WebSharper 4 beta now has F#4.1 and C#7 language support

Fixes for tail recursion optimizations, lighter representation of F# unions/records with no extra members

We started work on WebSharper 4 more than a year ago, open-sourced it in May and published first beta packages in August. It is a project with a big scope and still some features are planned before we would call it stable. This article is an introduction [...]

If you’d like to support the Durandal project, please back their Kickstarter project With Visual Studio 2013 One ASP.NET Web Project, I couldn’t find a way to choose Durandal SPA Template directly even after I install the VSIX file. The easiest way is to [...]

I’m heading home on the geek train back from a cracking DDD North, this year held in Sunderland and attracting 430 attendees and three well attended F# talks. I managed to deliver the first pony of the day in F# eye for the C# Guy: F# Eye for the C# G[...]

From the window at the office I’ve seen a series of futuristic buildings erected, first the Gherkin, then the Shard and now the Walkie Talkie:   The last one being recently been re-dubbed the Walkie Scorchie as it produces a supercharged solar ‘death ra[...]

JavaScript is good, so JavaScript the good parts must be really good, so it follows that as part of JavaScript the Good Parts, prototypal inheritance must be really, really good. Some time ago while I was working on a supply chain management system for a[...]

Razor is a programming syntax for dynamic ASP.Net web pages released in 2011. Here’s a C# syntax example from W3 Schools: <!-- Single statement block --> @{ var myMessage = "Hello World"; } <!-- Inline expression or variable --> <p>The value of myMe[...]

This year I had the privilege of attending and speaking at the Strangeloop conference in St Louis. The venues, the Union Street Marriot (a National Historic Landmark), and the Peabody Opera House were spectacular. The range of sessions and speakers wa[...]

If I walk into my garage now and open up a toolbox, whats inside? Here’s a quick selection: Ball-peen hammer Jointer plane 1/2 inch mortise chisel Soldering iron Set square Low angle block plane Torx screw drivers Hack saw Monkey wrench Pipe cutter [...]