It was the best of times, it was the… Actually, it was all just fantastic. On the beginner track Chris Marinos, Phil Trelford, and Tomas Petricek worked tirelessly in teaching F#. I was thoroughly impressed with the quality of their tutorials and would re[...]

Last week I flew out to New York for the Progressive F# Tutorials NYC hosted by Skills Matter and organised by Richard Minerich. The event was held in the atmospheric Liberty Hall event space at the Ace hotel in mid-town Manhattan, and not far from the Em[...]

I seem to have forgotten to blog about some recent releases of the Clojure wrapper for JDBC. This post covers those recent changes. Release 0.2.2 on 2012-06-10 Handle Oracle unknown row count affected [JDBC-33] Handle jdbc: prefix in string db-specs [JD[...]

I came across this SO question the other day, and I really liked Daniel’s answer as it illustrates the beauty and elegance of F# and functional programming in general! Personally I love the combinators approach, and for anyone else who’s interested to see[...]

Definition of iconoclast from Wikipedia: An iconoclast is someone who engages in iconoclasm—destruction of religious symbols or, by extension, established dogma or conventions. Recently the GOTO Copenhagen conference had a track dedicated to Iconocl[...]

Refusing? As a developer, assume that you are given technology or tool X and told that you need to create Y using it. Sometime it's just getting down to business and getting it done. Sometimes you realize that using said technology is a mistake. It c[...]

A while ago I created a JSON parser in F# just to understand F# Active Patterns. Over the course of year, I have updated the parser as needed and now it seems fairly complete. I will take this blog entry … Continue reading →

A while ago I created a JSON parser in F# just to understand F# Active Patterns. Over the course of year, I have updated the parser as needed and now it seems fairly complete. I will take this blog entry … Continue reading →

TCP has a theoretical limit of 65K connections per machine. I had always wondered how close we could approach that limit. A perfect use case is for ‘push notification’ type services which exist for all the major smartphone platforms (iPhone, … Continue re[...]

TCP has a theoretical limit of 65K connections per machine. I had always wondered how close we could approach that limit. A perfect use case is for ‘push notification’ type services which exist for all the major smartphone platforms (iPhone, … Continue re[...]