I've been recently interested in Functors, applicatives and monads, especially in context of complex validation. FSharpx has a validation module (among many other wonderful features). I've played with it a bit: Applicatives can be combined using several [...]

  Next Tuesday I'll be taking part in an IEEE Computer Society Webinar about Try F#. Please join us! Register here. Date:  Tuesday, May 7, 2013 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT / 19:00  GMT (Duration: 1 hour)   Try F# is an easy on-ramp to learning F#, a simple a[...]

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[...]