In F#, you can defined record types which differ from tuples and discriminated unions in that they allow you to organize values into a type and name those values through fields: Looks like a cut-down version of a standard .Net class with a couple of prope[...]

How deep do you think you can nest your closures in JavaScript? Yes, we know there is no tail-recursion, probably no inlining either, we know we should not do this, but sometimes we still do. Before today I expected something like 64-128 levels of nesting[...]

I’m taking a bit of time to brush up my knowledge of F# and see if I can write better F# code and one of the things I notice is that whilst I use pipe-forward operator (|>) often when working with collections I don’t nearly use the pipe-backward operator [...]

The question has an answer: knockout js vs backbone js But the obvious question has not been answered. Why are they comparing apples and oranges? It’s like comparing ext to jQuery.

My blog was running in SubText, but I’ve recently changed to BlogEngine.NET. The main reason for the change was that BlogEngine.NET supports storing the data in plain XML files, without having any dependency to a database. This makes it really easy to c[...]

Dispose In order to release unmanaged resources you need to use or implement the dispose method. Unmanaged resource So what is an unmanaged resource? It is simply resources that the CLR does not manage for you. For example: File streams, database conne[...]

Dispose In order to release unmanaged resources you need to use or implement the dispose method. Unmanaged resource So what is an unmanaged resource? It is simply resources that the CLR does not manage for you. For example: File streams, database conne[...]

A significant part of F# 3.0 support for F# Information Rich Programming is the F# Type Provider mechanism. An F# type provider is a component that provides types, properties, and methods for use in your program. For more information on F# 3.0 and the F# [...]