Upcoming F# Talks
Recently legendary Cambridge research Don Syme presented an Introduction to F# at JAOO Aarhus in Denmark. From what I’ve heard the talk went really well, and the slide deck is a great way to pick up the F# language (or give an intro-level presentation yourself). I figured I’d point out some other upcoming F# talks I’ll be giving as well:
Nov 17-19, Platform Developers Conference (PDC) , Los Angeles
I’ll be at PDC this year, but unfortunately I won’t be giving any talks. You’ll find me manning the Visual Studio 2010 booth talking about what’s going on in the languages space: talking about new features in C#, Visual Basic.NET, and what to expect in F#, in addition to plugging Iron Ruby and Iron Python.
Nov 21-22, SoCal Code Camp , Los Angeles
The weekend after PDC I’ll be giving the same F# for Architects talk, though with some updated slides and 50% more sizzle. If you are in the LA area I’d encourage you to stop by.
Jan 13-15, CodeMash , Sandusky Ohio
My talk Being an Evil Genius with F# and .NET was accepted and as you can tell from the abstract, I am super excited about giving the presentation. CodeMash is an awesome conference, and indoors at the Kalahari resort in Sandusky is absolutely where you want to be on a cold week in January.
In other news, the F# team is still plugging away trying to finish up Visual Studio 2010. We’ll have some announcements coming soon, but in the mean time the latest release of F# can is May 2009 CTP or Visual Studio 2010 Beta1. And, perhaps more importantly ;) Programming F# is finally out! It’s so out that I have a copy of the book on my desk in front of me right now. I’d love to start a book tour, so if any of you know how to get me 10 minutes on the Today Show let me know.
Cheers!
Comments
Anonymous
October 15, 2009
Congratulations Chris on having your book published! I bought Rough Cuts on Safari and eagerly looking forward to the final version to read it once again :)Anonymous
October 16, 2009
Some people (like the author involved) have all the luck to have their copy of Programming F# already. Others, like me, got the following email from Amazon.ca today: We wanted to let you know there's a delay with one or more items in the order you placed on June 30 2009. Chris Smith "Programming F#" Estimated ship date: October 29 2009 - November 03 2009 Oh well, I've waited this long. I guess I can grit my teeth and wait a bit longer...