A new Try WebSharper is out adding a couple handy new features and addressing a couple annoyances, making it even more easy to publish your F# and WebSharper snippets.

There’s an excellent and practical write-up on configuring an EC2 container to host a WordPress site here.  But there are a few minor amplifications I’d add.  So I thought I’d write them up here. 1.) As some folks noted in the comments, you should assign the Elastic IP address before you install WordPress.  Everything with WP […]

Tweet Note: see the rest of the series so far.   I stumbled across this post the other day and problem 2 seems like something I can easily do in APL since it essentially requires you to interleave two arrays. The problem is: Write a function that combines two lists by alternatingly taking elements. For example: given

So recently I’ve been working on automating some interactions with a website.  Elixir’s Hound library is a great help, of course.  But I also ran across an interesting and unexpected benefit to pattern matching that greatly simplified some code. I was trying to dynamically build a URL to pass parameters. The URL would be in […]

Tweet So OSCON came and went, and whilst I haven’t seen the recording for any of the sessions, the keynotes (and a bunch of interviews) are available on YouTube. Unlike most conferences, the OSCON keynotes are really short (average 10–15 mins each) and having watched all the published keynote sessions here are my top picks.   Simon Wardley