Slightly off topic... The "debugging options" got turned on in my browser recently. I think this happened when I was debugging some web code in Visual Studio. From this, it's been interesting to see how regularly my web browsing experience is now interrupted by what must surely be outright bugs in Javascript code. Very often these are null object errors. I've always been more than sceptical about Javascript as a language for writing reliable, correct, reusable, efficient code (something F# is obviously goo[...]

I'm taking a vacation "back home", and will be speaking at the Big Picture Seminar at NICTA, Canberra tomorrow lunchtime. If you're in Canberra, I hope to see you there, and if you're at NICTA I hope you can catch it on the web broadcast.   Reconsidering Strongly-Typed Programming in the Information Rich World NICTA Canberra Research Laboratory, Friday 23 March 2012, Registration: 12:15pm Seminar: 12:30pm NICTA Seminar Room, Ground Floor, 7 London Circuit, Canberra The world is information rich, but why [...]

The next F# Seattle Meetup is on this Monday! F# PM Donna talks about F# 3.0 Beta Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information and services. F# 3.0 brings integrated support for Information Rich Programming to the .NET platform. F# Type Providers and F# Queries greatly simplify data-rich analytical programming, allowing programmers to easily access and manipulate a variety of data sources. In this meeting, the F# Program Manager, Donna Malayeri, will introduce these exciting new features [...]

The wonderful Donna Malayeri appears in the latest F# Channel 9 Lecture on F# 3.0 Information Rich Programming. Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information and services. F# 3.0 brings integrated support for Information Rich Programming to the .NET platform. F# Type Providers and F# Queries greatly simplify data-rich analytical programming, allowing programmers to easily access and manipulate a variety of data sources. In this lecture, Donna Malayeri, F# Program Manager, introduces these [...]

This Thursday Adam Mlocek of StatFactory will talk about using F# as a platform for quantitative development at the F#unctional Londoner's F# Meetup! Thursday, March 22, 2012, 6:30 PM The Skills Matter eXchange 116-120  Goswell Road, EC1V 7DP, London (map) This will be followed by a set of lightning talks 15-30mins on F# related topics including Kit Eason on an optimized actuarial calculation engine and Carl Nolan of Microsoft on F# Charting.You can post a brief title if you'd like to speak. Please also re[...]