I was thinking about how nice you have it in some languages where you can do a case statement for types. Thing is, we have a lot of compiler goodness in C# already. By being explicit about the type and using type inference we can have a generic Case stat[...]

I’ve found writing unit tests in F# very productive, with it’s terse syntax and powerful type inference. I write F# tests against C# and F# implementations. Writing tests in F# can be a good introduction to the language and this is something we do on ou[...]

Just a quick note to say that I have made some minor changes to DynamoDb.SQL to: Add support for specifying the ScanIndexForward option(see DynamoDB API doc here for detail) in a Query operation using an optional “ORDER” clause Fixed a bug where when quer[...]

Just a quick note to say that I have updated the JSON serializers benchmark to use the latest Nuget versions of ServiceStack.Text, Json.Net and JsonFX. I have also included the JSON and BSON serializers from the MongoDB C# Driver in the test, and since BS[...]

Our F# community group of the week is The San Francisco Bay Area F# Meetup Group. I had the pleasure to meet some of the people in the group last week, at their last meetup held at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley. Meetups are normally held in San Fra[...]

Another conj, another three days of awesome. Hundreds of Clojurians met in Raleigh, NC for a single track of leading edge talks from the community. What did this year's Clojure/conj have to offer? Here's my view of the highlights... There were several the[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, It’s time to read Mission Statement and join F# Software Foundation! Now you can enjoy new portion of F# weekly: Blogs & Tutorials Mathias Brandewinder posted “Kaggle/StackOverflow contest field notes, part 1“ Jack Fox blogged “Let’s[...]