I've always found Portable Class Library (PCL) configuration to be a bit of a mystery. In simple cases, it's simple: start a new PCL project in Visual Studio, select the environments you want to support, and away you go. But what's going on under the hood[...]

This minor release of CloudSharper alpha focuses on a few long-standing bug fixes, as well as the addition of the "Search and replace" functionality in the editor.

I’ve always found Portable Class Library (PCL) configuration to be a bit of a mystery. In simple cases, it’s simple: start a new PCL project in Visual Studio, select the environments you want to support, and away you go. But what’s going on under the hood[...]

Are you an F# user on Mac OS or Linux, looking for the easiest way to develop multi-project F# solutions with full code assistance and type checking? Would you like to use F# Interactive for developing and testing parts of your web applications interacti[...]

This is a brain dump from a Twitter/IRC discussion with @panesofglass and @bryanedds. So there is this brand-new thing called Facebook React and hype wave about Virtual DOM. I only skimmed this library, but here are some reasons why I remain sceptical: [...]

If you’ve ever tried to create an HttpMessageHandler in F#, you’ll have been bitten by the problem of not being able to call base.SendAsync from a callback. The solution is actually quite simple. Just wrap the HttpMessageHandler and expose the protected S[...]

Most discussions about monads, even in F#, start by looking at the well-known standard monads for handling state from Haskell. The reader monad gives us a way to propagate some read-only state, the writer monad makes it possible to (imperatively) prod[...]

Listen here what the great Luciano Pavarotti has to say about F# ;) (Starts at 3m18s. Some non-desktop browsers will take you to the beginning instead, so you might have to wind forward manually.)

One of the more hotly debated topics among software developers these days is adopting functional programming. Those people who ponder these questions have presented good arguments regarding adopting (or avoiding) functional programming.  But the term “fun[...]