I don’t have the privilege of working on F# as my regular day job so I’ve been trying to find ways to employ F# for practical tasks. One way in which I’ve been trying to keep my F# skills sharp is by addressing the limitations of our build process with F#[...]

People a faced with challenges trying to install F# interactive plugin for Notepad++ (example). I am not an exception, going through all of this i want to share my experience.1) First of all download latest version of the Notepad++ and install it(default [...]

after enjoying my winter-holidays for 2011 I’m finally back in action – man it’s good to spent 2 weeks without any productive keyboard-play So prepare for new content in the next few days …

The beginning of a new year may be a good time for writing one lightweight blog post - this article shows two hidden features of F# IntelliSense in Visual Studio and also talks about writing plugins using the F# open-source release.

After reading this old post by Don Syme, I really liked the idea of wrapping the result of any computation into an option type to signify success and failure cases and stop subsequent computations on the first failure. It’s neat but I wanted to tweak a co[...]

Happy New Year, everyone! I'm attempting to make 2012 a quiet year in terms of my speaking engagements - I've turned down a few kind offers already, and I expect to do so again during the year. I may well still give user group talks in evenings if I can [...]

In years past, I have gone back over each month of my blog and posted a review of the year based on what I've been posting during the year. I skipped that for 2009 and 2010 for various reasons but decided to reinstate it this year because 2011 has b[...]

I discovered a memory leak in Async.StartChild and here discuss a workaround based on a Future abstraction. I noticed what appears to be a memory leak in F# standard library function Async.StartChild. This happened in a context of a socket server, whe[...]