At NDC Oslo, F# in Finance and other recent events I’ve given versions of the talk “Succeeding with Functional-First Programming in Finance”. I’ve also given adaptions called “Succeeding with Functional-First Programming in Industry”.   The slides are now available on Slide Share. The talk is based partly on material from http://fsharp.org/testimonials and other sources, I’d be happy...

  Yesterday I gave a talk at NDC London 2013 called "Making Magic with F# Type Providers" Here are my slides : http://www.slideshare.net/dsyme/making-magic-with-f-type-providers. The raw PPTX is also attached further below.    

  Yesterday I gave a talk at NDC London 2013 called “Making Magic with F# Type Providers” Here are my slides : http://www.slideshare.net/dsyme/making-magic-with-f-type-providers. The raw PPTX is also attached further below.     data-type-providers-fsharp.pptx

  Over on the Visual F# team blog we've described how to use F# type providers with Xenomorph TimeScape, a financial data product which you can use in Windows Azure and on-premise. This work is an F# sample from Microsoft Research. The sample has been picked by the F# community and incorporated into the new FsProjects area for community incubations. If you have access to a Xenomorph TimeScape instance, you can get and use the sample here: http://fsprojects.github.io/FSharp.Data.Experimental.XenomorphProvid[...]

The purpose of this post is to mention where the F# language, compilation and editing support in Xamarin Studio comes from and how you can contribute to this tooling (and the same for Emacs too), and is posted on behlaf of Dave Thomas, a major F# commuity contributor. As many readers will know, F# is available for use in Xamarin Studio.  With F# and Xamarin Studio you can currently, for example Develop with F# on Windows or Mac Develop Android and iOS applications. Develop F# components to be used across [...]