This is post tries to explain some of what I was talking about in my talk at weactuallybuildstuff.com, it’s series of two posts, I’ve tried write it as one post but it got too long and icky, so I’ve split it into two. I believe at the heart of Software Development culture there is an identity crisis. I say this because I believe software development to be an engineering discipline, based on science, but many of fellow developers do not believe this. They say it is an art form or a craft. To support my ar[...]

In F#, you can’t overload a let–bound function, and whilst it’s a hindrance sometimes you can generally work around it easily enough since you can still overload members of a class. All you need to do is to wrap the module and constituent functions into a class and overload the class members instead. Multi-Arity Functions [...]

I have been back for about a week now, after nearly three weeks on the road, talking about F# all over the US. The first day I woke up in my own bed, my first thought was “where am I again? And where am I speaking tonight?”, now life is slowly getting back to normal, and I thought it would be a good time to share some impressions from the trip. I am very proud to have inaugurated two new F# meetup groups during that trip! The Washington DC F# meetup, organized by @devshorts, is off to a great start, we ha[...]

First of all I’d like to offer my sincere apologies to those who have asked me to update my benchmark numbers following the release of Json.NET 5.0.6, it took me a long time to clear some of my backlogs and only just got around to it, sorry for the waiting! The good news is that, [...]

In Dart there is an interesting language feature called ‘Factory Constructors’, which effectively allows you to override the default behaviour when using the new keyword – instead of always creating a new instance the factory constructor is merely required to return an instance of the class, the difference is important. Factory constructors allow you to [...]