The new edition of the Try F# website from Microsoft is rapidly approaching the final stages of engineering! For those who haven't seen it, the new edition of this website is available at   http://preview.tryfsharp.orgThe site is still in beta but progres[...]

My earlier post on how to write a good question is pretty long, and I suspect that even when I refer people to it, often they don't bother reading it. So here's a short list of questions to check after you've written a question (and to think about before [...]

Just a quick note to say that I have made some minor changes to DynamoDb.SQL and released version 1.0.7 of the library to Nuget, here’s a list of the changes: fixed a bug with LIMIT when there is insufficient number of elements using the DynamoDBContext. [...]

NOTE: if you’re unfamiliar with how PostSharp works under the hood, I highly recommend that you check out Dustin Davis’ excellent PostSharp Principles series of blog posts here. The Problem The new async/await keywords in C# are pretty awesome, and makes [...]

I was thinking about how nice you have it in some languages where you can do a case statement for types. Thing is, we have a lot of compiler goodness in C# already. By being explicit about the type and using type inference we can have a generic Case state[...]

I’ve found writing unit tests in F# very productive, with it’s terse syntax and powerful type inference. I write F# tests against C# and F# implementations. Writing tests in F# can be a good introduction to the language and this is something we do on ou[...]

Just a quick note to say that I have made some minor changes to DynamoDb.SQL to: Add support for specifying the ScanIndexForward option(see DynamoDB API doc here for detail) in a Query operation using an optional “ORDER” clause Fixed a bug where when quer[...]