Everyone knows F# agents are cool right? Well here’s yet another example of how versatile they can be… There was a series of posts last April by Stephen Toub from the pfxteam at Microsoft. I was reading through some of the posts again the other day and thought some of the ideas presented there would make interesting projects in F# to demonstrate the flexibility and succinctness of the language. I thought the ObjectPool example would make an interesting project in F# using agents aka MailboxProcesso[...]

Since we released WebSharper Professional last week, we received ~200 requests about extending prior trial versions that expired. As it turns out WebSharper Professional has been in beta for several months and the first users who opted in to try it were now unable to check out the final release due to expired trial licenses. [...]

Today we are very excited to announce the availability of the final release of WebSharper Professional (version 2.2.x), the premiere web development framework for F# developers, combining the strengths of functional programming with robust and composable web programming abstractions such as formlets and sitelets that unrival the capabilities of any other web framework. This release follows many long months of hard work and sleepless nights and overall signifies a major new addition to the WebSharper famil[...]

Hello again, since my initial articles on Sockets and pipelines, I have had quite a bit of interest and I am now pleased to say that these projects have all grown up and now have a proper home on GitHub. The Sockets and Bockets articles have become Flack and the pipeline articles have become Pipelets.  Flack [...]

Hello again, since my initial articles on Sockets and pipelines. I have had quite a bit of interest and I am now pleased to say that these projects have all grown up and now have a proper home on GitHub. The Sockets and Bockets articles have become Flack and the pipeline articles have become Pipelets.  Flack is named so because I always like to use quirky names for libraries and its original name was a bit controversial, hence Flack i.e. I get a lot of flack about my naming :-) I have been working on c[...]