This talk would include details on Getting started with Pit, using the tools and a simple walkthrough project using a single page app + ServiceStack.NET for creating tasks.

In this talk, I will give an experience report on implementing FPish, a new community site for functional programmers; the issues we encountered; and the way we solved some of these challenges. FPish is implemented entirely in F# as a massive WebSharper s...

Are you confused about the messaging from Microsoft around F#? Are you wishing a feature would be supported in the language or IDE and not sure why it's not? Join us for our first F# Community Roundtable to discuss what we, the community, can do to advance...

This is the first Progressive F# Tutorials, a 2-day, 2-track conference, covering the latest developments in the fast moving world of F# programming.

FP Day is a new one-day event for the Functional Programming community in the UK and around the world. Intended to be hands-on and interactive, FP Day will give you the opportunity to share experiences with others.

The .NET framework provides several ways of interacting with I/O out of the box. These work great until you need to maximize performance over network I/O. Dave Thomas has demonstrated that using SocketAsyncEventArgs rather than the Asynchronous Programming...

Join the great program with Christian Hassa, Gaspar Nagy, Ian Cooper, Sebastien Lambla, Dylan Beattie , Simon Brown, Paul Stack, Damjan Vujnovic, Adam Granicz, Ian Robinson, Mark Rendle, Steven Robbins, Jon Skeet, and Nathan Gloyn.

Learn about the use of F# in the next version of Castle MonoRail with Hamilton Veríssimo "Hammett" de Oliveira.

Dave Thomas will present on his experiments with F# for server-side programming including the fracture-io project, a high-performance socket pipeline library meant to offer a range of useful features similar to those offered in 0mq and Akka.

In this talk we'll look at when and how to define and automate Acceptance Tests from both a business and development point of view. Focusing on the business benefits of specifying scenarios in plain English and automating them with F#. The talk will includ...

Thanks to everyone attending, including some great speakers with excellent talks, we enjoyed an exciting, inspiring day packed with learning yesterday.

F# has a strong, growing reputation for its ability to simplify complicated problems like parallel and asynchronous programming, data processing, and financial modeling. However, F# isn't just great in these niches; it’s also great at solving everyday prob...

Simon Cousins, Talbott Crowell, Howard Mansell, and Robert Pickering discussing F# in the Enterprise.

F# already allows you to write applications with much less code and fewer bugs, but wouldn't it be nice to improve productivity even more by creating/using custom F# application (a.k.a. multi-project) templates and NuGet packages? In this talk we will disc...

F# 2.0 brings together functional programming and the .NET platform to create an amazingly powerful tool for software developers and domain specialists. In this talk, we'll cover some of what makes F# 2.0 special today: the combination of succinctness and ...

Following on from the success of the Functional Programming eXchange in December 2009, Skills Matter presents the next Functional Programming eXchange 2011.

One of the key concepts of functional programming is compositionality – the fact that we can build complex software using several basic “building blocks” and just a few ways of combining them. In this talk, I’ll demonstrate how we can teach this concept us...

Samin Ishtiaq taught a 1 hour crash course in functional programming to 10/11 year olds at a local Cambridge primary school recently. The course leads up to calculating areas and volumes, which is what the students were learning in maths at that time. This...

WebSharper sitelets provide the essential mechanism to encapsulate entire websites as F# values. In this talk, I will present how you can use sitelets to develop dynamic, template-based, markup-less web applications with WebSharper that seamlessly combine...

In this presentation Robert Pickering will take a look at the concept of the tree data structure, and we’ll see how trees are everywhere we look in programing — from XML to lisp, and passing by indexes in RMDS. He will first look at the various different w...

In this talk Anton will present a pre-release version of WebSharper 2.0 by developing and testing a small standalone JavaScript component. Anton will demonstrate that WebSharper 2.0 gives as much flexibility and runtime efficiency as coding JavaScript by h...

In this talk, Adam Granicz will present the main motivations for WebSharper, highlight some of its capabilities, and demonstrate how it can jump start developer productivity in creating robust client-based web applications entirely in F#. We will briefly ...

Part 2 of a two part session. In Part 2, Scott goes into Visual Studio through code examples. See Part 1 for the theory behind F# Workflows.

F# Workflows are a powerful and elegant tool for solving many real-world problems, though they can be rather daunting at first. We'll survey some ways in which Workflows in the standard F# libraries are used for common development tasks, then dig into deta...

Don will talk about the templates, patterns and practices for Silverlight, Xaml and Web programming with F# or mixed F#/C# projects, using Visual Studio 2010 and the Online Templates. There might be a few other topics thrown in. We’ll also have an open Q&A...

Nearly a month ago I visited the NYC ALT.NET User Group in Manhattan. Having been told by Steve Bohlen that I was up against a particularly sharp audience, I decided to do something much different than I had in any of my previous talks.

Nearly a month ago I visited the NYC ALT.NET User Group in Manhattan. Having been told by Steve Bohlen that I was up against a particularly sharp audience, I decided to do something much different than I had in any of my previous talks.

Nearly a month ago I visited the NYC ALT.NET User Group in Manhattan. Having been told by Steve Bohlen that I was up against a particularly sharp audience, I decided to do something much different than I had in any of my previous talks.

Ryan Riley will introduce functional programming using examples from both C# and F#. This presentation will be great for those coming from a C# or VB.NET background who are unfamiliar with the functional paradigm. If you already know functional programming...

Alex Pedenko (@kolosy) will show how to build web applications in F# using the Bistro framework (http://bistroframework.org/).

Presented at the New England F# User Group on June 7, 2010, Steffen discusses FAKE and NaturalSpec. In this talk, he shows these tools in action, and talks a bit about some internal implementation details. In particular he shows why he used F# and how spec...

Working with F# or just curious as to who's doing what? Join us Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 to find out what people are doing with F#. Chris Marinos (F# Koans), the Bistro team, and YOU will have the chance to present and discuss practical uses of F# "in the w...

If you've ever been interested in writing a full fledged compiler in F# then this is the talk for you. This talk will go over the FSMiniJava project, a compiler converting a subset of the Java language into x86 assembler and then producing working executab...

This talk describes building Silverlight 3 applications using F#. Both Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 RC are demonstrated.

One area where F# excels beyond other languages is its language oriented programming features. These are especially useful for the testing and analysis of existing code. In this intermediate to advanced talk, Richard will demonstrate how F# can be used to ...

Steffan Forkmann will present on some of the projects he's worked on, including Fake, FunctionalNHibernate, etc.

Ryan Riley will introduce functional programming using examples from both C# and F#. This presentation will be great for those coming from a C# or VB.NET background who are unfamiliar with the functional paradigm. If you already know functional programming...

Skills Matter aims to bring together the leading innovators in the Functional Programming community with the UK's enterprise developer community, for an informal day of deep technical insight, inspiration, innovation and friendly discussion.