It is possible to declare a list or an array without the separating semicolons by declaring each element on a separate line.  Like this: Note: for reasons I confess are unclear to me, the first member of the list/array must be on the next line from the op[...]

I finally finished manually migrating all my blog posts back to WordPress from Octopress for pretty much the same reasons described in this excellent post. I don’t dislike static site generators, but they take quite a bit of time to configure, set up, etc[...]

Most common .Net testing tools work in F#, but that’s not the end of the story. F# adds many more tools and techniques besides, lets take a look at a few of them: 1) Back tick methods F# lets you write method names with whitespace by escaping the name i[...]

I had some trouble running NuGet on ubuntu. I’m running an Ubuntu server. Turns out that you need to install certificates:<blockquote class="tr_bq"> mozroots –import –sync</blockquote> Otherwise NuGet will fail to decode the results when fetching packages[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News FlexSearch (new F# based open source search engine) was announced. FAKE has updated documentations. Do not miss F# Community Projects list. A new version of F# charting on NuGet, now [...]

It’s coming up conference season again, also know as autumn, and there’s a bumper harvest of F# related events around the UK and Europe, here’s a not so short roundup: October DDD North 12th (Sunderland, England) F# eye for the C# guy (yours truly) [...]

The Elm programming language has some fun game samples including Mario. Elm’s syntax is quite similar to F#’s so it turned out quite easy to port the Mario sample and use FunScript to compile the F# code to JavaScript: Use the cursor keys to move Mari[...]

Got asked to compare WebSharper to TypeScript on StackOverflow, doing it here instead. Disclaimer: I work for IntelliFactory and in fact develop WebSharper, so I am obviously biased. Good things to say about FunScript: seems to be entirely unrestricted [...]

I do love the fact that F# (and functional programming in general) gives a developer the tools to make it easy to build simple code. I was hacking together a function to convert a DateTime to a Unix Time Stamp (for using with the Meetup Restful API).  Thi[...]