Just a quick note to say that I have updated the JSON serializers benchmark to use the latest Nuget versions of ServiceStack.Text, Json.Net and JsonFX. I have also included the JSON and BSON serializers from the MongoDB C# Driver in the test, and since BS[...]

Our F# community group of the week is The San Francisco Bay Area F# Meetup Group. I had the pleasure to meet some of the people in the group last week, at their last meetup held at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley. Meetups are normally held in San Fra[...]

Another conj, another three days of awesome. Hundreds of Clojurians met in Raleigh, NC for a single track of leading edge talks from the community. What did this year's Clojure/conj have to offer? Here's my view of the highlights... There were several the[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, It’s time to read Mission Statement and join F# Software Foundation! Now you can enjoy new portion of F# weekly: Blogs & Tutorials Mathias Brandewinder posted “Kaggle/StackOverflow contest field notes, part 1“ Jack Fox blogged “Let’s[...]

Micah Martin has done the Coin Change Kata in Clojure. His collegue did it in Ruby (presented in the end of the Micah's post). I don't like either of the solutions. The Clojure one is almost unreadable - it's extreamly hard to understand what's really goi[...]

It’s time to make first steps to the new improved FSI. I feel that I should start looking for ways to implement something from My wish list for FSI. Let’s begin from #3 and try to find a list of declared variables and functions. Before execution of any pi[...]

Some times you encounter a class that implements IEnumerator without any IEnumerable implementation. To preserve the spirit of the enumerator (basically a cursor) we can just add an extension method that yields the elements. But most of the time it’s simp[...]

Amazon’s DynamoDB is a wonderful product – scalable, durable, fast, with predictable latency numbers unlike SimpleDB. However, the only gripe I have with DynamoDB is that there is no built-in support for a query language, which makes life rather difficult[...]

I have thought about possible directions of FSI development. I have some ideas that I would like to share and discuss. In general, it would be great to make FSI more than just an execution shell. It can become a really powerful development tool. What exac[...]