Tonight at Functional Londoners: More ML Hands-on

Tonight at the F#unctional Londoners meetup:, 6:30pm, SkillsMatter, London: In this regular meetup we'll take on one or more programming challenges in F#. All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert. This month we'll go hands on with a Machine Learning introduction in F# using sample data from Kaggle to predict who lives and who … Continue reading Tonight at Functional Londoners: More ML Hands-on →

F# London Meetup this Thursday: F# on iPad and iPhone in Xamarin Studio with Neil Danson

In April, at the Xamarin Evolve conference, Xamarin announced support for the F# language as part of the Xamarin tools for iOS and Android app programming. Microsoft were Platinum sponsors of Xamarin Evolve. This Thursday at the F#unctional Londoners' Meetup we have Neil Danson on F# on iPad and iPhone in Xamarin Studio. Neil Danson will … Continue reading F# London Meetup this Thursday: F# on iPad and iPhone in Xamarin Studio with Neil Danson →

Tonight at the F# New York City Meetup: F# MVC for WPF with Dmitry Morozov

Tonight (actually in about half an hour) Dmitry Morozov will be talking at the F# New York City Meetup on F# MVC for WPF. F# is known as a great language to express complex algorithms, crunch numbers and process all kinds of data. Have you ever wondered if it can be effectively used for such … Continue reading Tonight at the F# New York City Meetup: F# MVC for WPF with Dmitry Morozov →

On Today: Online Event: Rachel Reese – Getting Started with F#

Late notice, but just to mention that Rachel Reese is giving an online session "Getting Started with F#" in about 90 minutes time! https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=M2JSRZ&role=attend&pw=NJ%22%256gC%21x When: Tuesday, Apr 16, 2013 12:00 PM (EDT)In this talk, we'll go over the fundamental concepts of F#, and functional programming in general; you'll get up to speed on the benefits … Continue reading On Today: Online Event: Rachel Reese – Getting Started with F# →

Learn F# – Hands On: This Thursday, London F# Meetup

For those in the London area, there is a "Learn F# Hands On" session this Thursday evening at the London F# Meetup. All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert. In this regular meetup we'll take on one or more programming challenges in F#. All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert. This … Continue reading Learn F# – Hands On: This Thursday, London F# Meetup →

Thursday at F# London Meetup: The F# 3.0 SQL Server Type Provider – Very Cool, and Very Useful, plus F# 3.0 Dynamics CRM Type Provider

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 walkthough of F# 3.0's SQL Server Type … Continue reading Thursday at F# London Meetup: The F# 3.0 SQL Server Type Provider – Very Cool, and Very Useful, plus F# 3.0 Dynamics CRM Type Provider →

F# Community Code Sprint this Saturday in London

The London F# community are holding an F# Community Code Sprint this Saturday in London. Informal and fun! Why code sprints ? You want to learn about F#, not just by the book, but by getting the expert’s trick as well ? You already know F# and would like to help the community, but … Continue reading F# Community Code Sprint this Saturday in London →

Tonight at The SF Bay Area F# Meetup: “Functional Data Structures: Practical F# Applications”

Tonight, 6:30pm, at The SF Bay Area F# Meetup: "Functional Data Structures: Practical F# Applications" with the wonderful Jack Fox. Beyond the bread-and-butter singly linked list are dozens of practical Functional Data Structures available to mask complexity, enable composition, and open possibilities in pattern matching. This session focuses on data structures available today in F#, but … Continue reading Tonight at The SF Bay Area F# Meetup: “Functional Data Structures: Practical F# Applications” →

This Monday at the SF Bay Area F# Meetup: Building a customizable business rules engine with F#

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 rules. This problem is particularly … Continue reading This Monday at the SF Bay Area F# Meetup: Building a customizable business rules engine with F# →

MSR Silicon Valley, Tuesday 3pm – Reconsidering Strongly Typed Programming Languages for the Information-Rich World

