We are happy to announce the general availability of WebSharper 2.5, and the corresponding new WebSharper site that has gone through a major facelift. I plan to blog about the major individual features in detail as separate blog entries, until then, here is a short list of the main changes.

The annual CUFP workshop is a place where people can see how others are using functional programming to solve real world problems; where practitioners meet and collaborate; where language designers and users can share ideas about the future of their favorite language; and where one can learn practical techniques and approaches for putting functional programming to work.

We are happy to announce that we offering free WebSharper developer licenses to all language and web MVPs... [more]

A while ago I found myself in the unfortunate situation of having a degraded RAID5 array failing to boot after a blackout. So I hooked a monitor to it to see what was going on and found that it got stuck at boot time with identifying one of the disks. After a long timeout, it finally booted into Ubuntu from the attached Flash drive where it reported the degraded RAID array and dropped back to diagnostic mode. [...]