The University of Pisa will be hosting a one-day workshop entitled F# for Education and Innovation on Tuesday 28th June 2012.  Please join us there! The workshop is preceded by an optional Introduction to F#  Tutorial, run by Antonio Cisternino at the University of Pisa, on 27th June  2012.   Topics at the workshop will include Strongly-Typed Programming for the Information-Rich World, Why F# for Finance, F# for Computer Science Education, F# for Science and Engineering, Parallel Programming with F#, and [...]

  I'm glad to mention that SkillsMatter will be running their Progressive F# Tutorials in New York City, 5 June 2012! This is a great opportunity for those on the East Coast of the USA to dive into learrning F#.  Some details are below, more details via the link above.   Join us for this 2-day, 2-track F# event, packed with hands-on tutorials covering the latest developments in the fast moving world of F# Programming. Whether new to F# or seasoned veteran, be ready for an action packed two day adventure. [...]

This is cross-posted from the F# team blog. Great to see this!   Training is an important part of adopting F# successfully in any large organization. There are several options for F# training currently available, but one recent addition is an online training course in F# by Pluralsight, authored by Oliver Sturm.  The material is available through a subscription -  details on subscriptions to this material can be found on the Pluralsight website. The sections and durations of the course are listed below, an[...]

Back in 2007 Ralf Herbrich and co. wrote a research paper called "TrueSkill Through Time". Their sample code was written with a pre-release of F# 1.0, and was not updated to F# in Visual Studio 2010. Here is an update of this code for F# in Visual Studio 2010, as requested by some people commenting on that blog entry. Please note that I'm not an expert in the code, and that it does currently require a database connection to use (to save the analysis results)

More F# Hadoop goodness from Carl Nolan. This time a compositional framework for submitting F# and C# Azure/Hadoop map-reduce jobs.    Framework for Composing and Submitting .Net Hadoop MapReduce Jobs If you have been following my blog you will see that I have been putting together samples for writing .Net Hadoop MapReduce jobs; using Hadoop Streaming. However one thing that became apparent is that the samples could be reconstructed in a composable  framework to enable one to submit .Net based MapReduce jo[...]