Tweet So OSCON came and went, and whilst I haven’t seen the recording for any of the sessions, the keynotes (and a bunch of interviews) are available on YouTube. Unlike most conferences, the OSCON keynotes are really short (average 10–15 mins each) and having watched all the published keynote sessions here are my top picks.   Simon Wardley

Just four days ago we released Try WebSharper, and here we go with the first feature enhancement: embedding snippets. A huge thanks to Don Syme for suggesting it.

A couple of weeks ago, I came across this blog post by Steve Shogren, which looks at various programming languages, and attempts to define a “language safety score”, by taking into account a list of language criteria (Are nulls allowed? Can variables be mutated? And so on), aggregating them into an overall safety score – and finally looking for whether the resulting score was a reasonable predictor for the observed bug rate across various projects. I thought this was an interesting idea. However, I also h[...]

I had a need for the Erlang build tool rebar for a project I was trying to start on; a bit of pen testing via Elixir.  I was going to pull down the rebar3 script from the site and fix it up for myself and it occurred to me that others might want a way […]

The recent release of WebSharper 3.4 also brought an update to most of the project templates shipped for Visual Studio, MonoDevelop, and Xamarin Studio.