This Thursday Adam Mlocek of StatFactory will talk about using F# as a platform for quantitative development at the F#unctional Londoner's F# Meetup! Thursday, March 22, 2012, 6:30 PM The Skills Matter eXchange 116-120  Goswell Road, EC1V 7DP, London (map) This will be followed by a set of lightning talks 15-30mins on F# related topics including Kit Eason on an optimized actuarial calculation engine and Carl Nolan of Microsoft on F# Charting.You can post a brief title if you'd like to speak. Please also re[...]

I love using F#’s Record and Discriminated Union types, they work nicely with pattern matching inside your F# code and can often alleviate some of the ceremony involved around creating and using a complex object hierarchy. However, on the odd occasion when you need to serialize them into JSON/XML/Binary format, it might not be immediately [...]

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Last week, I gave a talk on asynchronous programming in F# at QCon London. I used the one hour slot to implement a Social Rectangle Drawing App - an application that showed the importance of asynchronous workflows on both client-side and server-side.