A couple of months ago, I posted a list of my F# talks and courses for Autumn 2011. Although I tried hard to have fewer speaking engagements during the winter and spring, there are quite a few events that

I was very pleased to get an email last night notifying me that my session proposal has been accepted for Clojure/West in March! Due to the number of high-quality submissions, I'll get a 25 minute slot instead of a 50 minute slot so that'll be quite a cha[...]

In preparation for CodeMash, I've been writing some more async code and decompiling it with Reflector. This time I'm using the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview - the version which installs alongside Visual Studio 2010 under Windows 7. (Don't ask me abou[...]

The F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group will be starting 2012 with a code Kata on Thursday January 26th at 6:30pm at Skills Matter.   Kata The term Kata comes from martial arts. A code Kata is a short programming exercise for practicing an aspect of so[...]

In C#, you can use the object/collection initialization syntax like this: The F# equivalent of object initialization is done like this: As for collection initialization, you have a far more diverse range of tools available to you, for example: You can als[...]

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 sourc[...]

Well I finally did it, I moved my blog from Wordpress to Octopress, what drove me to make this move? Well, there were a few factors involved… I found the following problems and frustrations with Wordpress: Changing a Wordpress theme is somewhat of a b[...]

If you’re reading this post, you probably know about F#’s Units of Measure already, it’s very useful when working with real-world units and adds extra safety to code that needs to work with and convert from one unit to another. Here’s a quick snippet that[...]