QCon NYC was the most refreshing conference I’ve been to in a very long time. Perhaps it’s partially because I’ve lingered too long in Microsoft circles, or maybe it’s just been too long since I went to a large conference. In any case, the speaker lineup [...]

  Microsoft Research in Redmond has several RSDE (Research Software Development Engineer) positions available in Machine Learning + Data Tools. They are looking for people with C# and F# skills - both are used. Prior Machine Learning experience is not nec[...]

Tonight at the F#unctional Londoners meetup:, 6:30pm, SkillsMatter, London: In this regular meetup we'll take on one or more programming challenges in F#. All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert. This month we'll go hands on with a Machi[...]

One of the great new features in Visual Studio 2013 is the ability to view function return values in the debugger.  This works not just for C# and VB, but for F#, as well.  We didn’t include this in our list of new Visual F# tools features for F# 3.1, but[...]

Inspired by Dmitry Morozov’s MVC series (among the best F# articles I’ve ever seen!), I wanted to extend his data binding DSL to allow the setting of binding properties individually for each model property. The end result I was after, was to be able to wr[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News “Indentation for val” was proposed on VS uservoice. The first version of F# code formatter addin for Visual Studio 2012 was released. Do not lose your points – up-vote your favorite i[...]

We first heard of the Australian government gettings fallout from the US because of voiced concerns about using offshore cloud providers. Some technologists I have talked with thought it obvious that the US government would use available means to get accu[...]

We first heard of the Australian government gettings fallout from the US because of voiced concerns about using offshore cloud providers. Some technologists I have talked with thought it obvious that the US government would use available means to get accu[...]

Problem The primes 3, 7, 109, and 673, are quite remarkable. By taking any two primes and concatenating them in any order the result will always be prime. For example, taking 7 and 109, both 7109 and 1097 are prime. The sum of these four primes, 792, repr[...]