One extremely useful tool to use with F# is Paket. Paket is a package manager that provides a super clean way to manage your dependencies. Paket can handle everything from Nuget dependencies to git or file dependencies. It really opens up your project capabilities to easily pull in and handle dependencies, whereever they are located.... Continue reading →

In the last article I wrote on writing a code kata with F# on OS-X or Windows, I had wanted to use Linux but things just weren’t cooperating with me. Well, since that article I have resolved some of the issues I ran into, and this is the log of those issues. Issue 1: “How... Continue reading →

More notes on the “Thinking Functionally” series. Previous notes are @ “_______1 |> F# – Getting Started, Thinking Functionally“. #6 Partial Application Breaking down functions into single parameter functions is the mathematically correct way of doing it, but that is not the only reason it is done — it also leads to a very powerful... Continue reading →

Now for some F# hacking. The first thing I did was actually go through a Code Kata, which I’ll present here. The first step I took was to get a project started. For that I used the ProjectScaffold to build a clean project via bash. First cloned… git clone git@github.com:fsprojects/ProjectScaffold.git sharpKataStringCalc …then I … Continue reading →

I dove into the ProjectScaffold solution recently to see where I could get with this project. Just like in the instructions I first cloned the project. git clone Then executed the shell script to get an appropriate download of Paket and related tools. $ ./build.sh On OS-X my first attempt … Continue reading →