For those in the London area, there is a "Learn F# Hands On" session this Thursday evening at the London F# Meetup. All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert. In this regular meetup we'll take on one or more programming challenges in F#. All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert. This month we'll take a look at some the tasks on the excellent Try F# site. To get the most from the session please try and bring a laptop along with F# installed (ideally either MonoDevelop, Xamar[...]

The F# Software Foundation's Testimonials Page on http://fsharp.org is well worth a read. They are very inspiring! If you or your organization have been using F#, you can also submit your own testimonials using these simple instructions.  They can be your personal views, and you can anonymize as necessary. Don p.s.  For those who haven't heard, the F# Software Foundation (a.k.a "fsharp.org") is a community-led group. You can read its mission statement on the site. I think it is a great initiative that acts[...]

Steffen Forkmann has reported abot Stati-C/AL, a code analysis tool for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Christian Clausen and Bent Rasmussen created a really really cool static analysis tool for Dynamics NAV. For those who worked with the Dynamics NAV Developer’s Toolkit this is your new friend: Static analysis is dear to my heart as a way of improving programmer productivity, and I'm always impressed when people focus on the integration of languages and business products. And, it happens to be implemented in F#. [...]

I was particularly inspired by the latest F# Weekly from the F# Community (feed here). This edition really shows the incredible range of application of F# and activity in the F# community, from HTML5 GeoLocation examples using WebSharper to interoperability with Java to GPGPU programming to machine learning algorithms using Adaptive Boosting. Enjoy! Don   Welcome to F# Weekly, One more week has passed. This past week was full of interesting blog posts that are waiting for you: News Don Syme is 10000000th [...]

.Net 4 introduced the Lazy<T> type which allows you to create an object that can be lazily initialized so that you can delay the creation of large objects, for instance. However, if your initialization logic has the potential to except at runtime (e.g. time out exceptions reading from some external data source) then you should [...]