Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell , of the .NET Rocks! show are coming to Cambridge, MA on May 3rd!  Driving a 30-foot RV, the “DotNetMobile” , Carl and Richard will be visiting the Boston area as part of the national .NET Rocks! Road Trip , celebrating the release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET...

Wondering why there’s a buzz around F# and functional programming, and want to know when and how they can be useful?  Maybe you’ve already on board with functional programming and want to find others in the same boat? The new F# User Group ( fsug.org ) is dedicated to learning and sharing practices...

I recently gave an “Introduction to F#” session for the Cape Cod .NET User group and, with Talbott Crowell for the Boston MSDN Developer Conference. (And for those of you in Maine, I’ll be delivering the session on February 19th with the Maine Bytes User Group in Portland.) Here are some resources from...

Next Tuesday, January 13th, I'll be visiting Plymouth, MA to give a session on F# programming with the Cape Cod .NET User Group .  From the group's site: An Introduction to Microsoft F# Tuesday, January 13, 6:30-8:30 PM Speaker: Chris Bowen , Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Location: Plymouth Public...

Though I managed to sneak away for some vacation time this week, it's clearly been a busy time for the product teams. Here's a summary of the recently-released betas and updates with links for more information: Silverlight Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate ( windows | mac ) Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh...