I spent the last couple of nights and put together a small BERT serializer for .Net called Filbert.   What’s BERT? BERT (Binary ERlang Term) is a binary format based on Erlang’s binary serialization format (as used by erlang:term_to_binary/1) but supports a couple of complex types such as boolean, dictionary and time, in additional to [...]

I finally published the first in a series of short, video tutorials describing web programming in the functional paradigm. The first video briefly introduces the tools I’ll be using: F# and ASP.NET Web API.

In C#, you can define an explicit operator for your type using the explicit keyword: In F#, this will look something like this:

I’ve been using a big of knockout.js of late, and while I don’t mind the ko namespace stuff, I do wish that this had used RxJS instead. I know Steve tried that early on and all; it would just be nice to be able to leverage something with which I’m more familiar. Perhaps Matt Podwysocki or Christopher Bennage will come up with something.

[This is the third in a series started long ago on the use of MVC for building web “applications”.] I’m glad I’m only getting back to this series now. I’ve had an opportunity to build many more web applications and have a much better appreciation for the poor terminology used to define web applications. For starters, this MV? business silly. We’ll get to that.