Are you a VB developer curious about functional-first programming. F# is a statically typed language built into Visual Studio. It is a multi-paradigm language with both functional and object-oriented constructs. F# has powerful type inference which redu[...]

Intro Focus + context visualizations are quite useful when we want to zoom into some part of a visualization, but are unwilling to give up the “bird’s eye” view of the entire picture. In this case, we distort the part of the visual on which we want to foc[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Vote for F# direct support in Unity3d if you like this idea. CloudSharper Local alpha 0.9.6 was released. New version of F# formatting can now evaluate scripts and embed the results. [...]

Today I released FAKE 2.10 with a lot of small bug fixes and improvements. A big thanks to all of the 55 contributors. What’s new? Support for Nuget Install AzureHelper allows to control local Azure Emulator Several fixes in FAKE.Deploy (#333) Split Dynam[...]

Explicit use of computed? What does a computed expression like this: this.isBusy = ko.computed(function() { return self._isBusy() || self._queryIsBusy(); }); have to do with <div data-bind="visible: _isBusy() || _queryIsBusy()" ></div> Intern[...]

Why does the dog wag its tail? Because the dog is smarter than the tail. If the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog. The phrase wag the dog refers to times when something of a secondary importance improperly takes on the role of something of primary i[...]

I was recently given the opportunity to review the book F# for Quantitative Finance by Johan Astborg.  Disclaimer: I work in the finance industry, but I don’t do “Quant stuff” for a living. I’m not going to review the correctness of the … Continue reading[...]

Someone asked me what the secret type provider I am working on is.  I neglected to tell them, and instead joked that it would be the Don Syme type provider.  Later I reflected that the idea had actually been a stroke of genius, so just knocked this toget[...]

In addition to several bug fixes, the main highlight of this new update is the experimental support for MSBuild as an alternative to IntelliFactory.Build.