(I've ended up commenting on this issue on Stack Overflow quite a few times, so I figured it would be worth writing a blog post to refer to in the future.) There are lots of ways of converting values from one type to another – either changing the compile[...]

Lately I’ve been making steady progress in porting over Rx APIs over to Dart with stream_ext, and with the release of version 0.2.0 a few more Rx methods have been added to the existing set of buffer, combineLatest, delay, max, merge, min, scan, sum, thro[...]

In a recent StackOverflow question the poster asked about the difference between tupled and curried form of a function in F#. In F#, you can use pattern matching to easily define a function that takes a tuple as an argument. For example, the poster's fun[...]

 A second F# meetup group has launched over the summer - the Paris-based Functional Programming in F# group. Learn how to take advantage of F# and .NET platform to develop a real world functional programs If you are beginner or an expert in FP it doesn[...]

  Those of us in the Visual F# team are pleased to announce that the Washington DC F# Meetup group has now been launched!   Welcome! This is an F# meetup group that meets in and around the DC area. The goal is to bring likeminded local F# enthusiasts t[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News FSharp.Data 1.1.10 was released with a bunch of bugfixes. RProvider 1.0.1 was released with latest R.NET and RDotNet.FSharp inside. Francesco De Vittori works on type inference for Sm[...]

Microsoft has added owin support for asp.net. This is exciting since it can yield different web servers. Why is this a good thing? It could mean that it gets easier to self host a local only web server, that you can host an asp.net site in different envir[...]

Using StageXL and Dart, I built another mini-game themed around our MMORPG Here Be Monsters this week. The game follows a pack of Taotie monsters, which is a type of spirit monster created when a ghost with immense hunger possesses a Chinese pot. Taotie o[...]

Earlier this week, the Release Candidate build of Visual Studio 2013 was announced.  Like the Preview build before it, the RC contains a host of new features for F# developers, including F# 3.1 language updates and improved Visual F# tooling.  You can rea[...]

The machine learning theme continues to be popular at the F#unctional Londoners meetup group. Last night Matt Moloney gave a great hands on session on k-means clustering. Matt has worked on large machine learning systems at e-Bay. More recently he has bee[...]