As momentum builds for the F# release with Visual Studio 2010, so too does the number of people blogging about the language.  This week we have a spec update, clarified comparisons, decision trees, porting gotchas and in depth explorations of the debug IL generated by F#.  Please do enjoy.   Speaking on F# at the Connecticut .NET ...

I’ve been working for a while on a new presentation which I was finally able to give last week at the New Hampshire .NET User Group.  F# and You! focuses on painting the big picture about F# instead of the off-putting details like having to learn new syntax.   For this new presentation I start by discussing the adoption of ...

A couple of months ago I was talking to Lou Franco, the head of our Software Engineering department and fellow functional programming enthusiast, about the possibility of using F# for projects in the future.  Being business minded, he replied that he would need a compelling reason to bring F# on board.  This presentation is dedicated to ...

This week Steve Horsfield continues his adventures with WPF while Matthew Podwysocki posts more on the .NET Event Model.  Meanwhile, John Harrop shares a video tutorial on F# interactive and Chris Smith provokes meta discussion on the best way to present F#.   Upcoming Events Houston F# Users Group – Meeting August 27th 7:00pm. ...

I will be speaking at tomorrow’s Code Camp Hartford 2 on the topic of using F# for the Testing and Analysis of existing code. This talk will be composed of much of the same material I used at Code Camp Waltham 11, although I will be preparing additional introductory material as many of my Waltham attendees had no prior exposure to F#.  I ...

Over the last six months I’ve given variations on the same F# presentation on six separate occasions.  Each time I’ve gotten a similar response: enthusiasm from a small percentage of the audience and glazed-over stares from the majority.  In retrospect it seems obvious that I’ve been missing one of the major tenets of making great ...

Yesterday, my coworker Lou Franco pointed me to a fantastic talk by Anders Hejlsberg on the future of programming languages.  In this talk Anders argues that the future of programming language development will be focused on three events: the explosion in the use of Dynamic Languages, the creation of many new Domain Specific Languages and the ...

I'll be at New England Code Camp 10 tomorrow giving another talk about functional programming and concurrency in F#.  It will be fairly similar to my previous talks in terms of ideas and content, however, I have put a lot of work into making the functional programming ideas easier to understand. The code samples have also been updated ...

I am down in Bloomfield, CT today at Hartford CodeCamp which has been put on by the Connecticut .NET Developer's Group. I just gave a very similar version my talk on the 5th. The room was completely full and I was a bit weak and foggy from my recent illness but with my audience's help I was able to pull together with a decent presentation. I am ...

I'm going to be giving a presentation at the my local .NET User's group tonight. The goal of my talk will be to expose the audience to F# as well as some Functional Programming Ideas.  Here's a basic rundown of what the talk is about (in order): - What F# is and why it's important- A very basic rundown of F# syntax- The ease of ...