Following up from @isaac_abraham’s awesome F# Enigma machine emulator, I decided it would be 10x cooler if it was in a type provider, because let’s face it, everything is 10x cooler once it’s in a type provider. Here a some pictures of it in action! As you can see, it uses an extensive property system that presents a menu along with the various controls to setup your enigma machine, and then finally to translate some text.  This TP is written with my InteractiveProvider as per usual.  On my first attempt[...]

This post is part of the F# advent calendar, which is filled with all sorts of other cool blog posts, be sure to check it out.  Thanks to Sergey Tihon for organising! It’s Christmas! Happy Christmas everyone!  I have the honour of the Christmas Day F# advent calendar post (Thanks Tomas, ha!).  I had a whole bunch of different ideas, and typically, I decided to choose the largest, most complicated one.  Because of this, there is a lot of code written in just a couple of evenings. It is for the most part, ba[...]

Intro I’m sure you would have all seen the highly addictive and annoying game 2048 by now (if not, follow the link and have a go now, don’t forget to come back here though! ).  Fellow F#er  @brandewinder wrote a bot that wins the game for you, subsequently turning it into an cool F# dojo.  It is London’s turn for this dojo next Thursday, so I figured before then I would have a go myself and do the obvious thing which is to turn it into a type provider :) 2048 TP Edition is available as part of my type prov[...]

I thought it would be nice to share some of the technical books that I have learnt most from, and still love to look through or use as reference to this day.   These are in no particular order and cover a variety of technical subjects, and some are far from recent.  If you are interested in any of these areas and have not read these books, I cannot recommend them highly enough!  I have many, many many books and have read countless over the years, many of them are awesome but are not making this list as it [...]

The SQL provider now supports basic transactional CRUD functionality and an ODBC provider. A new nuget package is up for you to grab here. As always, you can download and build from source here. The nuget package is still pre-release. You can find it in Visual Studio by toggling the search filter to include pre-release packages. I'm sure Xamarin has a similar feature.  Once this work has been tested well enough,  I will likely upgrade the SQL Provider to a proper release. Experimental ODBC Support We now h[...]