Judging from a few questions on stackoverflow and hubFS, programmers new to F# sometimes confuse value assignments with functions that don’t take arguments. This confusion is easily straightened out. In fact, it’s so easily straightened out, that it’s not really enough for a blog post. Thus, we spice things up a bit by letting the [...]

Sometimes, you need to store binary data in places where only text data is welcome, such as XML files. The quick & dirty solution is to code your data into hexadecimal strings, which you can easily get away with when storing a few bytes. However, sometimes you want better space efficiency and this is where [...]