SQL and NoSQL tools as you know and love them with F#
While looking at how you can do your common scenarios in F# an obvious thing to look at is data access. I already covered type providers which are fantastic for consuming data. However type providers won't help you when you need to create data or in other ways interact with your...
Canopy – web testing in 10 lines of code
With my latest dive into F# I recently came across Canopy , which is a really nice and simple web testing framework. It really is as simple as installing a package and writing a few lines in a console application.
Type Providers – all you can eat data buffet
I shortly wrote about Type Providers for SQL databases and services in a blog post last year, and since then a range of new providers have been written by the community. Just a quick search and you can find providers for WMI, CSV, XML, Regular expressions, REST services, world...
Indulging in my love for programming languages
I have started this year spending some spare time with two of my favourite languages, besides C# that I primarily use to earn a living. The two languages in question are F# and Python. The represent two other paradigms from the statically typed and object oriented ones that are...
2012 debriefing
Last year I did my first debriefing. I felt it was a good chance to take a quick look back and it felt good to reflect a bit and do a brain dump. So now I am at it again after a year that has flown by, in spite of some hard moments. Personally this year had a tough start for my...