Recently, I had a few interesting discussions on F# code readability. One argument I often hear about F# is that by virtue of its succinctness, it increases the signal-to-noise ratio. I certainly found this to be true: when the entire code fits on your sc[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Xamarin Studio now has F# addin IntelliFactory is offerring free WebSharper licenses for MVP. Foq 0.8 was released. Canopy: F# web testing framework built on Selenium was presented. R[...]

I got a Pi for my birthday! A great excuse to get back into electronics. After unsuccessfully struggling to get the F# compiler to build under the stable version of mono for Debian Wheezy, I realised that F# programs work just fine if you build normally f[...]

In the previous post “ServiceStack: New API – F# Sample (Web Service out of a web server)” we implemented a self-hosted service with ServiceStack. That service has multiple out-of-the-box endpoints, including a REST one. The next interesting question is “[...]

[ Update: the CRM type provider is now available as the FSharpx.TypeProviders.Xrm NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples" to "FSharpx" ] Part 1 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider SamplePart 2 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provi[...]

Reblogged from FourEightThree: After reading Sergey Tihon's post about IKVM and the stanford parser. I thought I'd try and create a IKVM type provider. The first version can be found on my GitHub account here. The following code shows a simple sample on h[...]

I talked about the XML and JSON serialization of F# types in a previous post, and since then F# 3.0 has been released and a new [CLIMutable] was quietly added amidst the hype surrounding the awesome type providers!   CLIMutable Attribute When applied to a[...]

Two weeks ago in F# Weekle #6 2013 I mentioned Don Syme’s “F# + ServiceStack – F# Web Services on any platform in and out of a web server” post. There were two samples of  using ServiceStack from F#. One of these examples is given on ServiceStack wiki pag[...]

There's a double act at the F#unctional Londoners Meetup on Thursday night. Thursday, February 28, 2013, 6:30 PM, The Skills Matter eXchange, 116-120 Goswell Road, EC1V 7DP, London(map) Title: The F# 3.0 SQL Server Type Provider - Very Cool, and Very Usef[...]

Just a quick note to say that another minor update to DynamoDB.SQL has been release, you can view the release notes here.   The latest update adds support for a TSQL style WITH keyword for specifying optional parameters for tweaking the query/scan operati[...]