Indexer If your have a type that represents a collection of values, adding a custom indexer gives you a natural way to index directly into the object using the .[ ] operator. Take this simple Calendar class for instance, which keeps a map (F# equivalent of a Dictionary<TKey, TValue>) of notes against DateTime values: By [...]

The MonoDevelop team have taken a leaf out of the Visual Studio team's book and started MonoDevelop User Voice. Here you can vote on MonoDevelop features and discuss them. One of the hot ticket items you might like to vote for right now is Full Support for F# from MonoDevelop. This would presumably build on this great initial work, which is now on GitHub. Don  

Just a quick note to say that my talk “The Combinator Approach to Programming Domain Specific Languages with F#” is now available on Skills Matter site. I’ve put the code on github. If you enjoyed the talk I’ll be giving it again at CodeKen, the conference formally know as Stackoverflow Dev Days, on 14th/15th November. Combinators are a really nice, and under appreciated, way to create DSLs and we go into them in depth on my Beginning F# course at Skills Matter. Book now for the march edition.

Microsoft Research Cambridge is seeking talented software developers to work on the Infer.NET project (http://research.microsoft.com/infernet). Infer.NET is a framework for developing and deploying machine learning and inference solutions. It has been developed within the Machine Learning and Perception group, which has an excellent track record of incorporating leading edge research into bestselling products including the body part recognition technology in Kinect for Xbox 360 and the advertising predicti[...]