Earlier I posted about F# Deep Dives and its Early Access Program for reading chapters of the book as they become available. I'm particularly struck by the contents of Chapter 4 - Numerical computing in the financial domain by Chao-Jen Chen. This looks li[...]

I'd like to draw your attention to the Early Access Program for F# Deep Dives, which looks like it will be a wonderful book! F# Deep Dives presents a collection of real-world F# techniques, each written by expert practitioners. Each chapter presents a ne[...]

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The Progressive F# Tutorials are returning to New York City on September 18-19th! The Progressive F# Tutorials bring together the leading experts in F# to deliver a range of talks, 4 hour intensive hands-on tutorials and discussions, allowing attendees to[...]

The topic of integrating F# and Microsoft Excel arises frequently, particularly in financial, insurance, statistical and data science work. There are several approaches to this, and in a recent discussion about F# in Finance, the topic of Excel DNA came u[...]

The strange thing happens, Rattle is an awesome tool but not so well known for devs as it should be. We definitely need to fix this. Rattle (the R Analytical Tool To Learn Easily) presents statistical and visual summaries of data, transforms data into for[...]

The first annual Lambda Jam (US) conference was held at the extraordinarily beautiful Intercontinental hotel in downtown Chicago, a few blocks from the lake. Lambda Jam was unusual in a couple of ways: First off, it specifically targeted a broad range of[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News F# users who program with Visual Studio will be glad to see this new debugger feature in VS2013. F# side-by-side rendered Markdown comments in Tsunami are coming soon. There is one mo[...]

It looks like this summer will be my strangest vacation in a while – I’ll be taking a F# road trip of sorts in August, talking about F# at user groups all over the United States. How this crazy plan took shape exactly I am not quite sure in retrospect, bu[...]