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 (v-maatie@microsoft.com ) and she will arrange a badge … Continue reading MSR Silicon Valley, Tuesday 3pm – Reconsidering Strongly Typed Programming Languages for the Information-Rich World →

Next F#unctional Londoners Meetup – F# on the GPU with Alea.CUDA, Thursday, October 18, 2012

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 technologies. F# is a uniquely productive … Continue reading Next F#unctional Londoners Meetup – F# on the GPU with Alea.CUDA, Thursday, October 18, 2012 →

Tonight: F# User Group in Boston: Mathias Brandewinder on Bumblebee

The next F# User Group meeting on Boston will be tonight, Monday June 18, 2012 at MS NERD.Register here. Featured Speaker: Mathias Brandewinder Topic: Bumblebee in F# Description: In this talk, Mathias will discuss Bumblebee, an open source CodePlex project implementation of Artificial Bee Colony algorithms in F# (http://bumblebee.codeplex.com). Register: http://fsug.eventbrite.com

Next F# Seattle Meetup this Monday, March 26

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 data-rich analytical programming, allowing programmers to … Continue reading Next F# Seattle Meetup this Monday, March 26 →

F# as a Platform for Quantitative Finance: Thursday, March 22, SkillsMatter, London

This Thursday Adam Mlocek of StatFactory will talk about using F# as a platform for quantitative development at the F#unctional Londoner's F# Meetup! Thursday, March 22, 2012, 6:30 PM The Skills Matter eXchange 116-120 Goswell Road, EC1V 7DP, London (map) This will be followed by a set of lightning talks 15-30mins on F# related topics including Kit … Continue reading F# as a Platform for Quantitative Finance: Thursday, March 22, SkillsMatter, London →

Next Seattle F# Meetup, Tuesday Feb 21, 2012

Seattle F# user group meeting Feb 21, 2012 Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 6:00 PM. Microsoft Building 99, Room 1919-C, Redmond, WA (map) 47.641712 -122.140670 As with the previous meetup, we have two sessions + one tiny program contest: Ryan Riley (F# MVP) : Web Apps and APIs with F# Most .NET web applications today use ASP.NET … Continue reading Next Seattle F# Meetup, Tuesday Feb 21, 2012 →

First F# Seattle Meetup This Saturday, Redmond

The first F# Seattle Meetup has been announced! It will be held this Saturday, on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. http://www.meetup.com/FSharpSeattle/events/49365112/ Sign up at http://www.meetup.com/FSharpSeattle/events/ for full details of this and future events. Don In this first meeting, we will introduce F# and the new features in F# 3.0 and how to use F# in the … Continue reading First F# Seattle Meetup This Saturday, Redmond →

London F# Meetup Group this Thursday: Pacman Kata

This Thursday, January 26, the F#unctional Londoners are holding an event to help you improve your F# coding skills! (This event may or may not be in celebration of Australia Day and India's Republic Day - you decide!) This event will be a coding kata. If you don't know what this is, here's the … Continue reading London F# Meetup Group this Thursday: Pacman Kata →

Announcing an F# Meetup Group in Seattle

An F# Meetup Group in Seattle has now been launched by Tao Liu on the F# team. (It's only just been created, so get in early!) If you're in the Seattle or King County area and are interested in F#, then please join, and help get the group off to a great start. A good meetup group … Continue reading Announcing an F# Meetup Group in Seattle →

New York City F# Meetup Group: High Performance F#, in .NET and on the GPU with Jack Pappas, Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 6:30 PM

Tomorrow the NYC F# meetup group will hear from Jack Pappas. (Note: I think there is a waiting list for this event, but hopefully a larger room can be organized? Or perhaps a repeat of the event?) High Performance F#, in .NET and on the GPU with Jack Pappas, Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 6:30 PM … Continue reading New York City F# Meetup Group: High Performance F#, in .NET and on the GPU with Jack Pappas, Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 6:30 PM →

