The alternatives right now (2012-02-22):<ol> Standard html: File select together in a form that is submitted to a page. (firefox, chrome, IE) Iframe hack: File select together with hidden iframe used to upload file. (firefox, chrome, IE) Flash (all flash [...]

Less than a month to go now until the first FP event of this year – the Functional Programming eXchange at Skills Matter in London on March 16th. Robert Pickering has put together another great line up including on the F# side Tomas Petricek on F# 3.0’[...]

Just a quick note to mention that I will be speaking to The Developers Group on the 14th Mar about NoSQL Databases and how to use them to solve common web use cases. In this session I’ll give an overview of the NoSQL movement and compare the different typ[...]

asp.net mvc 4 has been released to beta. The exciting news here is websockets. Migrations for entity framework could help people realize the usefulness the technique.

This will be the last post on rebuilding the MailboxProcessor using <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/gg58558

This will be the last post on rebuilding the MailboxProcessor using TDF, here’s a quick discussion of the missing pieces… First, lets start with the simple ones, these don’t really require much discussion. DefaultTimeout 1 2 3 4 5 let mutable defaultT[...]

For Functional Programming eXchange 2012 and I’ve tried to put together a programming that mixes the best the functional programming community has to give. I wanted both talks that show how functional programming languages can be used more effectively and[...]

For illustration purposes only, here’s how you can implement the QuickSort algorithm in a few lines of code: Note that I’ve not made the list generic to avoid complications and performance overheads associated with dealing with generics. Even then, my 5-l[...]

Looks like John Resig has implemented the diff algorithm in javascript. This looks quite useful. Could be valuable for client side use. There is however a npm package that perhaps can used when analysing the code coverage information.