS and Android app programming. Microsoft were Platinum sponsors of Xamarin Evolve. Videos from Evolve will be available soon (lin[...]