It’s a bit of a long story. A chain of events would unfurl that would lead me inextricably to writing a clone of a 70s video game. It started a few weeks ago while exploring early 90s dance tracks on Spotify, when I happened upon the seminal EP - Clonks C[...]

Just to mention that there will be a talk on F# 3.0 at TechDays France in Paris, on February 7, at 4pm. F# 3.0: data, services, Web, cloud, at your fingertips (LAN209) You can find all the details here: http://www.microsoft.com/france/mstechdays/programme[...]

I'm catching up on blogging about what's been going on in F# lately. One thing that happened over the vacation is that the F# HTML5/Mobile development tool called WebSharper is now open source, and free for use for open source projects (details on the sit[...]

This is going to be a new series on using TPL Dataflow with F#. First a little bit of history and background. <h2 id="TPL_Dataflows_

This is going to be a new series on using TPL Dataflow with F#. First a little bit of history and background. TPL Dataflows heritage and background TPL Dataflow or (TDF) has been around for quite a while, it first surfaced more than a year ago as the s[...]

Legacy code is a problem in all languages, even F#. The super awesome Ilker Cetinkaya published an excellent article about “test implants”. I really recommend to read his post before you read this one. It’s a really well written story called “The quest of[...]

Is it time to learn something new? Training is key to growing F# adoption and understanding in your enterprise, as well as increasing the skillbase of your C# and other programmers mroe generally. Here are some links to F# training courses in London in Ja[...]

  At last, Microsoft have released its long awaited Cloud Numerics library!!! A huge congratulations to the Cloud Numerics team (follow their blog!), and I encourage everyone in the F# community to be looking at the use of these wonderful technologies tog[...]

Thank you all for your comments on my previous post, I appreciate the time you all took in sharing your perspectives very much.  Many of you have brought up great analogies to demonstrate how you feel and in reading these responses I realized I must not h[...]

The recently announced Cloud Numerics library is a great fit for F# analytical computing. The Cloud Numerics team recently posted some examples of how to use this library in F#, and learn how to do distributed numerics on Azure with F#! As always, we welc[...]