32nd meetup with F# MVP Isaac Abraham – F# and the cloud

Hello dear friends of the user group

we are excited to invite you to our next meeting.
Our guest will be F# MVP Isaac Abraham, who is well-known in London for his community efforts. English will be the spoken language for this evening.

Please be invited to our next meeting:

Tuesday,[masked]
coffee, chat and entrance at 18:00 o’clock
start of presentation at 18:30 o’clock
at IT-Forum Rhein-Neckar, Im Zollhof 1, 67061 Ludwigshafen

Talk: Isaac Abraham (90 minutes)
A practical introduction: F# and the Cloud

F# is a mature, open source, cross-platform, functional-first programming language that that is rapidly growing in popularity as a viable companion and alternative to C# and VB .NET. With its succinct and expressive syntax, jaw-droppingly powerful features and vibrant community, it’s no wonder that many of the features being proposed for the next version of C# are based on F#!

This talk will introduce the F# language and ecosystem to you, and show you just a few of the reasons why using F# can drastically reduce both bug rates and time to market. We’ll see some compelling examples of how you can immediately start using it as a part of your existing day-to-day .NET application stack, and also see some amazing demos of how F# is pushing the boundaries in data access, cloud computing, distributed compute and solving big data problems.

About the speaker:

Isaac Abraham (https://cockneycoder.wordpress.com/) is an F# MVP and a .NET developer since .NET 1.0 with an interest in cloud computing and distributed data problems. He nowadays lives in both the UK and Germany, and is the director of Compositional IT. He specializes in consultancy, training and development, helping customers adopt high-quality, functional-first solutions on the .NET platform.

Regulars’ table (Stammtisch)

As always, we will continue the evening at 20:30 o’clock at the Italian Restaurant Tialini. The regulars’ table gives you enough time for networking, chatting, dinning and some bear with geeks:

Tuesday,[masked] at 20:30 o’clock
at Tialini, Im Zollhof 4, 67061 Ludwigshafen

Please remember:

The amount of seats is limited (max 30!). Please register at XING or meetup.com, so that we can estimate the amount of participants. As always, you are also welcome without a reservation!

You can park directly at the shopping center Rheingalerie (http://www.rheingalerie-ludwigshafen.de/das-center/anfahrt-parken/) (recommendation), in the parking deck Bürgerhof (http://www.contipark.de/find-parking/ludwigshafen-parkhaus-buergerhof/) or in the parking deck Zollhof 4. Please don’t try to park at the area of the Werfthalle. All slots are rented.

See you at the next meeting
Peter and Johannes