Command line tools should do what people expect. It’s a bit chaotic to navigate how to parse command line parameters since there are many conventions.<ul> A single - to indicate a short parameter, that is: -a Two -- to indicate a long parameter, that is: [...]

I have been meaning to write this post for quite a while now. Since the first announcement of the iOS7 beta I immediately saw the list of new API’s and SpriteKit caught my eye straight away. I only managed to get time to briefly look over the API a[...]

(I've ended up commenting on this issue on Stack Overflow quite a few times, so I figured it would be worth writing a blog post to refer to in the future.) There are lots of ways of converting values from one type to another – either changing the compile[...]

Lately I’ve been making steady progress in porting over Rx APIs over to Dart with stream_ext, and with the release of version 0.2.0 a few more Rx methods have been added to the existing set of buffer, combineLatest, delay, max, merge, min, scan, sum, thro[...]

In a recent StackOverflow question the poster asked about the difference between tupled and curried form of a function in F#. In F#, you can use pattern matching to easily define a function that takes a tuple as an argument. For example, the poster's fun[...]

 A second F# meetup group has launched over the summer - the Paris-based Functional Programming in F# group. Learn how to take advantage of F# and .NET platform to develop a real world functional programs If you are beginner or an expert in FP it doesn[...]

  Those of us in the Visual F# team are pleased to announce that the Washington DC F# Meetup group has now been launched!   Welcome! This is an F# meetup group that meets in and around the DC area. The goal is to bring likeminded local F# enthusiasts t[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News FSharp.Data 1.1.10 was released with a bunch of bugfixes. RProvider 1.0.1 was released with latest R.NET and RDotNet.FSharp inside. Francesco De Vittori works on type inference for Sm[...]

Microsoft has added owin support for asp.net. This is exciting since it can yield different web servers. Why is this a good thing? It could mean that it gets easier to self host a local only web server, that you can host an asp.net site in different envir[...]