Faisal Waris has published a very interesting Experience Report on using F# on Android with the Xamarin tools. It is fabulous to again see independent confirmation of the value of F# in the mobile computing space. TL;DR: F# and Xamarin triumphed. I can’t imagine writing such a complex mobile app in another language. Instead of...

So I’m trying to fill out my understanding of basic functional programming concepts in terms of Elixir and Erlang.  One concept that I wanted to know a bit more about is how Partial Function Application and Currying work in Elixir.  Especially given that the function signature of a function in Elixir includes its arity, it […]

Do you need to convince your friends & family that programming can be fun? For the last Christmas, I got a puzzle as a gift. It is a number of small cubes, joined together, that can be rotated and folded to form a bigger (4x4x4) cube. We spent the last few days of the year with family and a couple of friends and I left the puzzle on the table. Every time I walked around, someone was playing with it without much success. In the end, I said that if noone solves it until 31 December, I'll write a program to[...]

This release continues our efforts to require fewer dependencies on your machine before you can use CloudSharper. In earlier releases, various CloudSharper templates (most notably, the WebSharper Sitelet Website template) required .targets files that were part of Visual Studio. This dependency is now eliminated.

A couple of days ago, I got into the following Twitter exchange: @brandewinder do you have any link to get in touch with this combo? #fsharp— Max Malook (@max_malook) March 21, 2014   So why do I think FsCheck + XUnit = The Bomb? I have a long history with Test-Driven Development; to this day, I consider Kent Beck’s “Test-Driven Development by Example” one of the biggest influences in the way I write code (any terrible code I might have written is, of course, to be blamed entirely on me, and not on the[...]