One of the recent talks that stirred the blogosphere is the Inventing on Principle talk by Bret Victor, in which he shows how one can do programming with realtime results. What surprised me more than the talk itself was people’s reaction to the talk: I think many developers felt that what was shown was somehow [...]

Having created a back-end using the new WCF Web API, I decided it was time to create a front-end and, not being a particular fan of JavaScript, went with WebSharper instead. Here’s a brief experience report. Source code is, as always, available here: https://bitbucket.org/nesteruk/restfulwebconversation JSONP, again… Before doing anything, I mirrored the conversation data structure [...]

Anyone who has ever played a role-playing game (yes, I admit: I did play CRPGs once) is familiar with scripted dialogues. You enter a dialogue with someone, they say something, you get a list of choices, and the conversation goes on until it ends, with your actions determining what happens next. Now, what if you [...]

Intro Every once in a while we all suffer from the Not Invented Here syndrome. So do I. This time, despite of being able to use either one of available web servers or previously written ASP.NET MVC-like web serving framework, I decided to write my own. My requirements are that the server should serve JSON, [...]

Intro The F# programming language is really fun to work with. It lets you improve your code almost infinitely, not only in terms of performance but also readability. Having finished reading through McConnell’s Code Complete I’ve decided to add some declarativeness to JSON processing code I developed for my little pet project Linq2vk. And since [...]