F# Weekly #1, 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

А promising start of the new year:

News

• Quick F-AI update: added a Noisy-Or learner (BN EM) and introduced some “smart” log-arithmetic.
• Released FunScript NuGet package.
• SharpDevelop 4.3 Beta was released.
• Microsoft’s ‘Orleans’ cloud programming model gets a Halo test drive.
• “Add Support for F# Code-Behind ASP.NET” is currently a Top 5 ASP.NET request with > 500 votes.
• The XML provider in F# data library now supports recursive documents like XHTML. See “Global inference mode“.
• Luca Bolognese published “Functional programming in C – I“.
• Anton Kropp presented a super simple LL(1) recursive descent parser for csv lists.
• The CSV type provider now supports custom separators and “#N/A” values.
• Foq: an F# mocking library v0.5 now available on Nuget with an optional Linq Expression based API for C# & F#

Blogs & Tutorials

• Neil Danson shared “Mono and Mac“.
• Jonathan Allen posted “Introducing the F# Software Foundation“.
• Sebastian W wrote about “F# and MS CRM“.
• Fabian Scherschel published “A foundation for F#“.
• Steffen Forkmann blogged “F# and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Web Services“.
• Jerome Laban presented “Toying around with F# Queries, Rx, Portables Libraries, Windows [Phone] 8 and the Zip operator“.
• Saxon Matt posted “Adopting F#“.
• Dave Thomas published “MonoGame Subdivision and Platonics“.
• Colin Fang presented “A Simple Overview on How Pattern Match Compiles“.
• Steffen Forkmann blogged “F# and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 OData Services“.
• Jack Fox posted “Semantics and List-like Data Structures“.
• Darryl K. Taft published “F# Foundation: Taking Microsoft’s F# Language to a Higher Ground“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week and remember you can message me on twitter (@sergey_tihon) with any F# news.

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