F# is on the podcasts again! Scott Hanselman interviewed Dustin Campbell who gives a compelling description of F# and functional programming. Dustin also has some fun notes on how to talk on a podcast :-) He's has also started a blog series on F# ...

After a post on Planet F# , I looked around for 5 minutes and here are a few high-paying jobs where F# skills are a "major plus" C++ Developer Algorithmic Trading NY $200-250k CT based hedge fund - OO developer build trading system platform ...

Slightly off topic... The "debugging options" got turned on in my browser recently. I think this happened when I was debugging some web code in Visual Studio. From this, it's been interesting to see how regularly my web browsing experience is now interrupted...

Credit Suisse is seeking to recruit an expert in functional programming for a senior role in the Global Modelling and Analytics Group (GMAG) in the Securities Division. Cross-posted from http://cs.hubfs.net/forums/thread/7066.aspx : The group consists...

On Friday Kean Walmsley posted an excellent article on Using F# Asynchronous Workflows to simplify concurrent programming in AutoCAD .I've quoted some it below. There are two things I especially like about this post. First, Kean's code is very clean...

I'm pleased to announce that the first candidate release of F# 1.1 is now available from the Microsoft Research downloads page. This is build 1.1.0.4. We hope you enjoy it! A big thanks to James , who has been working very hard on this, and also Stephen...

I recently posted a note to the F# list on how to get the effect of typeof(...) in F# code through the use of F#'s inline Common IL. The code I used has now been beautifully explained by Alejandro Serrano (who assures me he is a high-school student from...

Are you interested in working for three months at Microsoft Research , Cambridge, on a project related to F#? MSR Cambridge now takes interns year-round, not just in the summer months. We are keen to attract motivated and well-qualified folk to work with...

Are you currently developing or maintaining a medium to large-sized program written in a functional language, such as Haskell, F#, OCaml, or Lisp? Chris Bogart is a PhD student doing a study of functional programmers, as part of a research internship...

Microsoft Research Cambridge is seeking talented software developers to work on the Infer.NET project ( http://research.microsoft.com/infernet ). Infer.NET is a framework for developing and deploying machine learning and inference solutions. It has...

Microsoft Solver Foundation 3.0 is out, and ready for use with F#: We pleased to announce the release of Microsoft Solver Foundation v3.0. The Express edition is available at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/solverfoundation . The Standard and Academic...

I can't believe I missed posting about this - F# for Scientists is now out! I haven't got my hardcopy just yet, but I read a draft of this book, and was really very impressed. The 3D visualization chapter is stunning in its simplicity and power, the...

[ Note: this particular position has now been filled - thanks! ] A position has arisen within the Applied Games Team at MSR Cambridge for a Software Development Engineer (SDE). The role of the SDE will be to design, implement and maintain solutions...

The one and only Luca Bolognese has released his model .NET implementations of Excel financial functions in F# . You can get it from here . What is it? This is a .NET library that provides the full set of financial functions from Excel. The main...

(These notes apply to the F# October 2009 CTP update and Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 ) Summary Release F# in Visual Studio2010 Beta2 can build applications for .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5/4.0 and Silverlight 2/3. Updated F# CTP for Visual Studio...

I'm catching up on blogging about what's been going on in F# lately. One thing that happened over the vacation is that the F# HTML5/Mobile development tool called WebSharper is now open source, and free for use for open source projects ( details on...

Yesterday Matt Moloney posted a nice implementation of the "Memento" pattern , which implements an undo/redo stack. Significant pieces are The state is held in an agent . This is not 100% needed, but makes for a nice example of using agents in this...

A customer case study in the use of F# has been made available on www.microsoft.com . Enjoy! Don P.S. The company in question has a policy of anonymity, a common restriction in this sector. Financial Services Firm Banking Firm Uses Functional...

F# 1.9 is seeing the rollout of a number of additions to the F# language, and this is the first of a series of blog entries on these. For starters, the 1.9.2 release has seen the addition of "use" bindings. Here is a simple example: let writePlayList...

We've posted a minor update to version 1.9.4 (called 1.9.4.19). The change notice is in the README and below. There are three fixes/changes in this release Ø There was a glitch that prevented F# version 1.9.4.17 programs working well on Mono. A workarounds...

I'm glad to report that Robert Pickering's book Foundations of F# will be out soon. I'll be writing more on this soon - it was a pleasure to work with Robert and Jim Huddleston as technical editor on this book, and I'm sure you will find it a great entry...

[ Note - Applications for the contract position have now closed - thanks! ] I meant to put this on my blog a while back, but it's not too late yet. Basically, we have a six month contract position available at the wonderful place where I work, the Microsoft...

[ Update: Luca says the jobs are now filled ] Luca Bolognese at Credit Suisse reports that they are now looking to hire 6 F# programmers to work on the new generation of trader tools in London and New York. I’ve had the pleasure of interacting...

Luke Hoban is now full time as program manager on F#, and has just posted a short introduction about himself and the language : ...As of a few weeks ago, I've traded in my C# Compiler PM role for the newly created F# PM job! As you can probably...

Greg Neverov (of active patterns fame) has placed an implementation of Software Transactional Memory for F# up on hubFS . Here's the description: I have written a library for using software transactional memory in F#. The library exposes memory...