In this post, I will show an example of where using unit testing as a design methodology does not work, and how to produce a design for correct code anyway. There is no single design methodology which works for all problems, so it’s useful to have a variety of tools at your disposal. This post is [...]

This is my modest contribution to the F# Advent Calendar 2015. Thanks to @sergey_tihon for organizing it! Check out the epic stuff others have produced so far on his website or under the #fsAdvent hashtag on Twitter. Also, don’t miss the Japan Edition of #fsAdvent for more epicness… Sometime last year, in a moment of beer-fueled inspiration, I ended up putting together @fsibot, the ultimate mobile F# IDE for the nomad developer with a taste for functional-first programming. This was fun, some people creat[...]

This is more for my documentation, but it may help someone else so I'm posting it I had been developing an Umbraco 7.3.1 site locally with no issues. Then I needed to move the database to Azure (version v12). There are sources of information for doing this sort of thing, but the ones I found were out of date or overly complex. This is a straightforward way I've found that works. Open Sql Management Studio (I'm using 2014). Navigate to your Sql database that you want to copy. Right click on the da[...]

This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2015. Thanks to Sergey Tihon for organizing and letting me be a part of it this year! Some short time after implementing MembershipProvider for the first time I realized that simply relying on abstractions to make your code extendable wasn't enough. To embrace and encourage change I had to also make those abstractions as small as possible. While the class makes it possible to change implementations, its 27 abstract methods all but guarantee you'[...]

I’ve been scouring the CodeMash accepted session list for talks featuring F#, and there are quite a few! A Developer’s Journey from Object Oriented to Functional Programming, by Reid Evans Async Everywhere!, by Stephen Cleary Deep Dive into Deep Learning, by Gary Short Functional Browser Automation Testing for Newbs, by Bryan Arendt Programs that Write Programs: How Compilers Work, by [...]