Just four days ago we released Try WebSharper, and here we go with the first feature enhancement: embedding snippets. A huge thanks to Don Syme for suggesting it.

A couple of weeks ago, I came across this blog post by Steve Shogren, which looks at various programming languages, and attempts to define a “language safety score”, by taking into account a list of language criteria (Are nulls allowed? Can variables be mutated? And so on), aggregating them into an overall safety score – and finally looking for whether the resulting score was a reasonable predictor for the observed bug rate across various projects. I thought this was an interesting idea. However, I also h[...]

I had a need for the Erlang build tool rebar for a project I was trying to start on; a bit of pen testing via Elixir.  I was going to pull down the rebar3 script from the site and fix it up for myself and it occurred to me that others might want a way […]

The recent release of WebSharper 3.4 also brought an update to most of the project templates shipped for Visual Studio, MonoDevelop, and Xamarin Studio.

Tweet Quite a few people have asked me about my trip to Tokyo recently and to see some pictures, so here’s a completely non-technical post about my experience there! Hopefully this will help your planning if you’re looking to visit Japan in the near future.   Airports There are two international airports for Tokyo –