Last Wednesday I got the chance to attend a “Coding Breakfast” hosted by Damien Thouvenin of CLT Services. The concept is simple, turn up a little before 8:30, enjoy some coffee and croissant, then we attempt a Coding Kata for about an hour and finally we get together to review the results. I was pleased to see the great and the good of the Paris coding scene there, in the form of Yann Schwartz and Jérémie Chassaing. The chosen Kata was the “Parking Meter” problem. Create a function to calculate how much [...]

Last week, at the Xamarin Evolve conference, Xamarin announced support for the F# language as part of the Xamarin tools for iOS and Android app programming. Microsoft were Platinum sponsors of Xamarin Evolve. Videos from Evolve will be available soon (link). In the meantime, you can watch Miguel de Icaza, one of the founders of Xamarin, discuss the F# support they have added  (the F# part starts at 21min 55s) in this Channel 9 video The announcement from Xamarin means you can now create iOS and Android app[...]

Tonight (actually in about half an hour) Dmitry Morozov will be talking at the F# New York City Meetup on F# MVC for WPF. F# is known as a great language to express complex algorithms, crunch numbers and process all kinds of data. Have you ever wondered if it can be effectively used for such down-to-earth task as WPF GUI development? “F# MVC for WPF” is a small yet powerful framework designed for building WPF applications in F#. With strong support for MVC, functional, asynchronous and event-driven program[...]

Over on the Visual F# team blog we have an article introducing you to using QuantLib from F#: A Guest Blog in conjunction with Alexandre Radicchi (alex.radi@gmail.com) F# is an attractive language to use in Financial Engineering because of its functional-first methodology, succinctness, strong typing, data-integration, stability, maturity, tooling and performance, as well as its supported editions in Visual Studio, its open-source edition, its cross-platform execution and its widespread availability. You c[...]

In this post weare going to look as async again, but from the perspective of F#. Xamarin Evolve 2013 I have been watching the Xamarin Evolve conference this week and it was good to see Miguel announce full support for F#. Those that follow me on twitter etc, will know that I have been doing F# for quite a while in MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio. The new support currently entails some new project templates so that you can easily create epic new F# Apps without having to refer to my blog. While i[...]