Late notice, but just to mention that Rachel Reese is giving an online session "Getting Started with F#" in about 90 minutes time! https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=M2JSRZ&role=attend&pw=NJ%22%256gC%21x When: Tuesday, Apr 16, 2013 12:00 PM (EDT)In this talk, we'll go over the fundamental concepts of F#, and functional programming in general; you'll get up to speed on the benefits and use cases of F#; and become familiarized with the language features, syntax, and constructs through a few si[...]

Are you in the US and interested in learning F#? Tomas Petricek will be giving the successful "Fast Track to F#" course on 30 April - 1 May in New York: This two day Fast Track to F# course is what you need to start using F# in practice and to get the most out of functional and concurrent programming concepts. The course is designed by F# experts Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford and builds on their real-world experience with F#.F# is increasingly used in domains such as finance, gaming, mobile and web deve[...]

For those in the London area, there is a "Learn F# Hands On" session this Thursday evening at the London F# Meetup. All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert. 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 take a look at some the tasks on the excellent Try F# site. To get the most from the session please try and bring a laptop along with F# installed (ideally either MonoDevelop, Xamar[...]

The F# Software Foundation's Testimonials Page on http://fsharp.org is well worth a read. They are very inspiring! If you or your organization have been using F#, you can also submit your own testimonials using these simple instructions.  They can be your personal views, and you can anonymize as necessary. Don p.s.  For those who haven't heard, the F# Software Foundation (a.k.a "fsharp.org") is a community-led group. You can read its mission statement on the site. I think it is a great initiative that acts[...]

Steffen Forkmann has reported abot Stati-C/AL, a code analysis tool for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Christian Clausen and Bent Rasmussen created a really really cool static analysis tool for Dynamics NAV. For those who worked with the Dynamics NAV Developer’s Toolkit this is your new friend: Static analysis is dear to my heart as a way of improving programmer productivity, and I'm always impressed when people focus on the integration of languages and business products. And, it happens to be implemented in F#. [...]