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[...]

Looks like materialized views are coming to postgres :).

Whats good about spreadsheets? Spreadsheet applications offers a lot of usability. The concept of using a grid of variables that are easy to reference is a surprisingly powerful  concept. Many applications can be prototyped in spread sheet applications.[...]

Whats good about spreadsheets? Spreadsheet applications offers a lot of usability. The concept of using a grid of variables that are easy to reference is a surprisingly powerful  concept. Many applications can be prototyped in spread sheet applications.[...]