Source code for this post can be found on my GitHub. It’s great to see technologies evolving over the years. Alea.CUDA has done so in leaps and bounds since the first time I laid eyes on it a couple of years ago. At the time the name seemed unfortunate and hinted at the “aleatic” programming […]

In a previous post on F# data access I dropped a hint about a functional way of handling invalid arguments. The code in question looked like this. let insertLocation city state = if state |> String.length >= 2 then DataAccess.createLocation city state else raise (System.ArgumentException("Not a valid State")) If you're new to the functional paradigm you may not see any issue with this code. To explain why this isn't an ideal solution let's first look at a simpler function. let divide x[...]

One of my biggest hurdles when starting with F# was how I should structure an actual application. There was documentation for individual libraries and scripts but not so much for app structure this post by Scott Wlaschin is fantastic, but is at a different level than I fully understood at that point in my F# journey. The goal of this post is to provide a bridge to help developers new to F#. Getting Started The first thing to do will be to create a new F# application. For this tutorial I'll use the F[...]

I’ll be speaking at Lambda Jam next week. Here’s the synopsis: When you leave Lambda Jam and return to work, do you expect to apply what you’ve learned here to hard problems, or is there just never time or permission to venture outside of fixing “undefined is not a function" in JavaScript? Many of us do [...]

Pentago is a favorite board game of mine, which I used to play regularly with coworkers during lunch (and occasionally during not-lunch). The rules are very simple, and casual games can be played in just a few minutes, but it's deep enough to still be satisfying if you're willing to put some thought into your strategy. … Continue reading Pentago →