The other day my friend Jero wrote an article explaining how to write a Google Function using Javascript. The goal of this article is to do the same exercise but using Azure Functions and F#. First steps First of all, you will need to set up a couple of things. Don’t worry, both of them are free. First of all you’ll need an Azure account. You can create one for free and have £150 credit (and you’re not going to spend a single pound doing this exercise).

When you’re not sure about how to do something, you generally do a checklist of steps to follow. The first day I went to my current client, I had a list of steps: buy the train ticket, go to Kings Cross, collect the train ticket, take the train, take a cab, ask for Mr X, etc. I’m not using that list anymore because I now know how to do it.

Cargo cult is a movement that is found in societies that believe in often-apocalyptic religious prophecies that predict a return to power, the defeat of enemies, and/or the accumulation of wealth. This movement often occurs in colonial societies. The first occurrences date from the end of the 19th century in Fiji, but the most important ones are the ones in the Melanesian islands after the World War II. During the war, both sides airdropped supplies and military equipment for their troops that often shared it with the local population.

According to the Wikipedia, a cowboy (and a cowgirl) is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks. They were quite famous in the 19th century and we can still find them in ranches. Hollywood adapted the cowboy lifestyle to create some stereotypes, both positive and negative. But, in general, a cowboy was a guy with a gun killing people, either because they were bad guys or because they were defending a good cause.

Pull requests are a common way to integrate your changes in another repository or branch in an Open Source project. They allow the receiver of the pull request to easily view and review the changes you made. Pull requests are great, especially when your team is not colocated, but also in different time zones. It seems that their popularity has extended to enterprise projects as well, even when the team is co-located.

On 1st and 2nd of December, the last edition of Conferencia Agile Spain was held in Vitoria. I was part of the oragnisation and both as a organiser and as attendee I think it was awesome (post with some of the internals will come soon). I held a workshop about Event Storming there, which went great. Chris Matts did the opening keynote and he attended my workshop too. In the middle of the workshop he approached to me and told me: “If you want, after the workshop I can explain you how can you join Event Storming and Real Options.

Pattern matching is a powerful and amazing characteristic of F#. Actually, is so amazing that Microsoft is starting to port it to C#. There are different kinds of pattern matching. In this post we’re going to take a look at a partial classification active pattern that takes an argument and returns a value. As its name denotes, is a pattern that partially classificates what you match with it. That means that doesn’t try to define all possible options but just one.

When you have some unit tests developed using NUnit 2.x your FAKE script looks like something like this: Target "RunUnitTests" (fun _ -> !! (testDir + "/*.Tests.dll") |> NUnit (fun p -> {p with ToolPath = "packages/NUnit.Runners/tools/"}) ) But NUnit3 works slightly different. Instead of having a single NUnit.Runners package, that package references some other packages (runner, extensions, etc). One of those packages is NUnit.ConsoleRunner that has the exe inside the tools folder.

In my current project we had a hard deadline: we had to go to public beta on August and finish the transition of all users to the new system by the end of August. When we knew those dates our first reaction was this one: Depending on the environment you work the reaction to these news are usually some combination of a lot of pressure from management, working a lot of hours, drop the quality of your code, hysteria, etc.

A couple of weeks ago I saw these tweets (in Spanish): Hoy en la ofi hemos empezado la mañana con la RPG Combat kata de @SuuiGD que hicimos en el #scpna :-D https://t.co/vsK0OucncD — Xabi Sáez de Ocáriz (@ziraco) June 22, 2016 @SuuiGD @ziraco a mi me flipó tanto que estoy haciendo la versión "Extended".si sigo así, le pongo UI y al store! ;) — Modesto San Juan (@msanjuan) June 22, 2016 As I respect enormously Modesto and Xabi’s opinion and I trust on the skills of a Carlos Ble’s apprentice, I decided to do the kata at home.