Prisoner's Dilemma Coding dojo with Tomas Petricek

Featuring Tomas Petricek

We will spend the evening writing game strategies for the "iterated prisoner's dilemma" problem. This is a simple round-based game with two players. In each round, each player can choose to cooperate with or betray the other play. If you betray but the opponent cooperates, you win 3...

Rethinking Compilers With Live Coding

Featuring Tomas Petricek

Live coding environments run your program on-the-fly as you write it. This makes development easier, but it is a challenge for compiler writers - textbook compiler architecture does not work for live coding systems.

Functionalist programming language design

Featuring Tomas Petricek

Building your own Elmish web apps with F# and Fable

Featuring Tomas Petricek

This is a hands-on session, so bring your own laptop with F# and Fable installed! To get everything ready, follow the Fable getting started instructions at: http://fable.io/docs/getting-started.html …

Writing user interfaces in a functional way should be impossible - functional languages...

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How to be a Rock Star Developer with Tomas Petricek & Phillip Trelford (& Son)!

Featuring Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford

You’ve seen the adverts from agents seeking rock star and ninja developers, but what does that even mean? In this session, we’ll look at what it takes to be a true rock star developer and we’ll also venture into the space of rock star data scientists. Like true rock stars, we’ll eschew software...

Observables, Events, Asynchronous Sequences and Other Wild Animals - Audience Level: Mixed

Featuring Tomas Petricek

F# added support for asynchronous workflows 10 years ago, so you would think that the problem of asynchronous programming should have been fixed by now. Yet, if you try to make sense of the different abstractions for asynchronous programming, it is easy to get lost! What is the difference between...

Visualizing Olympic Medals with F# and Fable

Featuring Tomas Petricek

What if you could look at the source code behind any online visualization, check what data sources it uses, reproduce the results and modify any of its parameters?

Park Bench Panel Session with #ProgFSharp experts!

Featuring Tomas Petricek

Park Bench Panel Session with #ProgFSharp experts!

Fable, the F# compiler that generates JavaScript you can be proud of!

Featuring Tomas Petricek

Fable is an open source compiler that brings all the power of F# to JavaScript: the functional paradigm, static typing with type inference, pattern matching, type providers and a so on. Besides a comprehensive library to handle collections, text, observables and more, which translates to less...

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Building a chatbot therapist

Featuring Tomas Petricek and Evelina Gabasova

This year has seen a boom in chatbots, they are appearing everywhere online. In this tutorial, we'll look at how to build one from scratch. You'll see what are the necessary parts of any chatbot and how do they integrate with each other - from processing user input to deployment....

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Hacking Web Stuff with F#

Featuring Phil Trelford and Tomas Petricek

Want to learn more about F# libraries? Then join this talk with Phil Telford & Tomas Petricek. Please be sure to register as seating is limited.

Celebrating New Year's Eve with F# and Suave

Featuring Tomas Petricek

You would expect that the largest number of "Happy New Year" tweets would in every part of the world would appear around the midnight of December 31. But can we nicely visualize the live stream of tweets and see the tweets live as the old year comes to its end?

I'll talk about a...

Functional web development with F#

Featuring Tomas Petricek

One of the myths about F# and functional programming is that it is only good for complex mathematics. This could not be further from truth. A web server is essentially a function from a request to a response and so functional programming is a perfect fit for it.

Suave Hands On With Tomas Petricek

Featuring Tomas Petricek

Suave is a lightweight, non-blocking web server. The non-blocking I/O model is efficient and suitable for building fast, scalable network applications. In fact, Suave is written in a completely non-blocking fashion throughout. Suave runs on Linux, OS X and Windows flawlessly. In this hands on...

The Big F# and Open-Source Love Story

Featuring Tomas Petricek

True open-source is not about having the source code available on GitHub. It is about the community and the mentality in the community. In this talk, I’ll look at the thing that I love the most about F# - the active open-source community around it. You can see the spirit when you watch how people...

Literate_programmin­g.With("F#"­)

Featuring Tomas Petricek

In this session, long time F# enthusiast Tomas Petricek will talk about the F# tools for literate programming, including the F# Formatting library (which parses literate F# and Markdown), ProjectScaffold (a template for projects that lets you write literate documentation) and FsReveal (a tool for...

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Calling and extending the F# compiler

Featuring Tomas Petricek and Don Syme

In this tutorial, we’ll look under the cover of the F# compiler. We’ll explore how editors and tools can call the F# compiler API to parse and type check F# code.

Deedle: Effective Data & Time Series Analysis Hands On with Tomas Petricek

Featuring Tomas Petricek

Would you like to find out more about Deedle, a new open-source library for data and time series manipulation? Then join Tomas who will explain how Deedle supports a wide range of operations such as slicing, joining and aligning, handling of missing values, grouping and aggregation, statistics...

Deedle: Effective Data & Time Series Analysis with Tomas Petricek

Featuring Tomas Petricek

Are you interested in “data science” and F#? Would you like to learn how to use Deedle , the new open-source library for data and time series manipulation? Check out this talk on Deedle and F#!

