I often think of why I feel that it’s important to have a functional language—not just write code that’s pseudo-functional in an imperative language.  As I think this through, I wanted to record some of my ideas on the subject. Even the best developers I’[...]

When I wrote my summary of the conference, I forgot something very important: you can download nearly all of the Clojure/West 2012 presentations from github. Some of the files are quite large so you may not be able to simply view the raw PDF on github - y[...]

Again, I’d like to thank Igal Tabachnik and SharpCrafters for inviting me to do the webinar, the recording of the session is now available on their Vimeo channel. Pseudo Real Time Performance Monitoring with AOP and AWS CloudWatch from SharpCrafters on Vi[...]

To find the answer to this question I put together a very simple test, but before we go into it.. Disclaimer: this test and its result should be taken at face value only, it is intended to illustrate that posting messages to an agent is super lightweight,[...]

I’m happy to annouce a new nuget release of FSharpx.TypeProviders. The new version 1.5.3 allows to access JSON and XML in a strongly typed way. These new type providers are based on an XML type provider by Tomas Petricek. I added a write API and a JSON ve[...]

Fizz-Buzz or Bizz Buzz is a word game, popularized by Jeff Atwood in the article: Why Can’t Programmers… Program? The game has been turned into a simple programming test: Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples o[...]

One of the problems with using F#’s Discriminated Unions is that they are not extensible, in that all your union cases must be specified inside one Discriminated Union (abbreviated to DU from this point) type and you can’t inherit from an existing DU type[...]