Steffen Forkmann works as a Software Developer on large billing systems and therefore has great experience in applying functional concepts to real-world applications.
Steffen is a very active part in the F# open source community and works on projects like FAKE - F# Make, Paket and fsharpx. He is a co-founder of the german .NET Online User Group and a co-lead of the .NET User Group Hamburg.
Talks I've Given
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A journey into the F# compiler
Featuring Steffen Forkmann
Compilers have always been seen as fascinating black magic that can only be understood after long studies at university. Since the F# compiler was made open source you are now able to take a deeper look into that black magic, see all it facets and you can even change it.
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Paket 3 – Embracing git for dependency management
Featuring Steffen Forkmann
Paket is a dependency manager for .NET and mono projects, which is designed to work well with NuGet packages and also enables referencing files directly from git repositories. It enables precise and predictable control over what packages the projects within your application reference.
At F#...
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Fake+Paket With Steffen Forkmann
Featuring Steffen Forkmann
FAKE - F# Make is a build automation system with capabilities which are similar to make and rake. It is using an easy domain-specific language (DSL) which allows you to express your build logic in F#.
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F# eXchange Park Bench Panel - Led by Don Syme
Featuring Don Syme, Scott Wlaschin, Mark Seemann, Andrea Magnorsky, Nick Palladinos and Steffen Forkmann
Join creator of F# and Microsoft Principal Researcher, Don Syme for the park bench panel at the F# eXchange. To kick of the Panel conference speakers, Mark Seeman, Nick Palladinos, Andrea Magnorsky and Scott Wlaschin will discuss your burning questions. Grab yourself a beer and a slice of pizza;...
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Accelerate your TDD cycle – Coding dojo with NaturalSpec and NCrunch
Featuring Steffen Forkmann
Test-Driven Development can give you a lot of benefits for your code but also needs a lot of practice. Come to this session and learn how to master TDD with F#, NaturalSpec and NCrunch.
NaturalSpec is a F# TDD framework which allows to express tests in a very intuitive way and NCrunch helps to...
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