One of the cool new features introduced by HTML5 is the new <canvas> tag, which defines an area for you to draw graphics on using javascript. Basics To create a canvas element is as easy as inserting a <canvas> tag like this: Typically you will give it an ID as you will need to look [...]

As I go through the HTML5 spec, I find some useful new feature just about everywhere, and the new contenteditable attribute is certainly one of those. It’s supported by most elements and provides a simple and yet effective way for you to allow the users to edit user contents (blog posts for instance) inline as [...]

HTML5 includes two new ways to store data on the client – local storage and session storage. Local storage has no time limit on how long the data should be kept around, session storage on the other hand (as the name suggests) stores data for only one session. Traditionally you can store data on the [...]

WebSharper sitelets provide the essential mechanism to encapsulate entire websites as F# values. In this talk, I will present how you can use sitelets to develop dynamic, template-based, markup-less web applications with WebSharper that seamlessly combine client and server-side functionality, and briefly discuss the tooling around this automation.

I am proud to announce the availability of the third F# book that I coauthored, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six-in-One by Wrox.