I was recently a guest on the .NET Rocks podcast and one of the things that came up was this notion in F# of “if it compiles – it works”. Given the constraints of time on the show (and technical … Continue reading →

You may encounter an error which looks like this: MSB4006: There is a circular dependency in the target dependency graph involving target "ResolveProjectReferences" [MyProjectName\MyProjectName.csproj] …when running MSBuild from the command line. This err[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News “I strongly encourage F# users on Windows to try out RuyJIT and send feedback – VIP it works well for F# code.” Don Syme. F# Milano user group was registered. F# Power Tools 0.3.1 was[...]

NorDevCon is a one day agile and tech conference held annually in the historic English town of Norwich, also the setting for the recent British comedy Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. Last Friday I took the short hop across the Fens to Norwich to talk about D[...]

In order to setup ci for open source targeting c# projects I looked into using travis. There is a solution on stackoverflow. The post got me started. Turns out that there are some problems with using nuget packages for mono using xbuild (Path.Combine in t[...]

During some recent meanderings through the confines of the internet, I ended up discovering the Winnow Algorithm. The simplicity of the approach intrigued me, so I thought it would be interesting to try and implement it in F# and see how well it worked. [...]

One of the more exciting new functional languages of the last couple of years is a marriage of Erlang and Ruby called Elixir.  Besides adding an arguably better syntax with which to program the Erlang VM (also known as the BEAM VM), Elixir adds meta-progr[...]

F# 3.x Query Expressions are a nice piece of syntactic sugar, but they are notably difficult to compose. This article discusses the auto-quoting mechanism of query expressions and how it can be leveraged to implement not-too-clunky composition.