I assist with the face to face interview of software engineers at our firm.  One of my favorite questions to ask a candidate is “What is the most important quality a unit test should have?”  I’m surprised at how many times I get a blank stare; I mean I wo[...]

There’s a fair amount of excitement with the recent announcements of the new XBox One and PS4 consoles with exciting new harder specs and TV features. There has never been a better time to own an PS3 or XBox 360. On the “old” consoles there’s a massive ba[...]

  This Thursday evening at the F# London Meetup we have a Machine Learning Hands On with F#, led by Phil Trelford and others. Venue: The Skills Matter eXchange, 116-120 Goswell Road, EC1V 7DP, London (map)   In this regular meetup we'll take on one or mo[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News New home for FSharp.Charting library was announced. A new page with the F# videos became available of fsharp.org. MS Press published: F# for C# Developers. Put up some simple docs for[...]

Sample jQuery mobile single-page application with dynamically created and reused pages using WebSharper

After a while websites start to look the same: Af And most websites use the same server-side programming language: And the other programming languages look the same. PHP PHP supports classes these days: class Person { public $firstName; public[...]

Playing a bit more with generics, I stumbled upon some fairly compact combinators that can derive n-ary conjunctions from a binary conjunction. Here is a self-explanatory F# example (disregard the ugliness involved in F#'s lack of higher kinds, Haskell or[...]

Don Pinto of CouchBase gave a webinar today on some common use cases of CouchBase, with the recording and slides below: Webinar — How Companies Use Couchbase: Common Use Cases from Couchbase

The apache project Wienre looks kind of cool.