I spent the last couple of nights putting together a simple Markdown to PDF formatter using Tomas Petricek’s FSharp.Formatting project and the PdfSharp-MigraDoc library. To use this library, you can either grab the source from the GitHub repository or get[...]

Regular readers of my blog know that from time to time I post messages about jobs related to F# for the benefit of the F# community. After my last post the lovely people at 15below asked me to mention these positions too :)  They use F# a lot. http://www.[...]

Regular readers of my blog know that from time to time I post messages about jobs related to F# for the benefit of the F# community. I got this message today: A very large F# project at a Bank in London and are looking for a Snr C# / F# developer (up to £[...]

  This post is a very interesting study of the differences between “functional-first” (F#) and “object-first” (C#) design for medium-sized software, by comparing software metrics for a number of C# and F# projects. Here are the conclusions, #3 and #4 are [...]

Scott Wlaschin has just posted a really interesting series on Dependency cycles over on the F# for fun and profit site. The last post shows cycles and modularity in the wild comparing open source C# and F# projects including SpecFlow and TickSpec which ha[...]

Last night the F#unctional Londoners Meetup put on a Hands On Machine Learning session at Skills Matter in London. It was a really well attended event, so much so that we had to put a cap on the number of attendees when we reached 70 registrations. The ma[...]

This week I added a simple tremolo effect to my mini-keyboard project Monokeys. Tremolo is a trembling effect, and sometimes seen in Low Frequency Oscillators. I found an example of Coding some Tremolo[...]

I assist with the face to face interview of software engineers at our firm.  One of my favorite questions to ask a candidate is “What is the most important quality a unit test should have?”  I’m surprised at how many times I get a blank stare; I mean I wo[...]

There’s a fair amount of excitement with the recent announcements of the new XBox One and PS4 consoles with exciting new harder specs and TV features. There has never been a better time to own an PS3 or XBox 360. On the “old” consoles there’s a massive ba[...]

  This Thursday evening at the F# London Meetup we have a Machine Learning Hands On with F#, led by Phil Trelford and others. Venue: The Skills Matter eXchange, 116-120 Goswell Road, EC1V 7DP, London (map)   In this regular meetup we'll take on one or mo[...]