The University of Pisa will be hosting a one-day workshop entitled F# for Education and Innovation on Tuesday 28th June 2012. Please join us there! The workshop is preceded by an optional Introduction to F# Tutorial, run by Antonio Cisternino at the...

I'm glad to mention that SkillsMatter will be running their Progressive F# Tutorials in New York City, 5 June 2012! This is a great opportunity for those on the East Coast of the USA to dive into practical, real-world programming F# from some of the...

This is cross-posted from the F# team blog . Great to see this! Training is an important part of adopting F# successfully in any large organization. There are several options for F# training currently available, but one recent addition is an...

Back in 2007 Ralf Herbrich and co. wrote a research paper called " TrueSkill Through Time ". Their sample code was written with a pre-release of F# 1.0, and was not updated to F# in Visual Studio 2010. Here is an update of this code for F# in Visual...

More F# Hadoop goodness from Carl Nolan . This time a compositional framework for submitting F# and C# Azure/Hadoop map-reduce jobs. Framework for Composing and Submitting .Net Hadoop MapReduce Jobs If you have been following my blog you will...

Do you want to write succinct, type-safe and correct HTML5 web code which is not full of bugs ? Writing Javascript-executing code with F# is appealing for these and other reasons I've gone into before, and the open source Pit and WebSharper frameworks...

The next F# New York City Meetup is now scheduled... Microsoft Offices, 6th floor, 1290 Avenue of the Americas , between 51st and 52nd Streets , New York , NY ( map ) Tomas Petricek on F# applications - From Domain Model to User Interface Wednesday...

Last year, my wonderful peers in Microsoft Research developed the first versions of TouchDevelop, a touch-based programming environment. You can now find out all about TouchDevelop at the one big URL: www.touchdevelop.com and follow them on Twitter...

Slightly off topic... The "debugging options" got turned on in my browser recently. I think this happened when I was debugging some web code in Visual Studio. From this, it's been interesting to see how regularly my web browsing experience is now interrupted...

I'm taking a vacation "back home", and will be speaking at the Big Picture Seminar at NICTA, Canberra tomorrow lunchtime. If you're in Canberra, I hope to see you there, and if you're at NICTA I hope you can catch it on the web broadcast. Reconsidering...

The next F# Seattle Meetup is on this Monday! F# PM Donna talks about F# 3.0 Beta Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information and services. F# 3.0 brings integrated support for Information Rich Programming to the .NET platform...

The wonderful Donna Malayeri appears in the latest F# Channel 9 Lecture on F# 3.0 Information Rich Programming . Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information and services. F# 3.0 brings integrated support for Information Rich Programming...

This Thursday Adam Mlocek of StatFactory will talk about using F# as a platform for quantitative development at the F#unctional Londoner's F# Meetup ! Thursday, March 22, 2012, 6:30 PM The Skills Matter eXchange 116-120 Goswell Road, EC1V 7DP, London...

Over on the F# team blog the Visual F# team have announced the availability of Visual F# 3.0 Beta now available in Visual Studio 11 !! The announcement is included below. This release contains the new features described below, plus all the usual F#...

Seattle F# user group meeting Feb 21, 2012 Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 6:00 PM. Microsoft Building 99 , Room 1919-C, Redmond , WA ( map ) 47.641712 -122.140670 As with the previous meetup, we have two sessions + one tiny program contest...

The folks at SkillsMatter in London are hosting the Functional Programming eXchange 2012, on March 16, 2012, in London! Join the Functional Programming community for a one-day conference jam-packed with talks, open-space discussions and brainstorming...

Microsoft Research Cambridge has available a 6-month contract position for development of web-based user interfaces for designing and simulating computer models of biological systems. We are looking for an experienced and highly-motivated individual to...

The first F# Seattle Meetup has been announced! It will be held this Saturday, on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. http://www.meetup.com/FSharpSeattle/events/49365112/ Sign up at http://www.meetup.com/FSharpSeattle/events/ for full details of this...

This Thursday, January 26, the F#unctional Londoners are holding an event to help you improve your F# coding skills ! (This event may or may not be in celebration of Australia Day and India's Republic Day - you decide!) This event will be a coding...

Just to mention that there will be a talk on F# 3.0 at TechDays France in Paris, on February 7, at 4pm. F# 3.0: data, services, Web, cloud, at your fingertips (LAN209) You can find all the details here: http://www.microsoft.com/france/mstechdays...

I'm catching up on blogging about what's been going on in F# lately. One thing that happened over the vacation is that the F# HTML5/Mobile development tool called WebSharper is now open source, and free for use for open source projects ( details on...

Is it time to learn something new? Training is key to growing F# adoption and understanding in your enterprise, as well as increasing the skillbase of your C# and other programmers mroe generally. Here are some links to F# training courses in London...

At last, Microsoft have released its long awaited Cloud Numerics library!!! A huge congratulations to the Cloud Numerics team (follow their blog!), and I encourage everyone in the F# community to be looking at the use of these wonderful technologies together...

Come and work with the F# group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge! Microsoft Research in Cambridge has open positions for very high quality applicants with advanced computer science skills (normally recent PhD-level graduates or highly relevant industry...

Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I post links to F# jobs as a courtesy to the F# community. I particularly follow those in London, where we have F#unctional Londoners and other functional/finance/.NET user groups. Here are...