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I guess that it might be a bit too late for adding to your list of new year's resulution now. But just if you still have an empty slot (or in case an originally taken slot has become available), your new year's resolution should be to get involved with F#! Obviously, the goal of this blog post is to sell you some of my F# trainings and other materials - including the online course on F# in Finance and our FastTrack to F# course in London and New York and also the F# Deep Dives book. But to conceal this [...]

As 2015 dawns upon us, here’s a quick look  back at what I got up to in 2014.   I went to a few conferences and gave some talks: Modelling game economy with Neo4j at CodeMesh 14 My adventure with Elm at NDC London 14 Learn you to tame complex APIs with F# powered DSLs [...]

Well, we are in the last hours of 2014, and I am nearly recovered from the craziness that was the F# Europa Tour 2014, so here we go – the Tour, in cold, hard facts (after all, I am a numbers’ guy): 40 days of travelling across Europe. 16 talks. 5 workshops (about 50 hours total). 9 countries. 6991 miles (11,250 kilometers) travelled, roughly (this is straight-line city to city, so the actual number is probably a good deal larger). 14 hours of bus. roughly 50 hours of train. roughl[...]

2014 has been a good year, and it ended with a bang! With so many great talks to choose from, here are my top 10 most memorable talks I have attended/watched this year (not in any particular order since they have all taught me something different).   Kevlin Henney – Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of [...]