This article is an invitation to a number of F# events at the end of summer and during autumn. Aside from F# trainings in New York and London, I will be also doing an F# tutorial at CUFP in Copenhagen.

Thanks to Scott Hanselman, I’m now writing this post with Windows Live Writer 2012.  For all of its miscues over the last couple of years, every now and again, Microsoft comes up with some modest piece of software which really hits it out of the park.  Live Writer is one such piece of software and [...]

Note: Don’t forget to check out Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers. Following on from my previous test, I have now included JsonFx and as well as the Json.Net BSON serializer in the mix to see how they match up. The results (in milliseconds) as well as the [...]

Did you know you can use F# type providers to access thousands of statistical packages from R, with auto-complete and documentation? Those of you into data analysis will be aware of the use of the R system by statisticians and other data workers. The F# community and BlueMountain Capital have created a type provider for F#-R interop which embeds all installed R packages directly into F#, with intellisense.  See the  example below.  This demonstrates the great flexibility and applicability of the F# 3.0 typ[...]

Considering a very simple finite state machine (FSM) such as a code lock which requires you to enter a 4-digit numeric code and upon which will open the lock for a brief few seconds. Such a FSM have two states: Locked and Open. Every time a key is entered it checks the sequence of digits [...]