In the last week or so I've seen a popular article and a presentation which didn’t paint the rosiest of pictures for the next generation of coders: Marc Scott’s Kids Can't Use Computers... And This Is Why It Should Worry You Brett Victor’s The Fut[...]

Last night I ran a free hands on Generative Art session to a full class room at Skills Matter for the F#unctional Londoners meetup group. We host a hands on programming sessions every month, next month we’ll return to the Machine Learning theme with Matt [...]

A little while back I stumbled upon a fun generative art project by Maxime Chevalier called Turing drawings that produces 2D procedural art based on randomly generated Turing machines. The project’s code is in JavaScript using a HTML canvas which you can [...]

On Tuesday I did a lightning talk at the MVP Summit in Bellevue on connecting to all things, from statistics to statistical programming languages with Intellisense and LINQ using F# Type Providers, a feature shipped with Visual Studio 2012:   Connect[...]

First things first, a big thanks to the team at Skills Matter particularly Wendy and Anaïs for making this event happen. This year the tutorials were held over 2 days in the atmospheric Crypt in Clerkenwell: Expect a return next year in London and [...]

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 [...]

This week I had the please of attending GOTO Copenhagen - a 3 day developer conference covering a diverse range of topics. Day 1 I started the day on the excellent Beyond the Microsoft Echo Chamber track taking in: Mark Seeman on Bending AutoFixture[...]

Do you want to write succinct, type-safe and correct HTML5 web code which is not full of bugs?  Writing Javascript-executing code with F# is appealing for these and other reasons I've gone into before, and the open source Pit and WebSharper frameworks giv[...]