Since I liked the ruby version for parsing phone numbers, I ported it to c#. In order to avoid having to rewrite to much I did the following:<ol> To begin with, the entire project was using ruby name convention. This simplifies things. Whenever there is a[...]

Since I liked the ruby version for parsing phone numbers, I ported it to C#. In order to avoid having to rewrite to much I did the following: To begin with, the entire project was using ruby name convention. This simplifies things. Whenever there is[...]

While I’m thinking about it, another quick comment.  If you’re asked to RSVP to a meetup, user group, etc. please do not say “I’ll attend” unless you’re sure you’ll attend.  As dumb as it sounds we have a few people around the Metro Detroit area (not nami[...]

…when Here Be Monsters players are up to their old tricks again! Here’s a selection of their work:

Stanford CoreNLP provides a set of natural language analysis tools which can take raw English language text input and give the base forms of words, their parts of speech, whether they are names of companies, people, etc., normalize dates, times, and numer[...]

The F# Outlining extension to Visual Studio is an F# community extension to Visual Studio for use with Visual Studio 2010, 2012 and 2013 provided by Victor Milovanov. By installing this extension you can add standard code outlining and collapsing capabili[...]

So I want to capture these thoughts while I can for whatever value they may have to myself or others in the future. Last night we did a coding dojo on building Android apps with F#.  Reluctantly, after a little cajoling from a co-worker I decided to add a[...]

Hello, just a quick note to mention that I have a number of speaking engagements coming up: London Graph Connect 19th Nov – where I will be talking about our use of Neo4j with my colleague Toby O’Rouke F# in Finance (London) 25th Nov – where I will be tal[...]

So I love it when a very natural use case arises for a feature that I want to practice.  I’ve been trying to better my understanding of active patterns lately and today I found a great use for them. I’m fetching json data from a REST endpoint.  Of course [...]

So far our (1) level is fairly painful code to look at – admittedly SpriteKit and F# take something that could have been horrific and simply make it tedious. Today we change that. DSL According to Wikipedia a DSL is … Continue reading →