This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2017 series organized by Sergey Tihon. A while back I used the Meetup API to build a timeline of F# Meetup events across the globe Timeline of #fsharp meetups around the world https://t.co/EDf5vvyJKF using @CodyWebHouse's responsivel sample, the @meetup API & the JSON TP— Sean's Dad (@ptrelford) April 21, 2016 The timeline (circa May 2016): http://trelford.com/timeline/  You can find the source code in this Gist: https://gist.github.com/ptrelford/75[...]

This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2016 series organized by Sergey Tihon. Last month on November 16 – 17, IDTechEx held their largest annual conference and tradeshow on emerging technologies in California with over 200 speakers and close to 4,000 attendees. The show covers a wide variety of topics including electric vehicles, energy harvesting, energy storage, IoT, graphene, printed electronics, robotics, sensors, AR, VR and wearables. Coming from a software background, I couldn’t help[...]

Silverlight, once hailed by Microsoft evangelists, is now dead, crucified by the side of Flash by Jobs when he brought down his tablets from mountain view, and then buried by Sinofsky under his surfaces. But is it really dead? Silverlight certainly seems dead in the browser with Google cutting off support in Chrome followed by Microsoft in Edge. Yet Silverlight still lives on in Windows Phone and Windows Store (formerly Windows Runtime, formerly Metro). Resurrection Back in 2010 and 2011 I made a series o[...]

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Following on from yesterday’s post on Disinherited Types where I implement an F# type provider that hides inherited members of a type to let you focus on the useful members. The example was the WPF Button control which contains around 300 members via 9 levels of inheritance and appears to flout the object-oriented principle of composition over inheritance. Microsoft’s MSDN documentation takes another approach to the problem of making relevant members discoverable by grouping members by type, i.e. all prope[...]