Let me introduce BuildMagic: https://bitbucket.org/IntelliFactory/buildmagic - get 0.0.1 via NuGet Have you used NuGet? If not, you probably should - with aggressive backing from Microsoft, it's quickly converging to be the default package manager and binary repository for .NET, other similar projects now stand no chance (though they often have more technical merit). Have you used NuGet package restore? You probably should - pushing binaries into source control is wicked. Especially if you are using DVCS[...]

You may have heard that Don, Antonio and I have teamed up again to work on Expert F# 3.0, doing a comprehensive update with quite a bit of changes, and adding a good amount of new material to the book's first and second edition. [more]

To try out something different, I took a shot at writing a pretty-printing module. Of all the papers I found on the subject, perhaps the most accessible is A prettier printer by Wadler. In particular the algebra of documents presented in the paper is very simple and therefore compelling. I tried to implement these combinators in a OCaml. Unfortunately for OCaml, Wadler's code heavily relies on laziness for searching the exponentially large tree of possible printouts and selecting the optimal one by limite[...]

WebSharper has seen a few more releases, the latest being 2.4.63. In a nutshell, you now can: Update HTML templates in sitelets without recompiling the solution and see immediate changes Use VS in Windows Phone 7 and Eclipse in Android templates, taking advantage of more customization opportunities and IDE services such as an integrated debugger Use HttpContext.Current.Session in sitelets and remote/RPC methods Use Visual Studio 2011 Beta, .NET 4.5, Windows 8, F# 3.0, even if you do not have the previou[...]

A few days ago, I blogged about WebSharper 2.4 Q2 Beta, announcing a handful of important changes to WebSharper. Today, we are happy to announce the general availability of WebSharper 2.4 Q2, available from the WebSharper downloads page.