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 simple and pragmatic programming language combining...

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, and Very Useful Kit Eason gives us a practical...

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# . This applies when compiling F# to Javascript through...

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 :)

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-rich programming. F# is open source and cross-platform...

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# visual editing to a more traditional (and very widely...

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 before the event by reading this blog series and...

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 relatively rare cases where F# code requires a type...

Microsoft Research Cambridge have a 5 month contract position available to explore appliications of F# Information Rich Programming to some or all of open government data scientific data standards cloud programming protocols such as Protobuf web programming patterns such as REST cross...

This Monday the San Francisco Bay Area F# Meetup will be hearing from Jon Harrop on the topic of " Building a customizable business rules engine with F# " Business rules are the core of business applications; yet, once an application is deployed, it is often cumbersome and expensive to update existing...

Expert F# 3.0 is now out! The book is a comprehensive guide to F#, with the first chapters taking you through functional, imperative and object programming, and later chapters featuring many applied topics in F# programming. The book has been substantially revised and now features additional material...

On Tuesday at 3:00pm I will be talking at Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley ( directions ) on F# 3.0 and the general topic of "Reconsidering Strongly Typed Programming Languages for the Information-Rich World" The talk is a public lecture. If you plan on coming please drop a note to Maria Atienze...

The next meetup of the absolutely fabulous F#unctional Londoners will be one week today, at the usual venue of SkillsMatter . The topic is an exciting one! Alea.CUDA - Combining the computational power of GPUs with the functional elegance of F# Abstract F# and GPUs are two trailblazing yet unrelated...

The Visual F# team have a new blog The F# 3.0 Freebase Type Provider Sample – Integrating Internet-Scale Data Sources into a Strongly Typed Language Enjoy! Don

I'm very pleased to announce that Microsoft Research have published a new technical report related to F# 3.0 called Strongly-Typed Language Support for Internet-Scale Information Sources , (or go straight to the PDF ). To reference this work, please cite MSR technical report number MSR-TR-2012-101...

Over on the F# team blog, there's a new article about Getting Started with Implementing Web APIs using F# and ASP.NET F# 3.0 is included as part of Visual Studio 2012 and comes with a gallery of community contributed online templates for F#. Time to explore! One online template is "F#/C# MVC...

I'm very pleased to announce an exciting new workshop being added to the POPL program at POPL 2013. This workshop is aimed at anyone who loves the application of functional programming (and indeed other programming paradigms as well) to data-rich domains. Please consider submitting to the workshop...

Did you know you can use F# type providers to access thousands of statistical packages from R , with auto-complete and documentation? Those of you into data analysis will be aware of the use of the R system by statisticians and other data workers. The F# community and BlueMountain Capital have...

See http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~psw12/ The Web of Data is growing at an enormous pace. However, the development of dedicated software applications, capable to deal efficiently in information-rich spaces, of which the Semantic Web is one dimension, is not yet mainstream. Reasons for that include one...

If you're writing an academic paper or journal, what should you reference for F#? Well, of course it's up to you! :-) But the topic came up here at MSR Cambridge this evening (after all, it is that time of year - POPL deadline!) Here are some options. I've included a BibTex reference for Expert F#...

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 University of Pisa, on 27th June 2012. Topics...

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 world's best F# speakers. Some details are below...

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 give ways to use F# to write HTML5/Javascript code...

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 Strongly-Typed Programming in the Information...

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. F# Type Providers and F# Queries greatly simplify...