I'll be giving a talk at UW in Seattle on Thursday, Jan 28, this week. Hope to see you there! Don Syme (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Host: Dan Grossman Parallel and Asynchronous Programming with F# CSE 520 Colloquium Thursday, January 28, 2010...

I'll be giving a seminar tomorrow, Tuesday, at Berkeley, visitng Benjamin Hindman and Rastislav Bodik. The talk will be from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm - room 320 in Soda Hall (moved from room 511). All welcome! Title: Parallel and Asynchronous Programming...

In this post we will look at a common async design pattern I call Reporting Progress With Events . Later in this post we use this design pattern to read a sample stream of tweets from Twitter. This is the second part of a series covering basic techniques...

F# is both a parallel and a reactive language. By this we mean that running F# programs can have both multiple active evaluations (e.g. .NET threads actively computing F# results), and multiple pending reactions (e.g. callbacks and agents waiting to react...

Programming F# is out! (Well, it has been out for a while, but I forgot to blog about it!) This is an absolutely fantastic introduction to F#, and is one of the primary books I recommend for people learning F# - others are Beginning F# , by Robert...

The demos in my F# talks use a number of coding snippets to acquire, generate and display data interactively. Some of these little snippets are not so well known, but they are useful :-) One pattern is displaying tabular data interactively using a...

Mingtian Ni asked the following: I ‘d like to change the output format for certain types, especially collection types, in fsi. What are the reasonable ways for this? ... Can somebody give a few references here? Or even better with guidelines and...

In September 2009 I posted the slides and code for the F# tutorial at JAOO 2009 . I've now updated this tutorial code for the F# Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 release (with matching CTP release for Visual Studio 2008) . We've also added some more content...