To try out something different, I took a shot at writing a pretty-printing module. Of all the papers I found on the subject, perhaps the most accessible is A prettier printer by Wadler. In particular the algebra of documents presented in the paper is very simple and therefore compelling. I tried to implement these combinators in a OCaml. Unfortunately for OCaml, Wadler's code heavily relies on laziness for searching the exponentially large tree of possible printouts and selecting the optimal one by limite[...]

WebSharper has seen a few more releases, the latest being 2.4.63. In a nutshell, you now can: Update HTML templates in sitelets without recompiling the solution and see immediate changes Use VS in Windows Phone 7 and Eclipse in Android templates, taking advantage of more customization opportunities and IDE services such as an integrated debugger Use HttpContext.Current.Session in sitelets and remote/RPC methods Use Visual Studio 2011 Beta, .NET 4.5, Windows 8, F# 3.0, even if you do not have the previou[...]

WebSharper 2.4.35 is a bugfix release, fixing offline site generation and other important issues. See the complete list of changes.

I have been thoroughly enjoying our latest project at IntelliFactory. Me and Loïc Denuzière, the creator of FPish, are working together for the U Nebraska Medical Center on genetic visualization with HTML5/WebSharper/F#. The organism of interest is Staphylococcus aureus. We have built an interactive chart showing its genome coding sequences and a few thousand transposon insertions performed in the UNMC labs. You are welcome to play with the latest prototype. It has been fun to do some graphics and modu[...]

WebSharper 2.4, our latest F# web stack based on a F#-to-JavaScript compiler, is out today, and it is open source, with a dual licensing model: you either use AGPL + OSS exceptions or purchase a commercial license. See details at websharper.com, and source at bitbucket.org.