We are experimenting with PhoneGap, PhoneGap Build, Ripple emulator and WebSharper. If successful, this will let you write truly cross-platform native mobile apps in F#, quickly pre-testing them in Chrome, and then generating various installers (Android, [...]

There are several things under the TypeScript umbrella: a type system, language spec, JavaScript-targeting compiler and tooling that provides interactive code completion. I have tried TypeScript on a few small projects, the latest one being TypedPhoneGap.[...]

My trajectory through “Machine Learning in Action” is becoming more unpredictable as we go – this time, rather than completing our last episode on K-means clustering (we’ll get back to it later), I’ll make another jump directly to Chapter 14, which is ded[...]

This is a great demo of R Type Provider presented by Howard Mansell in September 2012. Look at this, if you missed it as I did. It is really exciting! F# Type Provider for R Statistical Platform from Howard Mansell Filed under: F# Tagged: F#, R, Type Prov[...]

The F# community quote of the week was from Tomas Petricek in answer to a question on Twitter, see the pic on the right.  What Tomas says is not 100% technically accurate: you can get NRE in F# if you use C# libraries. C#-defined types and the "null" lite[...]

- “What can C# do that F# cannot?” -”NullReferenceException “ Tomas Petricek. Welcome to F# Weekly, Using this weekly, I would like  to introduce Nando de Freitas for everyone who interested in machine learning. He is a machine learning professor at UBC. [...]

I woke up to a nice email from Shahrokh Mortazavi today. I'll quote it, I don't think he'll mind From: Shahrokh Mortazavi Sent: 24 March 2013 08:08To: Don SymeSubject: dino's talk at pycon                             This is basically your work :-) http:/[...]

“To be, or not to be” William Shakespeare Why people choose F#?  This is actually an interesting question. Everyone, who does not use it yet, should find a reason that will force him to try F# or even start use it in production. New posts like ‘Why F#’ ha[...]

I tend to complain a lot about the programming tools I work with. In one sentence, the world of software is just not a sane place. If left unchecked, this complaining attitude can grow into despair - so I enjoy a little escape from time to time. I need to[...]