Don Syme's WebLog

Just to mention that there will be a talk on F# 3.0 at TechDays France in Paris, on February 7, at 4pm....

I'm catching up on blogging about what's been going on in F# lately....

Is it time to learn something new?...

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Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I post links to F# jobs as a courtesy to the F# community....

An F# Meetup Group in Seattle has now been launched by Tao Liu on the F# team. (It's only just been created, so get in early!)...

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Tomorrow the NYC F# meetup group will hear from Jack Pappas. (Note: I think there is a waiting list for this event, but hopefully a larger room can be organized? Or perhaps a repeat of the event?)...

Gordon has a blog post on F# agents with timeouts...

Over on the F# team blog we've announced Updates to the August 2011 F# 2.0 Compiler Code Drop...

Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I post pointers to technologies that work with F#, as a service to the F# community. I've blogged in the past about other maths and stats libraries that work with F#, and am adding another one today!...

Tonight my colleague Byron Cook from MSR Cambridge will be speaking at the F#unctional Londoners meetup group...

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....

Microsoft Research Cambridge is seeking talented software developers to work on the Infer.NET project (http://research.microsoft.com/infernet)....

For those in the UK or Europe, there are a set of F# tutorials at SkillsMatter in London on Thursday and Friday this week (Nov 3-4)...

Microsoft Research in Cambridge has ongoing Post-doctorate positions open for very high quality recent PhD-level graduates, and internships for current PhD candidates. I would like to encourage potential candidates interested in the field of web-delivered, data-rich cloud programming. Think of...

Would you like to see other teams at Microsoft doing specific things to support F# better? Then now you have a great way to let them know! For example, lets say you would like the .NET CLR to implement more and better floating point optimizations around SSE4, AVX etc. Then go and add your votes ...

 Visual Studio now has a great site where you can enter and vote on features for languages and otehr aspects of Visual Studio. ...

Today's the day to say it loud and clear: I'm an Apple II kid.......