The indefatigable Sir Eel has published a series on the The Windows Azure Training Kit in F#. Part 1 covers building and publishing Window Azure web sites which contain F# code. Part 1 - WATK in F#, Part 1: Building and Publishing Windows Azure Web Sites Here begins a series of posts showing how I used F# to write some of the Hands-On Labs in the Windows Azure Training Kit (WATK). WATK is a good way to learn the basics of Windows Azure development, but all the labs and samples are in C#. I want to show wha[...]

You can now push F#-implemented websites directly to Windows Azure from Git and GitHub! The indefatigable Sir Eel has published a series for the Windows Azure Training Kit in F# and the corresponding "Hands On Labs" (aka "Do-it-yourself training in the comfort, privacy and safety of your own home" :-)). Part 2 covers pushing F#-implemented websites directly to Windows Azure from Git. Part 1 - WATK in F#, Part 1: Building and Publishing Windows Azure Web Sites Part 2 - WATK in F#, Part 2: Deploying an Azure[...]

Through Jack Pappas, the F# Software Foundation (the F# community group also known as fsharp.org) has recently made F# more readily available on FreeBSD.  Some details below, taken from the discussion on the F# Open Source Google Group. Since my original post, I've been contacted by a few people who wanted to try F# on FreeBSD but didn't know how to set it up (or who ran into trouble when they tried). So, I spent a couple of hours last weekend writing up detailed instructions for installing Mono 3.0, F# 3.[...]

If you're in the Bay Area, don't miss F# for Machine Learning - a Gentle Introduction and Coding Dojo on Tuesday, May 14 at 6:00pm. The F# Software Foundation also have a collection of links about F# and Machine Learning, as well as related topics including F# and Data Science and F# options for Maths and Statistics.  Machine Learning is the art of writing programs that get better at performing a task as they gain experience, without being explicitly programmed to do so. Feed your program more data, and it[...]

 If you're in Seattle, Redmond or the Puget Sound Area, don't miss the Seattle DotNet Startup Group session on F# for Startups. Joel Grus is Chief Scientist at VoloMetrix, where he develops and builds the algorithms for the core analytics platform (mostly in F#).  Previously he worked in data science roles at Decide, Bing, and Farecast.  He has degrees in math and economics, but he sort of wishes he'd studied computer science instead.   Agenda: 6:00 - 6:45 PM: Pizza, beer & Networking6:45 - 7:00 PM: Intro [...]