Being able to play Mine Sweeper inside your IDE via intellisense, that is what you have always wanted right?  Well, I’m always willing to lend a hand!  With this fantastic new type provider you can pretend you are working when really you are avoiding mine[...]

I've been an advocate of diversity in IT for a long time. I'm very pleased to work in a company that has an above average ratio of female to male employees, as well as very diverse cultural backgrounds amongst our staff. In most tech communities, diversi[...]

clojure.java.jdbc 0.3.3 is a minor bug fix release: JDBC-89 - calling query with a bare SQL string no longer causes an exception (or a crash with some drivers!). JDBC-87 - metadata-result is no longer lazy by default, and accepts :row-fn and :result-set-[...]

Introducing my latest top-o-the-line type provider that everyone wants and needs. The Squirrelify provider!  This very useful type provider will create an INFINITE type system and show you random pictures of ASCII art in intellisense.  It turns out that i[...]

This post is intended to show how easy it is to use the F# programming language in order to explore new libraries and get stuff going quickly. It also shows the usage of various great F# features such as Record Types, Discriminated Unions, Computation Exp[...]

I was recently directed to an article on "tiny types" - an approach to static typing which introduces distinct types for the sake of code clarity, rather than to add particular behaviour to each type. As I understand it, they're like type aliases with no [...]

I was recently directed to an article on "tiny types" – an approach to static typing which introduces distinct types for the sake of code clarity, rather than to add particular behaviour to each type. As I understand it, they’re like type aliases with no [...]

If you have done any DevOps work on Amazon Web Services (AWS) then you should be familiar with Amazon CloudWatch, a service for tracking and viewing metrics (CPU, network in/out, etc.) about the various AWS services that you consume, or better still, cust[...]

I recently reorganized the SimpleSpeedTester project’s structure so that it’s easier to add tests to both the Json and binary serializer benchmarks, and to run the tests is as easy as running the RunBenchmarks.fsx F# script and then choosing which benchma[...]