F# Weekly #12, 2013

– “What can C# do that F# cannot?”
-“NullReferenceException :-)”
Tomas Petricek.

Welcome to F# Weekly,

Using this weekly, I would like  to introduce Nando de Freitas for everyone who interested in machine learning. He is a machine learning professor at UBC. He has an excellent YouTube channel with lots of interesting lectures. Follow him if you are  interested.

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• If you want F# support in Azure Mobile Services, please vote.
• Functional Programming course with materials in OCaml & F#.
• F# 3.0.25 is available on FreeBSD.
• An interesting discussion: how much should MS support/advocate F#?
• Meet Mac CorePlot bindings for Mono( F#-only) by Natallie Baikevich.
• Announce of FsMachines – A stream processing library for F#.
• Sequence verification support & quick method setup was included into Foq 0.9.
• Completion via menus in F# Emacs is coming soon to a package repository near you.
• A great answer to the question: “When should you use (or not) Math.NET  linear algebra?“.
• WebSharper.Google.Maps extension is an open source now.
• F# Notebook supports TEX equations and publishing from now.
• MbUnit.FSharp was released on NuGet.
• Extending async with await on tasks was published.
• Playing with the regObs OData API using F#.
• “F# needs an Akka. Fakka anyone?“

Videos

• Richard Broida talks on Asynchronous Programming with C#, VB.NET and F# at Bennett Adelson .NET SIG.
• “Excel-Funky-Functions-With-Tsunami” by Mathias Brandewinder.
• “F#, Type Providers, Functional and Reactive Programming” by Tomas Petricek.
• “Deploying Web Apps to the Cloud (Part 1)” by Tsunami IDE.
• Adam Granicz (Intellifactory) @ MLOC.JS

Blogs

• Jack Fox posted “F#: Already Engineered for Testability“.
• Mike Harris wrote about “Letter Occurrence“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy published “Automate, automate, automate..“.
• Taha Hachana shared “Canvas Drawing With WebSharper” with online demo.
• Simon Cousins blogged “JSON Converter for F# Map Type“.
• Adil Akhter wrote “UVa 136. Ugly Numbers“.
• Loic Denuziere announced “New FPish feature: E-mail notification“.
• Ryan Riley blogged “Web API and Dynamic Data Access“.
• Sergey Tihon published ““Why F#?” by F# Weekly“.
• Don Syme posted “Asynchronous Programming: From F# to Python“.

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

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