“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[...]

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[...]