Are you working in the enterprise? Do you find yourself, day-in-day-out, up to the eyeballs in unmaintainable code? Does the once beautiful architecture now more closely resemble a big ball of mud, that no amount of tooling will dig you out of? What can you do? 1) Bury your head in the sand A very popular option, you just need to keep practising denial. 2) Turn to drink Another popular option, although unfortunately this strategy is only likely to last as long as your liver. 3) Become a scrum[...]

In a recent thread on CodePlex Mads Torgeson, C# Language PM at Microsoft, announced 2 of the key features planned for C# 6 release have now been cut: Primary constructors Declaration expressions According to Mads: They are both characterized by having large amounts of downstream work still remaining. primary constructors could grow up to become a full-blown record feature Reading between the lines Mads seems to be saying the features weren’t finished and even if they were they seemed t[...]

With Sergey Tihon on vacation this week, I’ve collated a one off alternative F# Weekly roundup, covering some of the highlights from another busy week in the F# community. News in brief NYC based stealth F# start up Jet.com raised $25 million! MBrace framework is one of the 20 finalists selected by Founders Game How a startup in the real-estate industry uses F# type providers to greatly simplify data access The F# Logo project has reached colour selection: Events This week has seen m[...]

2014 has been another crazy year for the F#unctional Londoners meetup with over 20 sessions already. Thanks to our hosts Skills Matter we’ve been able to hold a meetup roughly once every 2 weeks. Here’s a run down of the year so far and what’s coming up. January SQL Type Provider Deep Dive with Ross McKinlay (video) Ross kicked off the year with a deep dive to his LINQ enabled erasing SQL Type Provider. Following on, in May, Ross left the sunny shores of Southend to tour the east coast with the t[...]

FsiBot is a cloud hosted bot that evaluates F# expressions in mentions, built by Mathias Brandewinder. Underneath it uses the Twitter API, F# Compiler Services all hosted on Azure. In the beginning the F# community put a lot of effort into bringing it down testing it’s security. Nowadays it’s become more of a creative outlet for code golf enthusiasts showcasing all sorts from ASCII Art to math. Christmas Tree Tomas’s tree first appeared before @fsibot was cool or for that matter even existed: @toma[...]