What criteria do I use I prefer for the build tool to work on both *nix and windows. I do some of the .net coding on os x. The build systems mentioned here are all related to working with .net (and all except psake work in *nix). If you are coding .net [...]

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A new release of Try WebSharper is out featuring some enhancements regarding snippet meta-data and embedding.

Tweet Update 24/08/2015 : some helpful people pointed out that I’ve missed a couple of other notable conferences here, including: Leetspeak (10th Oct Stockholm) Distributed Matters Berlin (19th Sep) and Barcelona (21st Nov) CodeMotion Berlin (2nd-3rd Nov)[...]

Turns out that there is a simpler way of dealing with optional values in c#. Include FSharpx.Extras to your c# project and then you can do the following: optionalValue.Match( ifSome: value => ProcessValue(value), ifNone: () => NoValueToProcess([...]

Since I’ve been without an assingment I’ve had the time to look into f# more. Where did I find material? fsharpforfunandprofit functional programming on slack stackoverflow Why did I start looking into f# again? I share the office with Fredrik[...]

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As my former boss and mentor used to say, in order to understand recursion one must first understand recursion. This is funny, ha-ha, but if we tweak it slightly we get a really useful statement: in order to understand dynamic programming, one must first [...]

A new Try WebSharper is out adding a couple handy new features and addressing a couple annoyances, making it even more easy to publish your F# and WebSharper snippets.

There’s an excellent and practical write-up on configuring an EC2 container to host a WordPress site here.  But there are a few minor amplifications I’d add.  So I thought I’d write them up here. 1.) As some folks noted in the comments, you should assign [...]