Silverlight, once hailed by Microsoft evangelists, is now dead, crucified by the side of Flash by Jobs when he brought down his tablets from mountain view, and then buried by Sinofsky under his surfaces. But is it really dead? Silverlight certainly seems [...]

The problem Last week most of us heard that latest npm drama where “one developer broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript“. The reason for this huge impact was that all of these projects (even infrastructure critical projects[...]

Var, View, Lens, ListModel in UI.NextLast week I needed to make a two way binding for a record with nested lists. More precisely, I needed to observe all changes on this record. This changes included normal members but also lists and I needed to observe c[...]

Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code. If you enjoy read­ing these exer­cises then please buy Crista’s book to sup­port her work. Following on from the last post, we will look at the Actors style today.   Style 28 – Actors[...]

Obviously I’d normally ask developer questions on Stack Overflow but in this case, it feels like the answers may be at least somewhat opinion-based. If it turns out that it’s sufficiently straightforward that a Stack Overflow question and answer would be [...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News What is the burning question for the future of .NET / Core CLR / Mono today? What would make an epic and awesome functional programming / F# side track for you? New docker image is cr[...]

Source code for everything is on Github. It probably won’t be useful to you unless you’ve got very similar hardware to mine, but you may want to just have a look. Background Near the end of 2015, we had a new shed built at the back of our garden. The term[...]