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FCell: Numerical Development in Excel w/ F#

Featuring Tomas Petricek and Adam Mlocek

Are your Excel Add-Ins difficult to develop, test and deploy? Frustrated with C++, VSTO or VBA based solutions? Or maybe you would simply love to run interactive F# scripts within Excel? Come and learn about FCell Add-In, an integrated F# development platform embedded in Excel.

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Calling and extending the F# compiler

Featuring Don Syme and Tomas Petricek

In this tutorial, we’ll look under the cover of the F# compiler. We’ll explore how editors and tools can call the F# compiler API to parse and type check F# code.

Machine Learning Hands On with F#

Featuring Tomas Petricek

In this regular meetup we'll take on one or more programming challenges in F#. All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert. This month we'll go hands on with a Machine Learning introduction in F#.

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Processing data with F# 3.0 and type providers

Featuring Tomas Petricek and Don Syme

In this tutorial, we will look how to easily access a wide range of data sources including Databases, XML and JSON files and REST services, how to process the data in a clear succinct style and how to expose the result as a REST service.

F# Type Providers Hands On

Featuring Tomas Petricek

In this regular meetup we'll take on one or more programming challenges in F#. All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert. This month we'll go hands on with Type Providers with Tomas Petricek.

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Try F# Hands On

Featuring Phil Trelford and Tomas Petricek

In this regular meetup we'll take on one or more programming challenges in F#. All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert.

This month we'll take a look at some the tasks on the excellent Try F# site.

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Coding Kata

Featuring Phil Trelford and Tomas Petricek

In this session we'll break up in to teams and solve a fun coding puzzle (Code Kata) in F#, to help learn aspects of the language and explore new features.

BRING A LAPTOP!

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F# Foundation

Featuring Phil Trelford and Tomas Petricek

Phil Trelford & Tomas Petricek deliver a brief introduction to the newly formed F# Foundation.

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Processing concurrent time-series data

Featuring Tomas Petricek and Simon Cousins

Computer systems in energy, finance or cloud computing need to process time-series data that are produced concurrently by a number of data sources. In this talk, you’ll learn how to process and analyse such data in F# using agents.

Programming with the stars!

Featuring Tomas Petricek

This is a hands-on session, designed to help you shift into the functional mindset. Many programming articles set out a problem and give a completed solution, but leave out the steps in the middle. In this session our programming stars will be given a set of problems to solve, and they will...

Coding Kata: Writing Markdown parser

Featuring Tomas Petricek

In this session, we’ll look how to write parser for the Markdown document format in F#. We’ll start by writing the parser in a direct style and then evolve it using the power of F# active patterns.

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Domain-specific languages in F#

Featuring Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford

When designing software, developers often need to solve numerous instances of a single problem. Examples include writing business rules engine, detecting patterns in changing prices and many others. Domain specific languages (DSLs) provide a powerful mechanism for solving such problems – by...

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Adv Track - Numerical Computing with F#

Featuring Tomas Petricek and Adam Mlocek

Many developers need to implement solutions which require some math or stat modelling. In this session we will show you how F# allows us to write elegant and expressive numerical code. You will work with matrices, random number generators and linear solvers.

F# Domain Specific Languages for Finance

Featuring Tomas Petricek

In this code-focused session, Tomas Petricek will look at developing DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) for the financial domain in F#

F#'s Type Providers In Depth

Featuring Tomas Petricek

The purpose of most of the real-world applications is to process data that are available in external data sources such as databases and XML files or obtained using a web service or REST API. Accessing such data sources in a typed way is difficult, because the compiler does not understand the...

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Data access in F#, Today and Tomorrow

Featuring Tomas Petricek and Phil Trelford

Tomas Petricek & Phil Trelford: Most of the real-world applications are written to work with data, yet accessing data in .NET is often quite painful.

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Asynchronous Programming

Featuring Tomas Petricek and Simon Cousins

Tomas Petricek & Simon Cousins: Asynchronous programming is the key to writing scalable server-side applications, but it also enables programming models that let you better structure your applications.

Asynchronous C# and F#

Featuring Tomas Petricek

Tomas Petricek will give a talk for F#LUG on Asynchronous C# and F#.

F# on the server-side

Featuring Tomas Petricek

Server-side applications are interesting because they concurrently handle multiple requests in parallel. On systems where threads are expensive, it is important to do this without unnecessary blocking of system threads. In this talk, we'll look how to use F# synchronous workflows to implement...

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TickSpec – BDD for C# & F# & Writing concurrent applications using agents

Featuring Phil Trelford and Tomas Petricek

TickSpec is a lightweight Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) framework for C# and F#. Specify the behaviour of your system in plain text with the Gherkin business language. Then run and debug your text specifications from inside Visual Studio.

Reactive Programming in F-sharp

Featuring Tomas Petricek

Tomas Petricek will talk about his most recent favourite F# programming area - reactive programming.