Over on the F# team blog the Visual F# team have announced the availability of Visual F# 3.0 Beta now available in Visual Studio 11 !!  The announcement is included below. This release contains the new features described below, plus all the usual F# 1.0/2.0 goodness, plus F# 3.0 Information Rich Programming, which has been available in preview since September and was presented at BUILD. The Visual F# team in Redmond have worked very hard on delivering these programming features, and congratulations to the[...]

Seattle F# user group meeting Feb 21, 2012 Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 6:00 PM. Microsoft Building 99, Room 1919-C, Redmond, WA (map) 47.641712 -122.140670 As with the previous meetup, we have two sessions + one tiny program contest: Ryan Riley  (F# MVP) : Web Apps and APIs with F# Most .NET web applications today use ASP.NET WebForms or MVC. However, several F# libraries offer new ways to build web APIs and applications help reduce code and offer better abstractions, especially for single-page applic[...]

The folks at SkillsMatter in London are hosting the Functional Programming eXchange 2012, on March 16, 2012, in London! Join the Functional Programming community for a one-day conference jam-packed with talks, open-space discussions and brainstorming. Learn and share the latest innovative ideas, best tools and practices in the different languages (scala, clojure, haskell, F#) and environments. Read the full programme and book tickets here. What: Functional Programming eXchange 2012When: March 16th 2012, Br[...]

Microsoft Research Cambridge has available a 6-month contract position for development of web-based user interfaces for designing and simulating computer models of biological systems. We are looking for an experienced and highly-motivated individual to produce easy-to-use interfaces for the software tools developed by our Computational Science Lab. The aim of the post is to produce user interfaces to simplify and encourage the trial and adoption of our research prototypes within the wider research communit[...]

The first F# Seattle Meetup has been announced! It will be held this Saturday, on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. http://www.meetup.com/FSharpSeattle/events/49365112/ Sign up at http://www.meetup.com/FSharpSeattle/events/ for full details of this and future events. Don In this first meeting, we will introduce F# and the new features in F# 3.0 and how to use F# in the daily programming tasks. F# Introduction and 3.0 New Features Saturday, January 28, 2012, 2:30 PM     Microsoft building 32 - Room 1027     [...]