Through Jack Pappas , the F# Software Foundation (the F# community group also known as fsharp.org ) has recently made F# more readily available on FreeBSD . Some details below, taken from the discussion on the F# Open Source Google Group . Since my...

If you're in the Bay Area, don't miss F# for Machine Learning - a Gentle Introduction and Coding Dojo on Tuesday, May 14 at 6:00pm. The F# Software Foundation also have a collection of links about F# and Machine Learning , as well as related topics...

If you're in Seattle, Redmond or the Puget Sound Area, don't miss the Seattle DotNet Startup Group session on F# for Startups . Joel Grus is Chief Scientist at VoloMetrix, where he develops and builds the algorithms for the core analytics platform...

A Guest Blog in conjunction with Alexandre Radicchi ( alex.radi@gmail.com ) F# is an attractive language to use in Financial Engineering because of its functional-first methodology, succinctness, strong typing, data-integration, stability, maturity...

Join our Microsoft Developer Evangelist Team, and Financials Services Account team, at the next Developers and Architects Forum for the Finance Sector. Come together to talk all things Microsoft and development with peers across the industry This exclusive...

[ The CRM type provider sample is available as the FSharpx.TypeProviders.Xrm NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples" to "FSharpx" The updates below are in the process of being transferred into FSharpx package ] Part 1 - The Microsoft...

[ Update: the CRM type provider is now available as the FSharpx.TypeProviders.Xrm NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples" to "FSharpx" ] Part 1 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider Sample Part 2 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type...

[ Update: the CRM type provider is now available as the FSharpx.TypeProviders.Xrm NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples" to "FSharpx" ] Part 1 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider Sample Part 2 - The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type...

Demis Bellot has two excellent articles on using F# with ServiceStack : F# Web Services on any platform in and out of a web server Async, Cached Twitter API Proxy in F# To quote: You now have a fully-fledged ServiceStack ASP.NET application...

We have just released a new MSDN sample and tutorial that shows how to use F# and C# in a Windows Azure cloud service . If you are interested in cloud programming with F# or any other language, we encourage you try out the sample! The sample is a crossword...

If you're familiar with the site Try F#, which lets you run F# right in your browser, you'll be happy to hear that the Try F# team has launched Try F# 3.0 today! You will find updated content and tutorials, plus content that is tailored to particular...

At the Visual F# team, we're glad to be contributors to the broader F# language and community through the Visual F# tools , the free F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web , and the open source code drops of the F# compiler and libraries . ...

The new edition of the Try F# website from Microsoft is rapidly approaching the final stages of engineering! For those who haven't seen it, the new edition of this website is available at http://preview.tryfsharp.org The site is still in beta but progressing...

Our F# community group of the week is The San Francisco Bay Area F# Meetup Group . I had the pleasure to meet some of the people in the group last week, at their last meetup held at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley. Meetups are normally held in...

Our F# community group of the week is the Zurich F# Meetup Group ! Marc Sigrist is the current organizer, and the next meeting is on Thursday, Nov 29 at Herostrasse 9 . If you're in Zurich, I'm sure Marc and the group would love to have you along ...

The Visual F# team are glad to announce that we have now updated the F# Language Specification for F# 3.0 ( HTML , PDF ) The aim of this update is to document the language features introduced in F# 3.0. This update covers the extensions to computation...

When we released F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web last month, we made a short F# launch video available: F# 3.0 Information Rich Programming . The video featured a sample C#/F# MVC4 ASP.NET app named “B-Movie Madness,” which we’ve now made...

There are lots of resources available for learning more about F#. In this blog post, I’ll call out some of the best jumping-off points for learning F# through samples, asking questions, and getting involved in the F# community. Code Samples ...

October 25 and 26 sees the second edition of FPDays in Cambridge UK . There's lots of good F# content at this event, see http://www.fpdays.net/fpdays2012/programme.php Enjoy! Don, for the Visual F# team

SkillsMatter have been running training courses in F# in New York and London and also offer training courses through their well known F# experts such as Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford. Their next course is the Progressive F# Tutorials 2012 in London...

As a software engineer, I am frequently searching my projects’ source trees for various code snippets, or searching a collection of log files for a particular message, or some other type of text searching activity.  The traditional Windows utility...

In this blog post, I show off a number of F# integration features in Visual Studio 2012, by walking through an end-to-end scenario of authoring and testing an F# library. The code itself is not the focus; rather, I’ll focus on the IDE tooling as...

Note: See the F# Open Source Group for the latest on Open Source and Cross-Platform F# As announced by the Visual F# team t oday at StrangeLoop 2012 , the open source code drop for F# 3.0 is now available! This code drop comes right on the heels...

[ Update: the Freebase type provider is now available as part of the FSharp.Data NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples.DataStore.Freebase" to "FSharp.Data" ] Part 1 - The Freebase Type Provider Sample - Integrating Internet-Scale Data...

[ Update: the Freebase type provider is now available as part of the FSharp.Data NuGet package. The namespace has changed from "Samples.DataStore.Freebase" to "FSharp.Data" ] Part 1 - The Freebase Type Provider Sample - Integrating Internet-Scale Data...