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. [...]

The jQuery Mobile sample on the WebSharper site has been out for quite some time now, but it fails to mention an important detail on how to run it standalone. Indeed, copying it straight into a new WebSharper ASP.NET project produces an empty page (which is not empty, only jQuery Mobile fails to kick in to decorate it into a full application), which can be a discouraging start for anyone looking into using jQuery Mobile for building mobile applications with F# and WebSharper. [...]

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WebSharper provides an extension to write ExtJS applications in F#. But did you know that you can easily use the visual designer ExtJS Architect in conjunction with WebSharper? Here is how.

In the previous post, I discussed designing combinator libraries that compose some property over unions. It is only fitting to throw records in the mix. type U = | A of int | B of float | C of string let UFormat = ( UnionCase A IntFormat << UnionCase B FloatFormat << UnionCase C StringFormat ) |> Union (fun a b c x -> match x with | A x -> a x | B x -> b x | C x -> c x) type R = { A : int B : float [...]