Azure Mobile Services
Azure is growing at an incredible pace and provides a good balance between lots of great services and easy ways to get started. I recently took a look at Azure mobile services, which seems to be an offering that has an interesting future with the rise of mobile development. So...
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...