I'm catching up on blogging about what's been going on in F# lately. One thing that happened over the vacation is that the F# HTML5/Mobile development tool called WebSharper is now open source, and free for use for open source projects (details on the site). There is also a community project called Pit (also on github) which compiles F# to JavaScript, and which I'll write about separately. You can use these today in conjunction with F# 2.0 in Visual Studio 2010. With WebSharper there is ASP.NET integration[...]

This is going to be a new series on using TPL Dataflow with F#. First a little bit of history and background. TPL Dataflows heritage and background TPL Dataflow or (TDF) has been around for quite a while, it first surfaced more than a year ago as the successor to the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) and with coming release of .Net 4.5 it will be part of the System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow namespace. Elements of the now halted project Axum are also present within the design of TDF. Concurrenc[...]

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Is it time to learn something new? Training is key to growing F# adoption and understanding in your enterprise, as well as increasing the skillbase of your C# and other programmers mroe generally. Here are some links to F# training courses in London in January and February, from the wonderful Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford Functional Programming in .NET (in London on 30 January and 16 April)    The course is designed for developers with some C# background who want to become better programmers and learn [...]

  At last, Microsoft have released its long awaited Cloud Numerics library!!! A huge congratulations to the Cloud Numerics team (follow their blog!), and I encourage everyone in the F# community to be looking at the use of these wonderful technologies together. The recently announced library is a great fit for F# analytical computing. The Cloud Numerics team have posted some examples of how to use this library in F#, and learn how to do distributed numerics on Azure with F#. This post walks through the ste[...]