An entity must have a unique identity, so that other objects can uniquely identify it. In an application with one object store, this is not a problem, because the identity usually takes the form of the auto generated identity value assigned to the object [...]

I started writing a post like this a long time ago, but somehow never finished it. Countless posts on Stack Overflow are vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. Along with several other users, I always raise this when it shows up – this is something that rea[...]

Whilst the official rebar documentation only covers usages on Unix, turns out it was really easy to get going on Windows too, even without resorting to installing and using cygwin. Here’s some quick steps: clone the rebar repo in the root of the repo, run[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Enjoy F# chat on StackOverflow. WebSharper UI.Next now has a shiny new website. First wave of samples for WebSharper bindings to WinJS 2.0.1. Taha Hachana shared his first WebSharper [...]

I am joining Tachyus F# team starting next week, and moving to San Mateo, CA. I am both excited and a little sad. During my time at IntelliFactory I learned pretty much all the skills I now have as a programmer. I met, worked with and learned from amaz[...]

Last month Grant Crofton popped down from Leeds to the F#unctional Londoners meetup at Skills Matter to run a fun hands on code golf session. The idea of code golf is to implement a specific algorithm in the fewest possible characters. This is not the kin[...]

A few days ago, I was watching Dustin Campell’s excellent talk from TechEd 2013, “Essential truths everyone should know about performance in a large managed code base”. I highly recommend it, and it made me think a bit more about Noda Time’s performance. [...]

That’s the title of my presentation at Dog Food Conference 2014, 29-30 September, in Columbus, Ohio. If you found my post on "Test-Only Development" with the Z3 Theorem Prover was interesting, then you’ll love this. What if simply writing "unit tests" was[...]