Over the years I've been fortunate enough to work on several different projects. F# is ongoing, has several different aspects (FP, OO, async, units-of-measure etc.) and quite high-visiblity, but perhaps the one that was most timely, most foundational...

On behalf of Microsoft Research Connections, I'm very glad to announce the arrival of the "go live" edition of the Try F# website ! TryF# is a new tool from Microsoft Research Connections that enables the learning of the F# programming language...

A podcast of David Stern's recent talk on Microsoft's use of F# for the XBox Live Arcade Path of Go and for Project Emporia is now up. David talks a lot about how to get .NET code to run faster on the XBox, and at the end takes a number of questions...

C# Developer/No SQL Database/F# Contract Many people interested in F# programming are also interested in "big data" problems. Here's an interesting job post that shows how these things are coming together in the marketplace...

Today Nigel Horspool and I gave a tutorial on F# at SIGCSE in Dallas. As promised at the tutorial, attached to this blog post are the slides we used, along with the TwitterFeed and Interactive DirectX scripts used by Don. (For those who have seen it...

Tomorrow night is the next F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group at SkillsMatter in London! And it promises to be a really fantastic event, with a talk using F# to program the AI engine of a truly beautiful game. Details: Thursday, March 3, 6:30pm...

For those in the Bay Area, On next Monday, March 7, Darren Platt will be presenting on F# for Python Developers at the San Francisco Bay Area Users Group . Darren is a world leading expert in bioinformatics. Details: Monday, March 7, 2011 , 6:30pm...

The folk at Skills Matter in London are hosting a Functional Programming Exchange workshop tomorrow in London. Speakers include Simon Peyton-Jones (MSR), Tomas Petricek (UCambridge), Simon Cousins, Matt Davey (Lab 49), Sadek Drobi, Robert Pickering...