Last Thursday, I gave a talk at the Bay.NET user group in Berkeley, introducing F# to C# developers. First off, I have to thank everybody who came – you guys were great, lots of good questions, nice energy, I had a fantastic time! My goal was to highlight why I think F# is awesome, and of course this had to include a Type Provider demo, one of the most amazing features of F# 3.0. So I went ahead, and demoed Tomas Petricek’s World Bank Type Provider, and Howard Mansell’s R Type Provider – together. The prom[...]

Catapult Systems, my employer, is hosting several of the upcoming Windows Azure Dev Camps. I’ll be helping out with two in Denver (April 25) and Houston (April 29). The Dev Camps will provide you with an overview of Windows Azure and an opportunity to complete several Hands-on Labs, including topics such as IaaS and Azure […]

Are you in the US and interested in learning F#? Tomas Petricek will be giving the successful "Fast Track to F#" course on 30 April - 1 May in New York: This two day Fast Track to F# course is what you need to start using F# in practice and to get the most out of functional and concurrent programming concepts. The course is designed by F# experts Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford and builds on their real-world experience with F#.F# is increasingly used in domains such as finance, gaming, mobile and web deve[...]