F# Weekly #2, 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• StackOverflow was chosen as the best place for F# questions.(Voting)
• DSLs in Action samples translated to F#.
• Prerelease build for FAKE develop branch on NuGet was announced.
• Matt Ward presented “NuGet Addin for MonoDevelop“.
• CodeStock call for speakers is opened!
• Luca Bolognese published “Functional programming in C – Implementation“.
• Mono 3.0.3 is out! Now with a Concurrent Garbage Collector!
• Resources for Getting Started With Functional Programming and Scala was published.

Blogs & Tutorials

• Sergey Tihon presented “F# and FAST Search for SharePoint 2010“.
• Lev Gorodinski blogged about “Json.NET Type Converters for the F# Option, List and Tuple Types”.
• Jon Harrop shared a video “WPF desktop GUI app development in F# with VS Express 2012 for Web“.
• Venkatesh-Prasad Ran wrote about “My experience with F#, Groovy, and Python“.
• Donna Malayeri presented “Information Rich Programming with F# 3.0“.
• Michael Newton posted “Getting started with Fake – an introduction“.
• Steffen Forkmann updated “Getting started with FAKE” tutorial including NuGet package restore.
• Steffen Forkmann blogged “Using NuGet package restore with “FAKE – F# Make” – Get rid of the binaries in your source code repository“.
• Anh-Dung Phan presented “A cheatsheet for F#’s DSL-friendly features“.
• Dave Fancher posted “Concatenating PDFs with F# and PdfSharp“.
• Tao Liu described “Generated Type Provider API Changes“.
• Matt Ball shared “F# Wsdl Type Provider and Untrusted Server Certificates“.
• Ted Neward published “Review (in advance): F# Deep Dives“.
• Lincoln Atkinson posted “Posting to Twitter from F#“.
• @gab_km blogged about “Practical Introduction to NaturalSpec“.

Books

• Functional Programming using F# by Michael R. Hansen and Hans Rischel

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

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