It's never been easier to get started with WebSharper 2.0 - now with a single installer that contains six WebSharper project templates for Visual Studio, including integration with ASP.NET, MVC, and Sitelets. Go and grab your installer (renumbered as a bundle, current latest 2.0.21) at the WebSharper Downloads page.

We just released a new WebSharper 2.0 Beta (2.0.63) and a matching WebSharper Manager (2.0.10) - please go to the WebSharper Download Page to grab the new binaries.

So, the good folks at Skills Matter and I have been working hard to bring you the next edition of “Functional Programming eXchange” the program is just about in place now. The current program can be found here and we expect to be adding more names and some more details over the next weeks or so. Book now, or before December 31st and you can still get to see it all for the bargain price of £75. I’m very excited about this year’s program and I’m very much looking forward to meeting all of the speakers. When[...]

I’ve been doing a bit of work with Solver Foundation lately and as I got to know the package it suddenly occurred to me Solver Foundation could be easily used to solve Sudoku puzzles. While I knew that solving Sudoku in F# wasn’t particularly an original idea, Jon Harrop has a custom Sudoku solver in F# that dates back to 2007, but I thought using Solver Foundation might be an interesting approach. I was on the train at the time so I fired up VS and pretty quickly had a working solution. A little googling [...]

This article contains materials for two talks that I had in November. First, I presented the F# plugin for MonoDevelop at the F# in Education workshop in Boston (using 3D functional library) and then I talked about agent-based concurrency (with Twitter and image processing examples) in London.