By now, most everyone is aware of Pi Day, celebrating the famous mathematical constant on 3/14. On this day each year, students and math enthusiasts eat pie and engage in light-hearted -related activities. Then there is e Day, a day for commemorating the [...]

By now, most everyone is aware of Pi Day, celebrating the famous mathematical constant \(\pi \approx 3.14159\) on 3⁄14. On this day each year, students and math enthusiasts eat pie and engage in light-hearted \(\pi\)-related activities. Then there is e [...]

This is just a short howto as I think it might come handy, as I struggled a bit on some points. I needed a simple way to self-host a REST-like service (returning XML data) with fine control on the structure of the results. I had a look at Nancy and others[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News New FSSF membership site is live! Join the F# Software Foundation! Participate in “Twitter Pulse #fsharp 2014“. F# Advent Calendar 2014 has ended – read full English and Japanese vers[...]

Past two years, at the beginning of the year, I did a post where I have tried to sum up year results and find some interesting facts/stats from tweets: 2013: Twitter Pulse #fsharp 2013 2012: Rhythm of the F# Сommunity heartbeat This year was really awesom[...]

Hallo Spartaner … ähm – Spartakiaden Rekuten und Soldaten: Richtet eueren Blick auf unser Schild: In der Mitte seht ihr ein großes Lambda. Historiker sagen dies war ein Symbol für die Lakedaimonier. Ich sage: Das ist nur die halbe Wahrheit – \(\Lambda\) b[...]

As 2015 dawns upon us, here’s a quick look  back at what I got up to in 2014.   I went to a few conferences and gave some talks: Modelling game economy with Neo4j at CodeMesh 14 My adventure with Elm at NDC London 14 Learn you to tame complex APIs with F#[...]

Well, we are in the last hours of 2014, and I am nearly recovered from the craziness that was the F# Europa Tour 2014, so here we go – the Tour, in cold, hard facts (after all, I am a numbers’ guy): 40 days of travelling across Europe. 16 talks. [...]

2014 has been a good year, and it ended with a bang! With so many great talks to choose from, here are my top 10 most memorable talks I have attended/watched this year (not in any particular order since they have all taught me something different).   Kevl[...]