Don Syme's WebLog on F# and Related Topics
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...
Author: dsyme Date: 06/02/2011
Simple F# ViewModel for Silverlight MVVM
The wonderful F# Snippets community site continues to be a source of great inspiration, guidance and...
Author: dsyme Date: 06/01/2011
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...
Author: dsyme Date: 06/01/2011
A Simple Windows Service Template for F#
Happy days! Carl Nolan is flying along with templates for F# programming - we now have a Simple...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/31/2011
Nice F# Syntax for Rx (Reactive Extensions)
Here's a link to a nice F#-Rx sample showing how to get a very nice syntax for Reactive Extensions...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/30/2011
A Simple Windows Forms Template for F#
Carl Nolan of Microsoft UK has put together a nice little WinForms template for F#. You can find it...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/27/2011
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...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/27/2011
F# Contract Position in Biological Modelling Language Development
Here's an F# contracting position at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Microsoft Research Cambridge...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/23/2011
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...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/23/2011
Archeological Semiotics: The Birth of the Pipeline Symbol, 1994
Many people like F#'s pipeline operator and associate it with the language. Like most others I'm a...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/17/2011
F# and HTML5: WebSharper Professional 2.2 Released
Adam over at Intellifactory has announced the release of WebSharper Professional 2.2....
Author: dsyme Date: 05/17/2011
F# Job: Senior Developer (F# / Functional Programming), London
Regular readers of my blog will know that I occasionally post links to F# jobs as a courtesy to the...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/16/2011
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,...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/10/2011
F# at TechEd North America, Next Week in Atlanta!
Next week I'll be talking at TechEd North America in Atlanta. Here are the details, and hope to see...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/10/2011
Some F# Snippets related to for Financial Engineering
Here are some of the snippets on the F# Snippets site related to financial engineering. You can...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/10/2011
F# Job in Bay Area - Formal Methods - Space Systems Loral
Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I pass on links to job listings for F#...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/09/2011
The F# Journal: Low Latency Allocationless Programming on .NET
The latest article from The F# Journal is on a topic I sometimes get asked about when talking to...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/07/2011
Math.Net Numerics Beta 2, plus a competition for a fast matrix multiply
The contributors to Math.NET have just released their final beta for Math.NET Numerics. This...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/06/2011
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)...
Author: dsyme Date: 05/04/2011
F# Team Opening: Software Development Engineer in Test
The F# team have a position available for a Software Development Engineer in Test. Here is the link....
Author: dsyme Date: 04/28/2011
Getting Started with FSharpChart (from the F# Team Blog)
Here's a cross-posting of one of our first team posts on the F# Team Blog. Welcome to the team,...
Author: dsyme Date: 04/22/2011
A Newcomer to the Blogosphere: The F# Team Blog at Microsoft
We have recently created an F# Team blog. Here's the intro to our first blog post. We'll gradually...
Author: dsyme Date: 04/22/2011
Update to the F# 2.0 Free Tools Release, Corresponding to Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (April 2011 CTP)
We have announced a small update to the F# 2.0 Free Tools release over on the recently created F#...
Author: dsyme Date: 04/22/2011
Microsoft Press are looking for authors to write books on F#
Devon Musgrave from Microsoft Press has just tweeted a call for authors to write books on F#. He is...
Author: dsyme Date: 04/20/2011
Use F# Programming to Win the RockPaperAzure Challenge!
The RockPaperAzure Challenge is a competition being run by the Microsoft Azure team. You can find...
Author: dsyme Date: 04/20/2011
Please submit your feedback on tryfsharp.org. Faculty and students especially!
I'm just been at the Microsoft Research Software Summit where we (Tomas Pertricek and I) gave a...
Author: dsyme Date: 04/18/2011
Loading your own scripts into tryfsharp.org
Today I'm glad to mention to the F# community an important feature of the Try F# web app....
Author: dsyme Date: 04/15/2011
Soma - Sql Oriented MApping framework for F#
One of the things I haven't blogged about much is the great collection of F# projects up on...
Author: dsyme Date: 04/15/2011
Some F# Jobs in London
Regular readers will know that from time to time I give pointers to job adverts for F# programmers,...
Author: dsyme Date: 04/15/2011
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...
Author: dsyme Date: 04/08/2011
FSharp.Charting - Wrapping the System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting Charting Types (was FSharpChart)
[ Edit: The latest version of FSharp.Charting can be found here ] I'm just back from giving an F#...
Author: dsyme Date: 04/01/2011
Announcing the Try F# Website! www.tryfsharp.org
On behalf of Microsoft Research Connections, I'm very glad to announce the arrival of the "go live"...
Author: dsyme Date: 03/31/2011
Video: F# for XBox Path of Go and Project Emporia
A podcast of David Stern's recent talk on Microsoft's use of F# for the XBox Live Arcade Path of Go...
Author: dsyme Date: 03/19/2011
Tomorrow: Skills Matter Functional Programming Exchange, London
The folk at Skills Matter in London are hosting a Functional Programming Exchange workshop tomorrow...
Author: dsyme Date: 03/17/2011
.NET/C# Generics History: Some Photos From Feb 1999
Over the years I've been fortunate enough to work on several different projects. F# is ongoing, has...
Author: dsyme Date: 03/15/2011
Slides and Demo Scripts for SIGCSE
Today Nigel Horspool and I gave a tutorial on F# at SIGCSE in Dallas. As promised at the tutorial,...
Author: dsyme Date: 03/10/2011
F# London Job Post: C#/No SQL Database/F#
C# Developer/No SQL Database/F# Contract Many people interested in F# programming are also...
Author: dsyme Date: 03/04/2011
F# for Python Developers, The San Francisco Bay Area F# User Group, Monday March 7
For those in the Bay Area, On next Monday, March 7, Darren Platt will be presenting on F# for Python...
Author: dsyme Date: 03/02/2011
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...
Author: dsyme Date: 03/02/2011
Logistic Regression in F# using Microsoft Solver Foundation
Following on from my last post on Support Vector Machines in F# using Microsoft Solver Foundation,...
Author: dsyme Date: 02/27/2011
The Wonderful F# Snippets Site!
Have you ever been looking for a snippet of F# code for converting an object/from to JSON? For...
Author: dsyme Date: 02/27/2011
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...
Author: dsyme Date: 02/27/2011
F# Team Contract Position in Cambridge UK
The F# team in Cambridge have an opening for a contractor specializing in applying F# to...
Author: dsyme Date: 01/26/2011
The F# Team Are Hiring! Come and be the Senior Program Manager for F#...
The F# Team are Hiring!!! Do you have a love for modern, industry-leading programming technologies?...
Author: dsyme Date: 01/23/2011
Please Submit Content/Feedback on the F# MSDN Docs
The MSDN docs for F# are a primary learning and reference point for much of the language and the F#...
Author: dsyme Date: 01/19/2011
Functional Programming eXchange 2011, London, March 18, 2011
In a previous blog post I mentioned Simon Cousins and his explanation of why F# programming was...
Author: dsyme Date: 01/19/2011
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#...
Author: dsyme Date: 01/14/2011