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I'm very pleased to announce that Expert F# 2.0 is now heading to the printing presses! Expert F#...

Author: dsyme Date: 05/27/2010

Readers of this blog will know that I sometimes post links to jobs as a service to the F# community....

Author: dsyme Date: 05/12/2010

[ Note, if you want to use the free download of F# 2.0, you should use the August 2010 release of...

Author: dsyme Date: 04/12/2010

It is with sadness that I mention the death of Professor Robin Milner, the great British computer...

Author: dsyme Date: 03/31/2010

CALL FOR PAPERS 22nd Symposium on Implementation and Applications of Functional Languages (IFL...

Author: dsyme Date: 03/25/2010

We are now seeking applications for a contract position with the F# team! Contract length: 6 months...

Author: dsyme Date: 03/09/2010

Adam Getchell asked where print_endline and friends went in the latest release of the F# Power Pack,...

Author: dsyme Date: 02/18/2010

Carolyn Miller has just started an F# London Users Group on Meetup, with a good number of initial...

Author: dsyme Date: 02/10/2010

Today we have announced the February 2010 release of the F# language. The detailed release notes for...

Author: dsyme Date: 02/10/2010

[ NOTE: Please uninstall any older version of F# before installing VS 2010 RC. If you don't, you...

Author: dsyme Date: 02/10/2010

There is an F# tutorial and an F# talk today at TechDays, Paris, presented jointly with Adam Granicz...

Author: dsyme Date: 02/08/2010

I'll be giving a talk at UW in Seattle on Thursday, Jan 28, this week. Hope to see you there! Don...

Author: dsyme Date: 01/25/2010

I'll be giving a seminar tomorrow, Tuesday, at Berkeley, visitng Benjamin Hindman and Rastislav...

Author: dsyme Date: 01/25/2010

In this post we will look at a common async design pattern I call Reporting Progress With Events....

Author: dsyme Date: 01/10/2010

F# is both a parallel and a reactive language. By this we mean that running F# programs can have...

Author: dsyme Date: 01/09/2010

Programming F# is out! (Well, it has been out for a while, but I forgot to blog about it!) This is...

Author: dsyme Date: 01/08/2010

The demos in my F# talks use a number of coding snippets to acquire, generate and display data...

Author: dsyme Date: 01/08/2010

Mingtian Ni asked the following: I ‘d like to change the output format for certain types, especially...

Author: dsyme Date: 01/08/2010

In September 2009 I posted the slides and code for the F# tutorial at JAOO 2009. I've now updated...

Author: dsyme Date: 01/04/2010

Adam Granicz dropped me a note today to say the latest release of WebSharper is out... Enjoy!...

Author: dsyme Date: 12/23/2009

One of my colleagues at MSR Cambridge, Satnam Singh, has written his very first blog entry, and what...

Author: dsyme Date: 12/15/2009

Joh has a nice blog describing the basics of compiling F# code for the XBox 360, including the magic...

Author: dsyme Date: 12/13/2009

My co-author on Expert F#, Adam Granicz, has been leading Intellifactory to develop the F#-based...

Author: dsyme Date: 12/08/2009

Are you interested in using probabilistic techniques to analyze online data and build new social...

Author: dsyme Date: 11/27/2009

I've just discovered Julien's great blog series on algorithmic programming in F#, a very useful...

Author: dsyme Date: 11/08/2009

F# 1.9.7 introduces two new constraints to the F# language to help uncover issues in your code when...

Author: dsyme Date: 11/08/2009

The F# 1.9.7 Language Specification is now available, in PDF and HTML, matching the recent release...

Author: dsyme Date: 11/04/2009

Jon Harrop has a new book out, called F# for Techncial Computing. To quote: Read this full-color...

Author: dsyme Date: 10/23/2009

I notice that two good open source .NET math projects, dnAnalytics and Iridium, are in the process...

Author: dsyme Date: 10/23/2009

Brian has blogged about some of the smaller features in the latest release of F# which weren't...

Author: dsyme Date: 10/21/2009

The latest release of F# is now out! This is included in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 , released today...

Author: dsyme Date: 10/19/2009

(These notes apply to the F# October 2009 CTP update and Visual Studio 2010 Beta2) Summary Release...

Author: dsyme Date: 10/19/2009

Soma has a nice blog post on F# in Visual Studio 2010 With Visual Studio, we strive to give your...

Author: dsyme Date: 10/13/2009

I've had a few reports of people having issues downloading the F# tutorial code and slides from my...

Author: dsyme Date: 10/12/2009

[ The attached tutorial code has now been updated for the F# Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 release (with...

Author: dsyme Date: 10/10/2009

Over the last few years the F# team at Microsoft have been very glad to work with the Credit Suisse...

Author: dsyme Date: 09/22/2009

Just to mention that I'll be giving a keynote lecture at the Eclipse Summit in Ludwigsburg, Germany...

Author: dsyme Date: 09/18/2009

I’m excited to be giving a tutorial, a presentation and a panel at JAOO 2009 in Aarhus in early...

Author: dsyme Date: 09/18/2009

The main announcement for this release is here. Summary Release F# is integrated into Visual Studio...

Author: dsyme Date: 05/20/2009

The F# team are thrilled to announce that Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 is now available , including the...

Author: dsyme Date: 05/20/2009

CUFP is a workshop for presenting case studies in commercial uses of functional programming. Run...

Author: dsyme Date: 03/29/2009

I’ve a busy week ahead! Tuesday (tomorrow!), 10am: Informal talk at Chalmers University, Göteborg:...

Author: dsyme Date: 03/23/2009

The Maestro team are a Microsoft incubation group looking at Isolation, Agents and Message Passing...

Author: dsyme Date: 02/27/2009

Brian has two very nice posts on the basic syntax of F#. The basic syntax of F# - keywords and...

Author: dsyme Date: 02/27/2009

Matt has a lovely post showing how to define parallel sequences in F#: In many of my presentations...

Author: dsyme Date: 02/27/2009

Some members of the Dynamics NAV team have announced NaturalSpec, a DSL/language/tool/methodology...

Author: dsyme Date: 02/27/2009

When Luca Bolognese does a 2.0 release, he only fixes one bug - amazing! If you take a look at the...

Author: dsyme Date: 02/27/2009

Stephan has updated FParsec, the parser combinator library for F#. A new version of FParsec (v....

Author: dsyme Date: 02/27/2009

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