WebSharper development gains support for Mono framework on Linux and Mac OS X, and integration with Xamarin Studio and MonoDevelop. The preview add-in is available for testing at intellifactory/monodevelop.websharper

A bugfix release of CloudSharper in preparation for the upcoming remote multi-user server feature.

This is a bugfix release, the most important fix being the fsi interactive features.

This release continues our efforts to require fewer dependencies on your machine before you can use CloudSharper. In earlier releases, various CloudSharper templates (most notably, the WebSharper Sitelet Website template) required .targets files that were part of Visual Studio. This dependency is now eliminated.

One of these days I got a hold of a copy of Concurrent Programming in ML by John Reppy, an excellent book. One of the many virtues: it is the missing documentation piece for Concurrent ML (CML) system, explaining design motivations and giving helpful examples. I wish it was in open domain. Why? Simply to push CML design further, bring more attention to it. It is so much better than what is being commonly used. This is not to say that there is no space for other concurrency abstractions. But the CML has th[...]