This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2017 series organized by Sergey Tihon. A while back I used the Meetup API to build a timeline of F# Meetup events across the globe Timeline of #fsharp meetups around the world https://t.co/EDf5vvyJK[...]

This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2016 series organized by Sergey Tihon. Last month on November 16 – 17, IDTechEx held their largest annual conference and tradeshow on emerging technologies in California with over 200 speakers and clo[...]

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 [...]

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Following on from yesterday’s post on Disinherited Types where I implement an F# type provider that hides inherited members of a type to let you focus on the useful members. The example was the WPF Button control which contains around 300 members via 9 le[...]