Happy days! Carl Nolan is flying along with templates for F# programming - we now have a Simple Windows Service template up on Visual Studio gallery ! From Carls' blog: This template provides several projects elements: A MyService.fs and Program...

Here's a link to a nice F#-Rx sample showing how to get a very nice syntax for Reactive Extensions by using F# LINQ computation expressions. (If you know Rx users who haven't yet discovered F#, this might get them interested!) open System ...

Carl Nolan of Microsoft UK has put together a nice little WinForms template for F# . You can find it in the Visual Studio Gallery Online templates . Remember: You can find lots of templates for F# under " New Project " -> " Online Templates " and...

Onorio Catenacci and others are starting an F# Special Interest Group in conjunction with the MIGang .NET user group in Southfield Michigan. The first meeting will be at 6 pm on June 15, 2011 at the Microsoft Office: Southfield Town Center 1000 Town...

Here's an F# contracting position at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Microsoft Research Cambridge has available a 6 month contract position in applied language design and simulator development, for work on a modelling environment for designing and...

Tomas Petricek & Phil Trelford are two major and well-known contributors to the F# Community and the F# London User Group. Tomas and Phil have teamed together to offer a two day course on Functional Programming in .NET . The course will be held...

Many people like F#'s pipeline operator and associate it with the language. Like most others I'm a lover of history and knowing the "source" of things. Now, while this may not be the last word in the matter, in this case we think we've found...

Adam over at Intellifactory has announced the release of WebSharper Professional 2.2 . Congratulations to Adam and the team on this milestone release, which builds on F# in innovative ways. You can take a look at the samples of developing HTML5 applications...

Regular readers of my blog will know that I occasionally post links to F# jobs as a courtesy to the F# community. Here's a job description that got sent to me a coupd of weeks ago, through a recruiting agency. Please contact Joseph.Williams@ITHR.com to...

Thanks to a kind invitation from Rick Minerich, I'll be talking at the New York City F# Users Group , May 19, 6:30PM. Here are the details! F# Today, F# Tomorrow with Don Syme Thursday, May 19, 2011, 6:30 PM, Microsoft Offices...

Next week I'll be talking at TechEd North America in Atlanta. Here are the details, and hope to see you there! DEV323: A Taste of F#: Today and Future Breakout Session DEV323 B213 Wednesday, May 18 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM...

Here are some of the snippets on the F# Snippets site related to financial engineering. You can learn a lot from these, if used in conjunction with a regular F# book and/or relevant papers. Get Stock Quote Data and Historical Stock Prices from Yahoo...

Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I pass on links to job listings for F# programmers, as a courtesy to the F# community.If you have a job listing you'd like posted, please let me know! Space Systems Loral in the Bay Area are...

The latest article from The F# Journal is on a topic I sometimes get asked about when talking to people doing low-latency financial trading systems: Allocationless programming on .NET "An extreme technique used in some latency-critical applications...

The contributors to Math.NET have just released their final beta for Math.NET Numerics . This wonderful package includes both NuGet packages and F# integration! From the Math.NET Numerics site: Download the MathNet.Numerics.dll assembly, add a reference...

Tomorrow is the next F#unctional Londoners Meetup ! Simon Cousins will be talking on Real-time(ish) Market Analysis in F# Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 6:30 PM The Skills Matter eXchange - 116-120 Goswell Road London Simon Cousins is a software...