Looking for an event where you could learn about F#? The second half of autumn will be a busy time with Progressive F# Tutorials happening at the beginning of November and the TechMesh Conference planned for the first week in December!

This article describes type-first development (TFD). A software development methodology that is quite common among functional programmers and uses types as a simple way of communicating ideas about program design.

This article is an invitation to a number of F# events at the end of summer and during autumn. Aside from F# trainings in New York and London, I will be also doing an F# tutorial at CUFP in Copenhagen.

Last week, I gave a talk on asynchronous programming in F# at QCon London. I used the one hour slot to implement a Social Rectangle Drawing App - an application that showed the importance of asynchronous workflows on both client-side and server-side.

A couple of months ago, I posted a list of my F# talks and courses for Autumn 2011. Although I tried hard to have fewer speaking engagements during the winter and spring, there are quite a few events that