Progressive F# Tutorials at SkillsMatter, London, Thu-Fri This Week

For those in the UK or Europe, there are a set of F# tutorials at SkillsMatter in London on Thursday and Friday this week (Nov 3-4) Please pass this along to those who need to know. Thanks Don

F# presentation – F# Eye for the C# Guy

Phil Trelford has a nice set of slides from a recent talk in Belfast called F# Eye for the C# Guy. F# Eye 4 the C# Guy

Demo Scripts from the F# 3.0 BUILD talk

[ Note: before using the Freebase demo in the ZIP you may need to remove the "mark of the web" from all DLLs in the extracted ZIP, see this blog post on error code 0x80131515 ] Some people have been asking for the demo scripts from the F# 3.0 talk at BUILD in order to give … Continue reading Demo Scripts from the F# 3.0 BUILD talk →

Tonight in London: Tomas Petricek on Async in F# 2.0 and C# 5.0

Tonight in London For One Night Only The F#unctional Londoners Proudly Present Tomas Petricek on Async in C# & F# Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 6:30 PM The Skills Matter eXchange 116-120 Goswell Road, London (map) Selected By: Phillip Trelford Asynchronous programming is the key to writing efficient and scalable server-side code in .NET as well … Continue reading Tonight in London: Tomas Petricek on Async in F# 2.0 and C# 5.0 →

I’m keynoting at FPDay, October 14 – Functional Programming Event in Cambridge, UK

Both Simon Peyton Jones and myself will be giving keynotes at FP Day on October 14, in Cambridge, UK. Please come along and join us there! FP Day is a new one-day event for the Functional Programming community in the UK and around the world. Intended to be hands-on and interactive, FP day will give … Continue reading I’m keynoting at FPDay, October 14 – Functional Programming Event in Cambridge, UK →

I’m speaking at //build/ this week

As everyone doing development with Microsoft tools is probably aware, this week is the //build/ conference in Anaheim! Session details are now yet up for the individual sessions! Here's the link to my talk: F# 3.0: data, services, Web, cloud, at your fingertips. I'm looking forward to joining everyone at the conference and giving my … Continue reading I’m speaking at //build/ this week →

M-Brace – F# in the Cloud

Nessos Information Technologies have recently given a talk at SkillsMatter on M-Brace called M-Brace - F# in the Cloud. George Stavroulakis writes: We would like to thank you once again for hooking us up with F# community in London. Everything was great at SkillsMatter and the crowd seemed quite enthusiastic with respect to M-Brace and its … Continue reading M-Brace – F# in the Cloud →

New York City F# Meetup Group, July 19: Putting F# to Work for You

The next New York City F# Meetup Group has been announced! Keith Battocchi will be talking on "Putting F# to Work for You" Don Putting F# to Work for You Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 6:30 PM, Microsoft Offices, 6th floor, 1290 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY (map) Abstract: In this talk, you'll … Continue reading New York City F# Meetup Group, July 19: Putting F# to Work for You →

Progressive F# Tutorials, London, 24-25 August, 2011

I'm very glad to announce that SkillsMatter are to host the Progressive F# Tutorials, a two-day event 24-25 August. That's just 6 weeks away! So, get your skates on, register and come to London for some Summer Time Functional Fun, and learning! Phil Trelford describes the event as follows: First, assemble of some of the … Continue reading Progressive F# Tutorials, London, 24-25 August, 2011 →

F#unctional Londoners, July 4: Monads in .Net & F# in the Cloud

There's a huge double bill at the F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group on July 4: Mike Hadlow: Monads in .Net Gian Ntzik (Nessos Ltd.): F# in the Cloud Join us as Mike Hadlow introduces Monads in C# and F# followed by Gian Ntzik on distributing computation in the cloud with F#. Monday, July 4, 2011, 6:30 PM … Continue reading F#unctional Londoners, July 4: Monads in .Net & F# in the Cloud →

