Next Tuesday I'll be taking part in an IEEE Computer Society Webinar about Try F# . Please join us! Register here . Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT / 19:00 GMT (Duration: 1 hour) Try F# is an easy on-ramp to learning F#, a...

Last week, at the Xamarin Evolve conference, Xamarin announced support for the F# language as part of the Xamarin tools for iOS and Android app programming. Microsoft were Platinum sponsors of Xamarin Evolve. Videos from Evolve will be available soon...

Tonight (actually in about half an hour) Dmitry Morozov will be talking at the F# New York City Meetup on F# MVC for WPF . F# is known as a great language to express complex algorithms, crunch numbers and process all kinds of data. Have you ever wondered...

Over on the Visual F# team blog we have an article introducing you to using QuantLib from F# : A Guest Blog in conjunction with Alexandre Radicchi ( alex.radi@gmail.com ) F# is an attractive language to use in Financial Engineering because of its...

Late notice, but just to mention that Rachel Reese is giving an online session "Getting Started with F#" in about 90 minutes time! https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=M2JSRZ&role=attend&pw=NJ%22%256gC%21x When: Tuesday, Apr...

Are you in the US and interested in learning F#? Tomas Petricek will be giving the successful " Fast Track to F# " course on 30 April - 1 May in New York: This two day Fast Track to F# course is what you need to start using F# in practice and to get...

For those in the London area, there is a " Learn F# Hands On " session this Thursday evening at the London F# Meetup . All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert. In this regular meetup we'll take on one or more programming challenges...

The F# Software Foundation's Testimonials Page on http://fsharp.org is well worth a read. They are very inspiring! If you or your organization have been using F#, you can also submit your own testimonials using these simple instructions . They can...

Steffen Forkmann has reported abot Stati-C/AL , a code analysis tool for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Christian Clausen and Bent Rasmussen created a really really cool static analysis tool for Dynamics NAV . For those who worked with the Dynamics NAV Developer’s...

I was particularly inspired by the latest F# Weekly from the F# Community ( feed here ). This edition really shows the incredible range of application of F# and activity in the F# community, from HTML5 GeoLocation examples using WebSharper to interoperability...

The F# community quote of the week was from Tomas Petricek in answer to a question on Twitter, see the pic on the right. What Tomas says is not 100% technically accurate: you can get NullReferenceException (NRE) in F# if you use C# libraries. C#-defined...

I woke up to a nice email from Shahrokh Mortazavi today. I'll quote it, I don't think he'll mind From: Shahrokh Mortazavi Sent: 24 March 2013 08:08 To: Don Syme Subject: dino's talk at pycon This was basically inspired by your work :-) http:...

There's a double act at the F#unctional Londoners Meetup on Thursday night. Thursday, February 28, 2013, 6:30 PM, The Skills Matter eXchange , 116-120 Goswell Road, EC1V 7DP, London ( map ) Title: The F# 3.0 SQL Server Type Provider - Very Cool...

Follow the controversy here: http://www. simontylercousins.net/journal/2013/2 /22/does-the-language-you-choose-make-a-difference.html … and via @simontcousins on twitter ...the one stat in the summary that I find most compelling is the defect...

Are you working with QuantLib and F#? Would you like to share your experiences? I'm looking for people who have used this combination. Please contact me either in a comment, or by email ( dsyme@microsoft.com ), or @dsyme on Twitter. Even better...

We like to say "F# loves R", because we can use R packages from F#, through an R type provider for F# . We like to say "F# loves TypeScript", because we can use TypeScript Interface Definition Files from F#, through a TypeScript type provider for F#...

The London F# community are holding an F# Community Code Sprint this Saturday in London. Informal and fun! Why code sprints ? You want to learn about F#, not just by the book, but by getting the expert’s trick as well ? You already...

Tonight, 6:30pm, at The SF Bay Area F# Meetup : " Functional Data Structures: Practical F# Applications " with the wonderful Jack Fox . Beyond the bread-and-butter singly linked list are dozens of practical Functional Data Structures available to mask...

Twelve F# type providers in action, brought to you with love by the Visual F# team and the F# Community Click on the images to learn more about using and/or contributing to the type providers. All your types are belong to us :)

Thursday night (31 Jan) at the F#unctional Londoners Meetup we have Zach Bray telling us all about FunScript , aka "F# to Javascript, the FunScript way!" This includes a cool integration of TypeScript metadata into F#-JavaScript programming using an...

I'm very pleased to see that the latest and greatest Try F# 3.0 has been released today! Try F# is a web-based tool for learning and exploring F# 3.0, a simple and pragmatic programming language combining functional, object-oriented and information...

The F# Open Source Group has developed a super-powerful F# Emacs mode, including Intellisense auto-completion, errors-in-current-file, go-to-definition and tooltip support for types/documentation for functions etc. This brings much of the power of F#...

On Wednesday night, Keith Battocchi is in London to give a talk on.... Systems Information Programming Made Simple with the F# WMI Provider Sample Wednesday, January 16, SkillsMatter, London Can F# really be used like a strongly typed PowerShell...

Tomorrow I'm at the F#unctional Londoners Meetup at SkillsMatter, doing an informal "deep dive" into the Freebase Type Provider . Kick off at 6:30 pm, The Skills Matter eXchange, 116-120 Goswell Road , EC1V 7DP , London ( map ) Do your home work...

Sometimes in F# it is useful to use LINQ extension methods such as .Take(n), .Skip(n) and .Count(). However, in F# some LINQ extension methods such as .Where(...) and .Select(...) require a type annotation on the lambda variable. This is one of the...