I was particularly inspired by the latest F# Weekly from the F# Community (feed here). This edition really shows the incredible range of application of F# and activity in the F# community, from HTML5 GeoLocation examples using WebSharper to interoperability with Java to GPGPU programming to machine learning algorithms using Adaptive Boosting. Enjoy! Don   Welcome to F# Weekly, One more week has passed. This past week was full of interesting blog posts that are waiting for you: News Don Syme is 10000000th [...]

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" literal, or some backdoors like Unchecked.defaultof<_>. However what Tomas says does match people’s actual experience with the two languages, and it is certainly true that NREs almost never occur in routine F# coding. For example, this comparison records that [...]

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://pyvideo.org/video/1762/using-futures-for-async-gui-programming-in-python guido came by our booth & talked a good 20 mins about async… gave lots of credit to .net async – not sure if he knew that they came from F#. s Emails like this really do make my day [...]

There's a double act at the F#unctional Londoners Meetup on Thursday night. Thursday, February 28, 2013, 6:30 PM, The Skills Matter eXchange, 116-120 Goswell Road, EC1V 7DP, London(map) Title: The F# 3.0 SQL Server Type Provider - Very Cool, and Very Useful Kit Eason gives us a practical walkthough of F# 3.0's SQL Server Type provider, and the query {} expression.  How to get started. How to write efficient queries.  When to use it - and when not to. Title: The F# 3.0 Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Type Provi[...]

Follow the controversy here: http://www.simontylercousins.net/journal/2013/2/22/does-the-language-you-choose-make-a-difference.html… and via @simontcousins on twitter ...the one stat in the summary that I find most compelling is the defect rate. I have now delivered three business critical projects written in F#. I am still waiting for the first bug to come in. This is not the case with the C# projects I have delivered. I will continue to monitor and report on this. It might be that I am just on a lucky st[...]