New York City F# Meetup Group, June 16, Chris Marinos – Getting Your Func(tional) on with F#

The New York City F# Meetup Group will be meeting this week, on the evening of June 16, right in the heart of Manhattan. Do what I did last month, and take a stroll in Central Park before popping down to this event! Chris Marinos - Getting Your Func(tional) on with F# Thursday, June 16, … Continue reading New York City F# Meetup Group, June 16, Chris Marinos – Getting Your Func(tional) on with F# →

Next F# London User Group Meeting: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 – Andrew Kennedy on Units of Measure

Here are the details of the next F#unctional Londoners user group, on next Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Andrew Kennedy of Microsoft Research in Cambridge is popping down to talk about the Units of Measure feature in F#. Read more about F# Units of Measure on Andrew's blog, MSDN and Wikipedia. This is the June meeting … Continue reading Next F# London User Group Meeting: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 – Andrew Kennedy on Units of Measure →

F# Meetup Group in Helsinki, Finland, Next Meeting June 8

There is now an F# Meetup User Group in Finland. The next meeting is June 8, 2011, in Helsinki. Here are the details, in Finnish :-) 8.6. SANKO-ryhmän tapahtuma: Funktionaalinen ohjelmointi ja F# Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 3:00 PM Mannerheimintie 2 Helsinki Who's hosting? Rami Karjalainen, Tuomas Hietanen Funktionaalinen ohjelmointi ja F# Funktionaalinen ohjelmointi C#-näkökulmasta, … Continue reading F# Meetup Group in Helsinki, Finland, Next Meeting June 8 →

F# SIG – Great Lakes Area – SouthField, Michigan, June 15, 2011

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 Center1000 Town Center Dr., Suite 1930Southfield, MI 48075 Onorio says that the program for the … Continue reading F# SIG – Great Lakes Area – SouthField, Michigan, June 15, 2011 →

Two Day Course: Tomas Petricek & Phil Trelford’s Functional Programming in .NET, 27-28 October, 2011

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 at SkillsMatter in London on 27-28 Oct 2011. Tomas Petricek’s and Phil Trelford’s two-day Functional … Continue reading Two Day Course: Tomas Petricek & Phil Trelford’s Functional Programming in .NET, 27-28 October, 2011 →

Don at New York City F# Users Group, May 19, 6:30PM

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, 6th floor 1290 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY F# 2.0 brings together … Continue reading Don at New York City F# Users Group, May 19, 6:30PM →

F# London Meetup Tomorrow, May 5: Simon Cousins on Real-time(ish) Market Analysis in F#

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 developer actively applying muti-paradigm programming techniques to solve complex problems within enterprise applications. He currently works for … Continue reading F# London Meetup Tomorrow, May 5: Simon Cousins on Real-time(ish) Market Analysis in F# →

Calling for Speakers, F# New York City and F# New England User Groups

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 in New York City … Continue reading Calling for Speakers, F# New York City and F# New England User Groups →

Tomorrow: Skills Matter Functional Programming Exchange, London

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, Adam Granicz, Antonio Cisternino and more. Enjoy! Don

F# London Meetup Group, Tomorrow Night! The F#/C# XBox Live Arcade Game “The Path of Go”

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, The Skills Matter eXchange, 116-120 Goswell Road London David Stern will talking about … Continue reading F# London Meetup Group, Tomorrow Night! The F#/C# XBox Live Arcade Game “The Path of Go” →

F# at the MVP Summit in Redmond

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. There are several F# MVPs, and they are really great representatives of the F# community, especially in … Continue reading F# at the MVP Summit in Redmond →

F# for Non-Functional Programmers with Jeffry Borror (Part 1)

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. The first session is on January 19, the second on January 20. I've seen … Continue reading F# for Non-Functional Programmers with Jeffry Borror (Part 1) →

