I am very excited about my recent Microsoft MVP 2010 award for my work in F#, and I would like to thank everyone who has recommended me for receiving this award. Foremost, I would like to thank ...

Last week I had a Community for F# talk on WebSharper where I presented a small WebSharper application to implement a client-based, persistent shopping cart, and I received numerous emails asking for the source code for that talk. So in this post I am going to show you the full source code and walk you through what I did to implement the shopping cart functionality. The code provided here should work on any existing 1.0.X installation, preferably on the latest 1.0.28 release.

Functional programming languages have been a hot topic of academic research for over 35 years, and have seen an ever larger practical impact in settings ranging from tech startups to financial firms to biomedical research labs. At the same time, a vigorous community of practically-minding functional programmers has come into existence. CUFP is designed to serve this community. The annual CUFP workshop is a place where people can see how others are using functional programming to solve real world problems;[...]

You can now install WebSharper through Visual Studio 2010's Extension Manager with a single click.

A short list of changes in Expert F# 2.0, and a bit of celebration...