Just a quick note to mention that I’ll be speaking to the F#unctional Londoners on Thursday, 28th Jun about using .Net in the social gaming space which is usually dominated by PHP. In this session I’ll share some insight into how we at GameSys uses a poly[...]

We have just released a new version (2.4.85) of WebSharper, our web development framework and F#-to-JavaScript compiler. The main highlight of this release is experimental support for easy cloud deployment of your applications with AppHarbor. Small AppHar[...]

On day 1 of the Progressive F# Tutorials in NYC on the beginner’s track we started with the F# Koans to introduce F#’s syntax and language features, and then finished up with F# Katas to put some of that learning into practice. On day 2 the idea was to l[...]

It was the best of times, it was the… Actually, it was all just fantastic. On the beginner track Chris Marinos, Phil Trelford, and Tomas Petricek worked tirelessly in teaching F#. I was thoroughly impressed with the quality of their tutorials and would re[...]

Last week I flew out to New York for the Progressive F# Tutorials NYC hosted by Skills Matter and organised by Richard Minerich. The event was held in the atmospheric Liberty Hall event space at the Ace hotel in mid-town Manhattan, and not far from the Em[...]

I seem to have forgotten to blog about some recent releases of the Clojure wrapper for JDBC. This post covers those recent changes. Release 0.2.2 on 2012-06-10 Handle Oracle unknown row count affected [JDBC-33] Handle jdbc: prefix in string db-specs [JD[...]

I came across this SO question the other day, and I really liked Daniel’s answer as it illustrates the beauty and elegance of F# and functional programming in general! Personally I love the combinators approach, and for anyone else who’s interested to see[...]

Definition of iconoclast from Wikipedia: An iconoclast is someone who engages in iconoclasm—destruction of religious symbols or, by extension, established dogma or conventions. Recently the GOTO Copenhagen conference had a track dedicated to Iconocl[...]

Refusing? As a developer, assume that you are given technology or tool X and told that you need to create Y using it. Sometime it’s just getting down to business and getting it done. Sometimes you realize that using said technology is a mistake. It could[...]