I love this part of the year, there are great conferences happening between now and Feb, and I’m honoured to have been accepted as speaker to some of these amazing events.   Functional Finance (London) Oct 31st I’ll be giving a talk on taming complex APIs with F#-powered DSLs, using a number of popular AWS [...]

It’s been a little while since I last spent time with Elm, and since Elm 0.13 was recently announced so what better time to get my Elm hat back on and see what’s new. There’s a new-look online debugger which looks prettier than before: but more important than that, is the new Elm Reactor command [...]

As a former competitor in Texas’ UIL Computer Science competition, I thought I would check in and see how it had evolved. I have a desire to, at some point, try to spend some volunteer time at a local high school working with Computer Science students, and I thought this might give me a view […]

DISCLAIMER : as always, you should bench­mark against your pay­load and use case, the bench­mark num­bers I have pro­duced here is unlikely to be rep­re­sen­ta­tive of your use cases and nei­ther is any­body else’s bench­mark numbers. You can use the sim­ple test har­ness I cre­ated and see these exam­ple code to bench­mark against your par­tic­u­lar [...]

If you have ever come across my blog before, it will probably come as no surprise if I tell you that I enjoy coding with F# tremendously. However, there is another reason why I enjoy F#, and that is the Community aspect. One thing we have been trying to do in San Francisco is to build a group that is inclusive, and focused on learning together. This is why we started the coding dojos a while back: one of our members mentioned that while he was convinced from talks that F# was a good language, presentatio[...]