Few days back I got mail from Xamarin about their launch of new IDE. And also for the registration of webinar. And just like always they again managed to blow my mind. I don’t know what else they are having for upcoming evolve conference.. Xamarin is like technical democracy. A company of Technical People, by the technical people and for the technical people. A kinda awesome. Just like their new studio.

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Few days back Scott Hanselman tweeted And I think, I should do that. But twitter is too short and emails boring even I don’t have email ids of few of my favourite Open Source project managers. But I am not shying away from thanking. So, I am writing this entry. Will try to cover as many person as possible who made important part in my life; mainly professionally and sometimes personally too.

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What you feel if you meet your favourite actor? Feeling is wonderful right? Now, add the your actress in the mixture. Have you said WOW??? How about director? Still heart is beating?!? How about having dinner with them? Nothing can be better than that. I am having kinda same feeling. It is nothing new that Nancy is dancing quite comfortable with F#. And thanks to Daniel Mohl we are also having templates to get started with Nancy and F#.

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Sencha is well known framework for mobile development. Not only mobile development but it is doing a hell of a lot of thing other than mobile development. Not only that it is surely having wonderful history with JavaScript framework development. I don’t have anything to complain against that. But today I am going to talk about specifically one framework, that is Sencha Touch. I was trying to something that can developed once and deployed everywhere.

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I have already wrote a blog post about how to get started with service stack if any one is using templates. It is pretty easy. Just install and run. But as Service Stack is moved to V4 with some breaking changes. I had give details about updating it. But still it is little bit more complicated or confusing if I can say. Above is the conversation inspired me to write this blog.

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Few day’s back I wrote a article about how I created side waffle templates for Servicestack. Yesterday, Daniel Mohl, merged the pull request. Add the missing bits make it working and it is up on visual studio gallery. I seriously like to thank Daniel for this work and support even after his own hectic schedule of day job. And a wonderful members of F# community. Here, I am sharing few details of the template, I have created.

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Whenever I talk about Functional Programming people with experience in web make faces. And seriously don’t blame them. Issue is mainly Functional Programming stays in back ground only. If you see any starting example of any functional language is mainly some machine learning example or some complicated algorithm example. And that may effect normal people to getting started with Functional Programming. But functional programming can do far more than that. And that include simple things too.

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Kunjan Dalal

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Functional Developer… Literally!

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