In a previous post on F# data access I dropped a hint about a functional way of handling invalid arguments. The code in question looked like this. let insertLocation city state = if state |> String.length >= 2 then DataAccess.createLocation c[...]

Ive finally been awarded a Microsoft MVP its been quite a long time coming. Ive been nominated for MVP every year since July 2011 but until now I have been unsuccessful. On the 1st of July I received an email congratulating me that I had been s[...]

This is a bugfix release including numerous fixes for compilation to JavaScript in Warp applications.

Over the years the number of developer conferences seems to have multiplied so much so that there seems to be one on every day of the week. But many of the big name developer conferences charge north of 1000GBP/EUR/USD to attend their spectacles. So why w[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News A Complete List of .NET Open Source Developer Projects Become a beta-tester of PrivateEye. FSharp.Data.SqlClient. Dealing with transactions & Data modification “Thank you for your con[...]

Sit down, strap in, and prepare for take off, we’re going Meta-Matic! We’re going to be exploring some metaprogramming magic in F#. Transforming its abstract syntax tree (AST) into another languages AST before executing it in another virtual mac[...]

One of my biggest hurdles when starting with F# was how I should structure an actual application. There was documentation for individual libraries and scripts but not so much for app structure this post by Scott Wlaschin is fantastic, but is at a differe[...]

I’ll be speaking at Lambda Jam next week. Here’s the synopsis: When you leave Lambda Jam and return to work, do you expect to apply what you’ve learned here to hard problems, or is there just never time or permission to venture outside of fixing “undefine[...]

Quite some time ago, I took over maintenance of the Chocolatey NuGet (CNG) packages for both Elixir and Erlang.  I did release new versions of both packages as new versions of Erlang and Elixir became available but I didn’t do a lot of work on either of t[...]