FunSharp is a new cross-platform open source graphics library, based on Small Basic’s library, with a typed API crafted for the sharp languages, F# and C#. Drawing graphics is quick and easy:GraphicsWindow.FillEllipse(10,10,300,300) And when you ask FunSharp to draw graphics it will just go and open a window to view it for you: FunSharp provides similar functionality to Python’s PyGame, used for developing games, and Processing used for visual art. You can call FunSharp immediately from the F# REPL or bui[...]

Over the years the number of developer conferences seems to have multiplied so much so that there seems to be one on every day of the week. But many of the big name developer conferences charge north of 1000GBP/EUR/USD to attend their spectacles. So why would you attend a developer conference and can it be done on a shoestring? Why attend? Recently Ryan Riley asked that very question on Twitter: Question: why do so many developers go to conferences? To learn? To network? For notoriety? Has it worked?— Rya[...]

This week I ran a half-day hands on games development session at the Progressive .Net Tutorials hosted by Skills Matter in London. I believe this was the last conference to be held in Goswell Road before the big move to an exciting new venue. My session was on mobile games development with F# as the implementation language: Ready, steady, cross platform games - ProgNet 2015 from Phillip Trelford Here’s a quick peek inside the room: Game programming with @ptrelford @ #prognet2015 I'ma make and sell a [...]

This is a follow up to my last post A Fistful of Dollars, where I looked at test-driven approaches to implementing a money type based on the example running through Kent Beck’s Test-Driven Development by Example book: In this run I decided as an exercise to skip formal unit testing altogether and just script the functionality for the multi-currency report that Kent is working towards over 100 pages or so of his book: Unsurprisingly It ended up being relatively quick and easy to implement. Money type Firs[...]

Just over a week ago I took the Eurostar over to Paris for NCrafts, a conference bringing together over 300 software craftsmen and craftswomen: @ncraftsConf A good balance between the software craftsmanship, the DDD, The functional. It was so good #ncrafts Cc @rhwy @dotnetstation— brunoboucard (@brunoboucard) May 23, 2015 The event was held in a crypt and featured a good number of F# sessions: . @CedricRup it's the second time I attend a #fsharp heavy conference in a crypt. What's wrong with us people? @[...]