One of the areas that I am very interested in is agents and I have been doing quite a lot of work in this area lately. Agents can be used for a multitude of different purposes ranging from: isolated message passing, object caching, finite state machines, web crawling, and even reactive user interfaces.  One of the [...]

One of the areas that I am very interested in is agents and I have been doing quite a lot of work in this area lately. Agents can be used for a multitude of different purposes ranging from: isolated message passing, object caching, finite state machines, web crawling, and even reactive user interfaces.  One of the ideas that I have been looking into lately is agent based scheduling. SchedulerAgent Listing 1 shows a simple Agent based scheduler: listing 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 [...]

One of the areas that I am very interested in is agents and I have been doing quite a lot of work in this area lately. Agents can be used for a multitude of different purposes ranging from: isolated message passing, object caching, finite state machines, web crawling, and even reactive user interfaces. One of the ideas that I have been looking into lately is agent based scheduling.

The Frank application signature is currently undergoing a change from 'Request -> Async<'Response> to 'Request -> 'Response, where the 'Response includes a Body type that is: type Body = | Bytes of byte[] | AsyncBytes of byte[] Async | Segment of byte ArraySegment | AsyncSegment of byte ArraySegment Async | Str of string | AsyncStr [...]

Lately I’ve been taking a look at how you might write web apps with F# using various existing frameworks. Often these frameworks don’t quite work the way you want them to and have small but annoying nuances when using them from F#. These projects are: PicoMvc – a minimalist MVC like framework. The basic aim of PicoMvc is to make it really easy to map an incoming URL to an F# controller function and then choose a view engine to render the result of this function. (github/nuget) Log4f – an F# wrapper for [...]