I'm very pleased to see that the latest and greatest Try F# 3.0 has been released today!  Try F# is a web-based tool for learning and exploring F# 3.0, a simple and pragmatic programming language combining functional, object-oriented and information-rich programming. F# is open source and cross-platform, see the F# Software Foundation for details. Microsoft contribute to F# in multiple ways, including the Visual F# tools. This site allows easy learning of key F# principles, creating, editing and running F#[...]

This article introduces a new F# package that makes it possible to write literate F# programs that combine code with documentation. Given an F# script with a special comments or Markdown document with F# code, you get a nicely formatted HTML that can be used to build documentation or write blogs.

I am still toying with the idea of using FSI from within Excel – wouldn’t it be nice if, instead of having to resort to VBA or C# via VSTO, I could leverage F#, with unfettered access to .NET and a nice scripting language, while having at my disposal things like the charting abilities of Excel? Judging from the discussion on Twitter this morning, it seems I am not the only one to like the idea of F# in Excel: @jonharrop @dnesteruk @7sharp9 @dsyme the F# plugin for MonoDevelop & tryfsharp.org can provide a[...]

  The F# Open Source Group has developed a super-powerful F# Emacs mode, including Intellisense auto-completion, errors-in-current-file, go-to-definition and tooltip support for types/documentation for functions etc. This brings much of the power of F# visual editing to a more traditional (and very widely used) text-editor environment, across multiple platforms, and supports F# 3.0 including type providers etc. The work is nearing the end of the prototype phase and I'd encourage those of you who use Emacs [...]

To celebrate the arrival of a new year, we have launched a number of new years in Here Be Monsters. New Trophy System First off, we have introduced a new Trophy system into the game which gives you milestones to aim for as you’re freely exploring the game, not to mention a tidy bit of [...]