The Great @fsibot Caper

This is a tale of adventures with bots, clouds and compilers. Not so long ago, an idealistic developer with too much time on his hands decided that coding with F# was so much fun, it should be shared with all on Twitter. And so he wrote a Twitter bot, @fsibot ( https://twitter.com/fsibot ), before the @Wolframtap made that idea cool. And, lo and behold, the people used @fsibot to create great things. After all, what could possibly go wrong with letting people run arbitrary code remotely? As it turns out, quite a bit, even in 140 characters. And so began the epic adventure of rescuing @fsibot from the forces of Evil. In this talk, we will tell the story of how that F# twitter bot came to being, and how (spoiler alert!) Azure and the F# Compiler Services came to the rescue, and saved it from a terrible fate.

Speaker : Mathias Brandewinder has been developing software for about 10 years, and loving every minute of it, except maybe for a few release days. His language of choice was C#, until he discovered F# and fell in love with it. He enjoys arguing about code and how to make it better, and gets very excited when discussing TDD or functional programming. His other professional interests include machine learning and applied math. Mathias is a Microsoft F# MVP and the founder of Clear Lines Consulting. He is based in San Francisco, blogs at http://www.clear-lines.com/blog , and can be found on Twitter as @brandewinder.