I am still toying with the idea of using FSI from within Excel – wouldn’t it be nice if, instead of having to resort to VBA or C# via VSTO, I could leverage F#, with unfettered access to .NET and a nice scripting language, while having at my disposal things like the charting abilities of Excel? Judging from the discussion on Twitter this morning, it seems I am not the only one to like the idea of F# in Excel: @jonharrop @dnesteruk @7sharp9 @dsyme the F# plugin for MonoDevelop & tryfsharp.org can provide a[...]

  The F# Open Source Group has developed a super-powerful F# Emacs mode, including Intellisense auto-completion, errors-in-current-file, go-to-definition and tooltip support for types/documentation for functions etc. This brings much of the power of F# visual editing to a more traditional (and very widely used) text-editor environment, across multiple platforms, and supports F# 3.0 including type providers etc. The work is nearing the end of the prototype phase and I'd encourage those of you who use Emacs [...]

To celebrate the arrival of a new year, we have launched a number of new years in Here Be Monsters. New Trophy System First off, we have introduced a new Trophy system into the game which gives you milestones to aim for as you’re freely exploring the game, not to mention a tidy bit of [...]

On Wednesday night, Keith Battocchi is in London to give a talk on.... Systems Information Programming Made Simple with the F# WMI Provider Sample Wednesday, January 16, SkillsMatter, London Can F# really be used like a strongly typed PowerShell? Come find out! If you're in London, please join the gang for the first talk of the New Year! More details here: http://www.meetup.com/FSharpLondon/events/99561492/