Want to meet the international F# community and learn and share skills with some of the world's top experts, mathematicians and engineers? Find out about all the latest F# technologies and applications and discover the latest best practices and ideas? Then...

oin us online on March 4th 2016 for the live streaming of the first year of fsharpConf, a free virtual event featuring world-class F# experts across the globe. You will see F# in action on a wide range of practical applications.

"Recalled is a F# library for persistent, incremental, parallel computations such as build systems. The main goals for Recalled are to make it straightforward to define such computations and to scale such computations. In this talk, we will first examine h...

The Functional Programming eXchange returns to Skills Matter for it's sixth year. This is the ultimate chance to meet and learn from the leading experts in the Functional world.

Bringing together experts and developers, this conference is focused on the functional language Clojure. Featuring a huge range of talks, case studies, live coding and panel discussions.(Oh and there will be some AR Drones flying around too).

The Progressive F# Tutorials bring together the leading experts in F# to deliver a range of talks, 4 hour intensive hands-on tutorials and discussions.

Cells are the building blocks of life. If we could program living cells as effectively as we program digital computers we could make breakthroughs in medical treatment, sustainable agriculture and clean energy, while also better understanding of how living...

This dedicated Haskell conference will pull together enthusiasts, developers, and thought leaders across the Haskell ecosystem.

James Freiwirth will demonstrate cross platform mobile application development with F#, based on experiences at his startup.

Gustavo Guerra will talk about his experience developing the "Learn On The Go" Windows 8 application with F#.

Lambda Jam is a new conference that can take your skills to the next level. This is not your traditional conference of sitting and listening - a significant portion of each day will be devoted to hands-on practice or workshops.

This talk will introduce what might seem like an unlikely combination - functional programming with F# and the Raspberry Pi. You will see how powerful functional abstractions and succinct code can make prototyping and programming with the Pi a breeze. Expe...

After much anticipation, we’re thrilled to announce the fourth annual Scala Days will be held this year in New York at The Hudson Theater on June 10th-12th.

Neil will take us through developing apps for iPad and iPhone with F# using Xamarin Studio.

In this session, Yan will share some of his experiences of building a successful MMORPG for a social audience and insights into some of the technical challenges that his team has had to overcome along the way.

The Progressive F# Tutorials bring together the leading experts in F# to deliver a range of talks,4 hour intensive hands-on tutorials and discussions.

In this talk Matt Moloney and Adam Mlocek will preview the Tsunami IDE which provides an embedded F# IDE experience inside of Excel with full integration!

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 simple e...

It is often claimed that functional languages are ideal for building static analysis applications. However, most applications are on small academic languages. In this document we test the claim on a real-world language, C/AL, which is the language used for...

Skills Matter is pleased to announce the Fourth Functional Programming eXchange our annual conference on the functional programming paradigm, practices, technologies and ideas.

This talk will look at F# as a testing language. We'll look at F# specific language features, like backtick methods and object expressions, plus libraries like FsUnit and Foq.

F# Eye for the C# guy This talk is for C# programmers who are curious about F#, a new multi-paradigm programming language in Visual Studio. In: test driven development, classes and functions Out: maths, monads and moth-eaten jumpers Expect plenty of prac...

Functional programming techniques are becoming increasingly important in data-centric programming.

With the advent of cloud platforms and private data centers, developers face once more the challenges of distributed computing in their effort to harness the available computing power. Concurrency, message passing, elasticity and machine failure are now co...

The Alternative Programming Conference

The functional programming language Erlang is battle-tested, open-source, and runs great on Windows, Mac and Linux (both Intel and ARM). What makes it so different from other languages (including functional ones)? How does Erlang solve hard problems that o...

The Scala eXchange comes in the wake of Scala Days in April - 350+ attendees, 60+ presentations, and the lovebus! - For now, we can reveal that Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, will return to Skills Matter to deliver a Keynote!

Join Phil Trelford and Tomas Petricek as they discuss their efforts to establish the F# Foundation to demonstrate and promote the use of F# across platforms.

CodeKen 2012 is a two day conference for developers with a passion for new technology. We bring together an eclectic range of talks covering new technologies, languages and techniques. Our goal is to inspire developers and celebrate software development.

F#functional Londoners aims to bring together Londoners with an interest in functional programming with F#.

Many of the features provided by F# lend themselves well to web development. With the recent announcement of the F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for the Web, there has never been a better time to get started building web applications with F# doing ...

FP Days is an event for the Functional Programming community in the UK and around the world.

Skills Matter is proud to announce the first annual Haskell eXchange. This fast paced day will bring together some of the leading experts in Haskell providing a range of talks and discussions.

In this talk, the F# 3.0 new feature type provider are introduced.

Functional programming has been at the forefront of a new generation of programming technologies: Companies employing functional programming use it to enable more effective, robust, and flexible software development.

Microsoft Community Osijek together with Microsoft Croatia with support from INETA, Hupro, MIC Varaždin and Mreža are organizing the regional community conference KulenDayz 2012.

F#unctional Londoners aims to bring together Londoners with an interest in functional programming with F#. Topics include: Essentials of functional programming and F# Assessing what kind of projects F# is well suited for - or not

The HTTP protocol is inherently functional. It's simple, stateless interface taking a request and returning a response should be quite familiar to functional programmers. In this series, we'll investigate the benefits of taking a functional approach to bui...

Computation expressions underpin many useful formalisms such as sequence expressions or asynchronous computations. Even query expressions, introduced in F# 3.0, are also a type of computation expression. In this talk, we will overview computation expressio...

@FSUG presents Mathias Brandewinder on Bumblebee. Bumblebee is an Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm developed in F# and hosted on CodePlex. Please Retweet: https://twitter.com/talbott/status/214717717834514432 “The algorithm in action: Traveling Sal...

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.

Since F# became a first class language in Visual Studio 2010, it has been gaining popularity amount the industry and academic communities. In this talk, we will first look at the F# value propositions through a set of interesting demos. We’ll also take a l...

The Progressive.NET Tutorials are a deep-dive,the antidote to the traditional conference format where speakers have too little time to explain complex ideas or provide any depth of understanding.

Tonight we have two talks, Phil Trelford on F# for Commodities Trading and Tomas Petricek on F# for Finance.

Skills Matter is pleased to announce the First Progressive Java Tutorials, the annual Java conference offering a unique blend of product and experience mixed, and tempered with theory and practice.

Some of you may remember the crash of the $125 Million Mars Climate Orbiter in September of 1999. Later review revealed that the Orbiter crashed because of a simple and avoidable problem. One team of software developers assumed English units for their me...

This month, the F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group presents Adam Mlocek on GPU enabled F# numerics, followed by a set of lightning talks on F# related topics.

Join Robert Pickering, David Pollak, Erik Hesselink, Loic Denuziere, Kevin Wright, Andres Löh, Tomas Petricek, Miles Sabin, Bruce Durling, and some 100 others passionate about Functional Programming.

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.

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.

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...