Are you working with QuantLib and F#? Would you like to share your experiences? I'm looking for people who have used this combination. Please contact me either in a comment, or by email (dsyme@microsoft.com), or @dsyme on Twitter. Even better, if you'd like to write a guest blog entry detailing your experiences, I'd be delighted! Don p.s. QuantLib provides a .NET API so can be used directly with F#, see http://quantlib.org/extensions.shtml    

We like to say "F# loves R", because we can use R packages from F#, through an R type provider for F#.  We like to say "F# loves TypeScript", because we can use TypeScript Interface Definition Files from F#, through a TypeScript type provider for F#. This applies when compiling F# to Javascript through FunScript or WebSharper. But what about Java and JVM-based packages?  Well, believe it or not, F# and JVM-based packages can work surprisingly well together, particularly through IKVM. This magical piece of [...]

The London F# community are holding an F# Community Code Sprint this Saturday in London. Informal and fun!   Why code sprints ? You want to learn about F#, not just by the book, but by getting the expert’s trick as well ? You already know F# and would like to help the community, but getting to a codebase seems daunting ? You are an expert and wish the community took a bit of ownership to polish your hard work ? The next sprint, will be held on Saturday 9th of February 2013 starting from 10am! It will foc[...]

Tonight, 6:30pm, at The SF Bay Area F# Meetup: "Functional Data Structures: Practical F# Applications" with the wonderful Jack Fox. Beyond the bread-and-butter singly linked list are dozens of practical Functional Data Structures available to mask complexity, enable composition, and open possibilities in pattern matching. This session focuses on data structures available today in F#, but has practical application to most any functional language. The session covers what makes these structures functional, wh[...]

  Twelve F# type providers in action, brought to you with love by the Visual F# team and the F# Community Click on the images to learn more about using and/or contributing to the type providers. All your types are belong to us :)