Last week saw the fourth instalment of the annual Progressive F# Tutorials hosted at Skills Matter in London, with 8 sessions over 2 days and 2 tracks, to a full house. 2014 has been another exciting year in the F# community, with F# specific talks featuring heavily at major conferences, user groups popping up across the globe and F# sitting comfortably in the TIOBE top 20. Day 1 Don Syme kicked off t[...]

Verena Lowensburg was a Swiss painter and graphic designer, assocciated with the concrete art movement. I came across some of her work while searching for pieces by Richard Paul Lohse. Again I’ve selected some pieces and attempted to draw them procedurally. Spiral of circles and semi-circles Based on Verena Loewensburg’s Unititled, 1953 The piece was constructed from circles and semi-circles arranged around 5 concentric rectangles drawn from the inside-out. The lines of the rectangles are drawn in a [...]

There’s just a week to go until the Progressive F# Tutorials returns to Skills Matter in London, on Nov 6-7, and it’s never too late to book. The tutorials are a 2 day / 2 track event community event made up of 3 hour long hands on sessions with industry experts, suitable for beginners and experts alike. The first day will start with a keynote from Don Syme, F# community contributor and a Principal Researcher at Micrsoft Research, on the F# way to reconciliation. On the beginners track we have: Scot[...]

Richard Paul Lohse was a Swiss born painter and graphic artist who typically produced pieces that had “interacting colour elements in various logical/mathematical relations visible to the eye” Out of curiosity I’ve taken a small number of Lohse’s work, generated them procedurally and added simple animations. Sechs Serigraphien Here I imagined the centre blocks bleeding out and filling the adjacent blocks a line at a time.   15 systematische Farbreihen mit 5 gleichen horizontalen Rythmen This pict[...]

The easiest place to see what’s going on in the F# community is to follow the #fsharp hash tag on Twitter. The last 24hrs have been as busy as ever, to the point where it can be hard to keep up these days. Here’s some of the highlights Events Build Stuff conference to feature 8 F# speakers: @c4fsharp + @silverSpoon & the @theburningmonk too :) — headintheclouds (@ptrelford) October 13, 2014 and workshops including: Machine learning and functional programing Build a Compiler in a Day F[...]