In F#, you can’t overload a let–bound function, and whilst it’s a hindrance sometimes you can generally work around it easily enough since you can still overload members of a class. All you need to do is to wrap the module and constituent functions into a[...]

There are a lot of interesting programming languages out there, but downloading and setting up the environment can be very time consuming when you just want to try one out. The good news is that you can try out many languages in your browser straight away[...]

Framework One for Clojure version 0.2.1 is available. The easiest way to get started is via Leiningen and the fw1 template: lein new fw1 myapp This creates a minimal web application in the myapp folder that can be started like this: PORT=8123 lein run [...]

Developer conferences are a great way to learn about new and existing technologies. Almost as important are the conversations in the corridors between talks and bars after to find out what your peers from other companies are up to. Without them your compa[...]

The first annual Lambda Jam (US) conference was held at the extraordinarily beautiful Intercontinental hotel in downtown Chicago, a few blocks from the lake. Lambda Jam was unusual in a couple of ways: First off, it specifically targeted a broad range of[...]

QCon NYC was the most refreshing conference I’ve been to in a very long time. Perhaps it’s partially because I’ve lingered too long in Microsoft circles, or maybe it’s just been too long since I went to a large conference. In any case, the speaker lineup [...]

The slides and code for my first presentation at cf.Objective() 2013 are now online - Polyglot Lessons to Improve Your CFML: Learn You a What for Great Good slides (PDF) Learn You a What for Great Good code (Github) The other presentations will be poste[...]

Since the start of the year there’s been an F# meetup every 2 weeks in London at Skills Matter, in the middle of the month we do a hands session and at the end a talk or two. There’s always a good turnout and the group now has over 500 members. Want to g[...]

A month ago I posted that java.jdbc 0.3.0 alpha 1 was available for testing and since then I've made a few more alpha releases as the API and code settles down so I figured it was time to blog about the recent changes. Release 0.3.0-alpha4 on 2013-05-11 [...]

Other than noting back in January that all three(!) of my talk proposals were accepted, I haven't blogged about them since, so the only information about them is on the cf.Objective() web site. The session overviews give a fair sense of what you should ge[...]