Today I'm glad to mention to the F# community an important feature of the Try F# web app . www.tryfsharp.org has the ability to take a query parameter specifying a web accessible script. To see what this can do for you, I encourage you to take a...

One of the things I haven't blogged about much is the great collection of F# projects up on CodePlex . The one that caught my eye today is Soma - a "Sql Oriented Mapping Framework" . (Note, Soma is documented in Japanese - I have seen from Twitter...

Regular readers will know that from time to time I give pointers to job adverts for F# programmers, as a service to the F# community. There are quite a few jobs currently being advertised for F# jobs in the London area, mostly in the finance area....

Have you got a great talk on F#? Would you like to give a talk to the F# New York City or F# New England User Groups? They would love to hear from you! Rick Minerich, Howard Mansell, Talbott Crowell and the other movers and shakers in the F# user groups...

[ Edit: The latest version of FSharpChart can be found here ] I'm just back from giving an F# talk at Microsoft TechDays in Sweden, which was a very enjoyable trip. One of the things I show in my talks these days is the use of the .NET 4.0 charting...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Following on from my last post on Support Vector Machines in F# using Microsoft Solver Foundation , I'd also like to point to Yin Zhu's post on Logistic Regression in F# using Microsoft Solver Foundation . Enjoy! Don Logistic Regression in F#...

One of the F# blogs I follow all the time is F# for Data Mining by Yin Zhu in Hong Kong. Yin's latest post really caught my eye: An Introduction to Support Vector Machines in F# using Microsoft Solver Foundation . SVMs are a statistical machine learning...

Have you ever been looking for a snippet of F# code for converting an object/from to JSON ? For getting a key from the Windows Registry ? For defining Perl-style "?" regular expression matching operators ? Or hundreds of other common tasks? The new...

Over the next few days there is the MVP Summit at Microsoft in Redmond. MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional , a program Microsoft runs for people who share their high-quality, real-world technical expertise with the community and with Microsoft...

The F# team in Cambridge have an opening for a contractor specializing in applying F# to industry-relevant domains. This includes developing concepts and demonstrators of using F# to solve real-world issues in cloud computing, with applications to financial...

The F# Team are Hiring!!! Do you have a love for modern, industry-leading programming technologies? Can you help us take the F# language to the next level? Do you have the vision to combine functional programming with cutting edge technologies...

Those who read my blog will know that rom time to time I post F# job listings as a favour to the F# community. This one is from Lawrence Austen. Trafigura is searching for an exceptional candidate interested in applying Machine Learning to the commodities...

The MSDN docs for F# are a primary learning and reference point for much of the language and the F# library. We really do value & read fedback on the MSDN docs, so please do take the time to tell us how the docs can be made. You can submit feedback...

In a previous blog post I mentioned Simon Cousins and his explanation of why F# programming was effective for his recent enterprise work. Robert Pickering mentions that Simon wil be one of the speakers at the Functional Programming eXchange 2011 on...

The New York City F# Meetup Group is very fortunate to have Jeffry Borror presenting a series " F# for Non-Functional Programmers ". Jeffry recently designed and delivered a 5 day course on F# for Morgan Stanley and the material is drawn from this. ...

We get lots of informal feedback that F# has been great in different application areas. One of my favourite analyses of "why was F# great for my work" was published by Simon Cousins, originally on stackoverflow . Simon has given us permission to republish...

Research Positions at MSR Cambridge Do you have what it takes to join the lab that helped produce the AI vision algorithms for XBox Kinect , which has already sold more than 8 million units ? A lab that leads the way for industry and research with...