I have tried to find easiest ways to create a simple web server with F#. There are three most simple ways to do it. The goal is to create a simple web service that maps web request urls to the files in the site folder. If file with such name exists then r[...]

Yesterday, there was Alea.cuBase live coding session. Don Syme led live tweets from inside. This post is dedicated to those who missed it. I’ll be live tweeting from the .NET in the City event where Daniel Egloff presents F# for GPGPU quantalea.net/news/2[...]

You’ve read the introduction books, you’ve keyed in the hello world examples, now it’s time to dive deep into solutions from experienced developers working in interesting domains. Deep Dive Like many of you I’m sure I’ve collected a bookshelf full of b[...]

The slides and code for my first presentation at cf.Objective() 2013 are now online - Polyglot Lessons to Improve Your CFML: Learn You a What for Great Good slides (PDF) Learn You a What for Great Good code (Github) The other presentations will be poste[...]

AngelHack Paris is the first “hack day” I have every attended, so I didn’t really know what to except. Early on Saturday morning I found myself in a slightly run down area just outside the “peripherique” road that marks the boundary of Pairs. The event wa[...]

Since the start of the year there’s been an F# meetup every 2 weeks in London at Skills Matter, in the middle of the month we do a hands session and at the end a talk or two. There’s always a good turnout and the group now has over 500 members. Want to g[...]

In this article, I explore the amazing relationship between functional data types and algebraic operations. We will use this relationship to reason about domain model and understand the differences between several possible representations.

Suppose you need to write a script that finds n files, all called based on some pattern, say “c:\temp\my_file_x.txt”, where “x” is replaced by a range of numbers [1..30] for instance, reads the content of these files and glues them together. Suppose also [...]

A month ago I posted that java.jdbc 0.3.0 alpha 1 was available for testing and since then I've made a few more alpha releases as the API and code settles down so I figured it was time to blog about the recent changes. Release 0.3.0-alpha4 on 2013-05-11 [...]

Through Jack Pappas, the F# Software Foundation (the F# community group also known as fsharp.org) has recently made F# more readily available on FreeBSD.  Some details below, taken from the discussion on the F# Open Source Google Group. Since my original [...]