F# for Energy Trading and Energy Portfolio Optimization

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 what he wrote here. I think what he says is really interesting … Continue reading F# for Energy Trading and Energy Portfolio Optimization →

The San Francisco Bay Area F# User Group, Jan 11 – Map Reduce, F# and Azure: Using Big Data Techniques to Parse Logs

July 2010 saw the kickoff of the San Francisco Bay Area F# User Group. Previous meetups have included Exploring F# from a C# developer's perspective and Erik Meijer on Fundamentalist Functional Programming. The next meetup is on January 11, with Noah Gift speaking on a great topic: Map Reduce, F# and Azure: Using Big Data … Continue reading The San Francisco Bay Area F# User Group, Jan 11 – Map Reduce, F# and Azure: Using Big Data Techniques to Parse Logs →

“How to keep up-to-date with the F# community?” on StackExchange

StackExchange has a useful thread on how to keep up-to-date with the F# community, some snippets from the answers below Richard Minerich's blog is good: http://fsharpcentral.com/. Every week he publishes a very comprehensive "F# Discoveries This Week" post. The forums at http://hubfs.net/ have been active since the early days of F#, although IMO there's enough … Continue reading “How to keep up-to-date with the F# community?” on StackExchange →

Project templates for F# games, libraries and applications on Windows Phone 7 using XNA

Johann Deneux and Giuseppe Maggiore have been putting together templates for F# games, libraries and applications for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) XNA. This extends Dan Mohl's great work on templates for list, panorama and vanilla applications. Like all other templates on Visual Studio Gallery, these are ALL available via online templates from Visual Studio 2010 … Continue reading Project templates for F# games, libraries and applications on Windows Phone 7 using XNA →

Interested in F# in the Washington DC area?

I’ve had some contacts from interested F# users in DC about the possibility of setting up a user group in the area. If you're interested and would like to be put in touch, please drop me an email or comment-reply and I'll pass your contact details along. Cheers! Don

F# at Kiev ALT.NET, December 23th

Following from my last blog post about a Russian form on hubfs, here's an announcement from Ukraine: The December meeting of Kiev ALT.NET will be held on the 23th December at 18:15. At this session we will be talk about F# - new modern and powerfull functional language from Microsoft. We invite all interested. … Continue reading F# at Kiev ALT.NET, December 23th →

Добро пожаловать на русский раздел hubFS (There’s now a Russian forum for F# on hubfs)

Итак на hubFS.net теперь есть русскоязычный раздел. Спасибо Дону Сайму, за проявленный интерес к развитию русскоязычного комьюнити F#. Теперь можно задавать вопрос, на него ответить, поделиться новостью, мыслью, идеей по F# на русском языке. Надеюсь что создание этого раздела даст еще один толчок для популяризации языка, а также поможет русскоязычным пользователям в изучении такого … Continue reading Добро пожаловать на русский раздел hubFS (There’s now a Russian forum for F# on hubfs) →

F# New York User Group Meetup

The F# New York City User Group has started recently, and the liftoff meetup is a week from now, next Monday, Dec 6 Location Microsoft, 6th floor 1290 Avenue of the AmericasNew York, NY 10019 This first meeting of the New York City F# User group will be hosted by Richard Minerich and Howard Mansell. We'll be … Continue reading F# New York User Group Meetup →

F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group, next Wednesday, 24th Nov

The next F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group is on next Wednesday, 24th Nov, featuring two great speakers - Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford. I'll be there, and am looking forward to it. Tomas Petricek: Writing concurrent applications using agents In this talk I will show you how to implement message passing concurrency in F# using agents … Continue reading F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group, next Wednesday, 24th Nov →

Next F# London Meetup: July 28

The next meetup of the F#unctional London Meetup Group will be held on July 28, with Zach Bray talking on Agile Acceptance Testing with F# Using the example of a recent project that successfully added new implied price functionality to a Broker Trading System, this talk will take you through how you can automate your Agile … Continue reading Next F# London Meetup: July 28 →