This post is part of the .Net Christmas Advent calendar organized by Dustin Morris Gorski on Twitter.Background.Net or dotNet is a developer platform from Microsoft from the noughties, inspired by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) from the 1990s. Both platforms are used by millions of developers, with the JVM used primarily for Enterprise apps and Android mobile app development, and .Net again used primarily for Enterprise apps along with games on Unity.For a practical example of Enterprise app development st[...]

This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2020 series organized by Sergey Tihon on behalf of the F# Programming Language community.Earlier in the year I picked up a Revo radio for the DAB+ and stayed for the Internet Radio stations, that open up the world of radio, and am now tuning in using an old Raspberry Pi running Pi Music Box connected to the stereo system. I’ve been enjoying quite a lot of Dub Reggae particularly King Dub Radio which is produced by King Dub Records based out of Marseill[...]

This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2017 series organized by Sergey Tihon. A while back I used the Meetup API to build a timeline of F# Meetup events across the globe Timeline of #fsharp meetups around the world https://t.co/EDf5vvyJKF using @CodyWebHouse's responsivel sample, the @meetup API & the JSON TP— Sean's Dad (@ptrelford) April 21, 2016 The timeline (circa May 2016): http://trelford.com/timeline/  You can find the source code in this Gist: https://gist.github.com/ptrelford/75[...]

This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2016 series organized by Sergey Tihon. Last month on November 16 – 17, IDTechEx held their largest annual conference and tradeshow on emerging technologies in California with over 200 speakers and close to 4,000 attendees. The show covers a wide variety of topics including electric vehicles, energy harvesting, energy storage, IoT, graphene, printed electronics, robotics, sensors, AR, VR and wearables. Coming from a software background, I couldn’t help[...]

Silverlight, once hailed by Microsoft evangelists, is now dead, crucified by the side of Flash by Jobs when he brought down his tablets from mountain view, and then buried by Sinofsky under his surfaces. But is it really dead? Silverlight certainly seems dead in the browser with Google cutting off support in Chrome followed by Microsoft in Edge. Yet Silverlight still lives on in Windows Phone and Windows Store (formerly Windows Runtime, formerly Metro). Resurrection Back in 2010 and 2011 I made a series o[...]