So I want to capture these thoughts while I can for whatever value they may have to myself or others in the future. Last night we did a coding dojo on building Android apps with F#.  Reluctantly, after a little cajoling from a co-worker I decided to add a Google Hangout to the meeting.  NB: […]

So I love it when a very natural use case arises for a feature that I want to practice.  I’ve been trying to better my understanding of active patterns lately and today I found a great use for them. I’m fetching json data from a REST endpoint.  Of course I get back a string.  And […]

If you want to build Android apps with F#, you’ll need the following things: Xamarin Studio (true on both Mac and PC).  I hope soon we’ll have an Android/F# option within Visual Studio but as of today (17 October 2013) it’s not there. F# 3.0 or later (seems to go without saying but just in […]

Thanks to the fine folks at Detroit Labs we’ve been able to do a pivot on GLFPC 2013 Announcing the Great Lakes Functional Programming Unconference! Are you sad that Great Lakes Functional didn’t get off the ground this year? We are too. Super sad. It’s ok though, you can stop being sad now. Why? Well, […]

It is possible to declare a list or an array without the separating semicolons by declaring each element on a separate line.  Like this: Note: for reasons I confess are unclear to me, the first member of the list/array must be on the next line from the opening symbol of the collection. Well, to be […]