Metaprogramming

The other day I released version 0.8.1 of Myriad, its got some new configuration settings so I thought I would quickly talk about them here.

I released a new meta programming club video yesterday on my YouTube channel I thought I would write a little about it here on my blog too. I recently did a little work to flesh out the plugin interface for Myriad. My friend Enrico Sada helped out with some of the fiddly MsBuild work in dotnet which can be a little confusing at times.

This article is all about F# metaprogramming and research that I did which evolved over time, firstly with a project called Falanx that I developed while working for Jet/Walmart, then later the ideas and concepts evolved into Myriad.

So as promised here’s a post with more detail on the iOS designer provider that I presented as part of my talk at fsharpX 2017 The talk is entitled Expanding the Horizons of Mobile Development

Sit down, strap in, and prepare for take off, we’re going Meta-Matic!

While I was visiting Boston earlier in the year I had the misfortune of kicking myself in the teeth with reflection. It’s something all programmers inevitably go through with reflection API’s as they are inherently untyped, a simple typo can leave you tearing out your hair or punching through your monitor! Yeah there’s things the horizon that will help namely the nameof expression in C#6 which should help in some areas, that’s if your willing to pay the price of using C#, but I wont go into that here :-). In F# we can leverage Type Providers fairly easily to wrap API usages in cases that we are interested in, or even create a general usage with a little more effort.

First of all the title, redux because I’m revising post I started on earlier in the year, compression because this has to do with compression, and Flux, which is also part of the redux, one of the first things I remember writing on the net was an article about Flux Compression Generators on H2G2, its still there too!