This article describes type-first development (TFD). A software development methodology that is quite common among functional programmers and uses types as a simple way of communicating ideas about program design.

Found a useful little snippet that converts a C# dictionary to F#’s map which uses the built-in KeyValue active pattern:

I spent the last couple of nights and put together a small BERT serializer for .Net called Filbert.   What’s BERT? BERT (Binary ERlang Term) is a binary format based on Erlang’s binary serialization format (as used by erlang:term_to_binary/1) but supports[...]

Uncle Bob summarizes the latest research in the field of software architecture (Ports and Adapters (GOOS), DCI by Coplien etc): The Clean Architecture

This week I was assigned a bug with a single line stack trace: Telerik.Windows.Controls.RadDocking.<>c__DisplayClass1b'::'<DropWindow>b__19   The exception type was of type NullReferenceException. The issue could be reproduced by repeatedly docking and[...]

I finally published the first in a series of short, video tutorials describing web programming in the functional paradigm. The first video briefly introduces the tools I’ll be using: F# and ASP.NET Web API.