With Clojure 1.4.0 available and Leiningen 2 in preview, I felt it was time to update FW/1 and the FW/1 template to have updated dependencies. FW/1 now uses Clojure 1.4.0, Ring 1.0.2 and Enlive 1.0.0. The FW/1 template has been updated and verified for us[...]

More F# Hadoop goodness from Carl Nolan. This time a compositional framework for submitting F# and C# Azure/Hadoop map-reduce jobs.    Framework for Composing and Submitting .Net Hadoop MapReduce Jobs If you have been following my blog you will see that I[...]

Do you want to write succinct, type-safe and correct HTML5 web code which is not full of bugs?  Writing Javascript-executing code with F# is appealing for these and other reasons I've gone into before, and the open source Pit and WebSharper frameworks giv[...]

A very small maintenance release: thrown exceptions are automatically unwrapped so you should no longer need to catch a RuntimeException when you're trying to catch a SQLException!

We have been working hard to bring you WebSharper 2.4 Q2 - and today we are happy to announce the availability of the the first beta (2.4.46)... [more]

Clojure 1.4.0 has been released and it includes several nice enhancements and some bug fixes. Everyone will have their favorites but mine include (in no particular order): mapv and filterv (which return vectors) and reduce-kv (can treat a vector as a col[...]

It wasn’t long after college that I found myself blogging about the technology I was using on a regular basis. I have pretty good writing skills and am damn good with the code so soon after I was easily breaking 10K hits per post. Having a platform to sha[...]

The next F# New York City Meetup is now scheduled... Microsoft Offices, 6th floor, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, between 51st and 52nd Streets, New York, NY (map) Tomas Petricek on F# applications - From Domain Model to User Interface Wednesday, April 25,[...]

In this post we are going back to the primitive. No it’s not about the same named song by Soulfly, (which incidenta

In this post we are going back to the primitive. No it’s not about the same named song by Soulfly, (which incidentally does contains F# notes) but a return to thread synchronisation primitives and their asynchronous counterparts. We are going to be look[...]