Many standard F# libraries and tools, including the compiler itself, are developed as open-source and have a large number of contributors. To successfully build such projects, you need to be serious about your craft. This includes comprehensive testing, using automated build tools, continuous integration, as well as creating great documentation and tutorials. In this talk, I'll talk about what I learned as an open-source F# contributor.
Along the way, we'll look a number of risk-free ways of introducing F# into your workflow:
* How to use F# Interactive for explorative programming and writing code that works on the first try * Using FAKE - an F# build tool - to automate everything in your build process * Writing readable unit tests with F# and using FsCheck for property-based testing * Generating great documentation using F# Formatting tools
In summary, this talk is a walkthrough covering some of the software engineering aspects of programming that have been working extremely well for the F# open-source ecosystem. After the talk, you'll have a good idea how to use some of the techniques in your daily job - but you may as well become an F# contributor!
The talk is for anyone who is serious about their work as software developer - the talk is mainly about open-source and F#, but you'll benefit even if you're building closed-source projects or using other languages.
You should also come if you're interested in introducing F# into your workflow as a .NET developer, because using F# for additional tooling is one of the easiest ways of getting started.
Tomas is a long-time F# enthusiast, Microsoft MVP and author of a book Real-World Functional Programming (http://manning.com/petricek). He leads functional programming and F# courses in London and New York and contributed to the development of F# as an intern and contractor at Microsoft... Read More →
What drives the heroes of open source projects...is it fame, is it a road to an MVP or something like it, what is the actual drive behind all this hard labor? In this session we will dig down and have a look at what drives magnificent people in the industry. It's not always for the carrot in front and it sure ain't due to the threat of being beaten with a stick. It might not be for the awesome reference on the CV, but when we have passed through all the obvious reasons standing out we look at the deeper meanings behind our sleepless hours. We all have a great piece of motivation in our mind...we just need to find it.
Stefan is a developer at Ditmer in Denmark. Since he completed his AP in Computer Science in 2003, Stefan has been venturing around in different domains, starting with catalog building on the web than ended as a PDF ready for print. Since that time he has been venturing over GIS... Read More →
- people wanting to understand how to make money by developing an open source product - the different business models and licence choices with open source software - developers that want to create an successful open source product
Founder of MySQL AB.Original author & architect of the MySQL server.Founder and CEO of Monty Program Ab and creator of MariaDB.Founder of the Open Database Alliance.
