In this article, I explore the amazing relationship between functional data types and algebraic operations. We will use this relationship to reason about domain model and understand the differences between several possible representations.

Suppose you need to write a script that finds n files, all called based on some pattern, say “c:\temp\my_file_x.txt”, where “x” is replaced by a range of numbers [1..30] for instance, reads the content of these files and glues them together. Suppose also [...]

A month ago I posted that java.jdbc 0.3.0 alpha 1 was available for testing and since then I've made a few more alpha releases as the API and code settles down so I figured it was time to blog about the recent changes. Release 0.3.0-alpha4 on 2013-05-11 [...]

Through Jack Pappas, the F# Software Foundation (the F# community group also known as fsharp.org) has recently made F# more readily available on FreeBSD.  Some details below, taken from the discussion on the F# Open Source Google Group. Since my original [...]

Other than noting back in January that all three(!) of my talk proposals were accepted, I haven't blogged about them since, so the only information about them is on the cf.Objective() web site. The session overviews give a fair sense of what you should ge[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, Tiny weekly this time, a short roundup of F# content from this past week: News Node.js + C# + F# + Python + PowerShell interop === #edgejs Enjoying interactive data visualization with Tsunami by Taha Hachana F#-based quantum algorith[...]

If you're in the Bay Area, don't miss F# for Machine Learning - a Gentle Introduction and Coding Dojo on Tuesday, May 14 at 6:00pm. The F# Software Foundation also have a collection of links about F# and Machine Learning, as well as related topics includi[...]

 If you're in Seattle, Redmond or the Puget Sound Area, don't miss the Seattle DotNet Startup Group session on F# for Startups. Joel Grus is Chief Scientist at VoloMetrix, where he develops and builds the algorithms for the core analytics platform (mostly[...]

Chocolatey looks very useful - it lets you install software into PATH on Windows by one-liner commands from PowerShell. A poor-man's package manager.