The current version of FAKE contains two tasks for Xamarins xpkg format. These are already used in Daniel Nauck’s Portable.Licensing project (read more about this project). Sample usage: Thank you Daniel for this contribution.

Pre-release NuGet WebSharper 2.5.2-alpha NuGet package is available and can already be used to build AppHarbor-ready sites. Clone the sample application websharper-bootstrap-site to build your own cloud-based WebSharper site.

"Portable.Licensing is a cross platform open source software licensing framework which allows you to implement licensing into your application or library. It is targeting the Portable Class Library and thus runs on nearly every .NET/Mono profile including[...]

Soon-to-be released WebSharper includes Direct API that will greatly simplifies building tools that compile F# code to JavaScript via WebSharper. It has can work in FSI. We are also finishing some testing on a TypeScript definition file cross-compiler tha[...]

It’s been 2 weeks since we released any new content into the world of Here Be Monsters and for our trappers that no doubt feels like an eternity! So with great pride, I’d like to tell you that the wait is over and that you have plenty to look forward to!![...]

This is a part 3 of the series started in part 1 and part 2. One of the things that …Continue reading →

Recently, I had a few interesting discussions on F# code readability. One argument I often hear about F# is that by virtue of its succinctness, it increases the signal-to-noise ratio. I certainly found this to be true: when the entire code fits on your sc[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Xamarin Studio now has F# addin IntelliFactory is offerring free WebSharper licenses for MVP. Foq 0.8 was released. Canopy: F# web testing framework built on Selenium was presented. R[...]

I got a Pi for my birthday! A great excuse to get back into electronics. After unsuccessfully struggling to get the F# compiler to build under the stable version of mono for Debian Wheezy, I realised that F# programs work just fine if you build normally f[...]

In the previous post “ServiceStack: New API – F# Sample (Web Service out of a web server)” we implemented a self-hosted service with ServiceStack. That service has multiple out-of-the-box endpoints, including a REST one. The next interesting question is “[...]