F# Weekly #20 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

This past week was full of interesting events and happenings. If you follow F#, you must read all of this carefully. The roundup of F# content:

News

• F# is now available on FreeBSD!
• Matlab Type Provider is available now.
• Does F# need a type-safe data-frame library? How should it look? (Discuss here)
• Ensure you have your say and vote or contribute to F# user voice.
• If you like F#, let MSR know about it.
• Just released a new beta of Tsunami IDE! Excel support back in as are 3rd party plugins.
• If you know any women interested in functional programming, let them know about lambdaladies.com.
• Updated F# Formatting is now on NuGet – with better line-number formatting, tables & Latex support.
• Functional Programming Using F# is available now.
• Record improvements were merged into MongoDB.FSharp.
• Time to vote for the sessions you want to see at DDD East Anglia in Cambridge on June 29th.
• Follow @FCellAddIn to get updates about FCell, integrating F# and C# with Excel.
• Cleaned-up version of LazyList was added to ExtCore.
• Free personal licenses for Alea.cuBase are available.
• The Manifesto for Not Only Object-Oriented Development now in Czech/Danish/French/German/Russian/Spanish.

Videos/Presentations

• “Functional DSLs for Biocomputation” by Colin Gravill.
• “Building a MMORPG with F#” by Yan Cui. (post)

Blogs

• Michael Bayne posted “F# Cheat Sheet“.
• Gustavo Guerra blogged “Building Type Providers – Part 1“.(!!!hot!!!)
• Don Syme posted “F# on FreeBSD“.
• Yossi Kreinin shared “Parallelism and concurrency need different tools“.
• Damir Arh published “Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development With F#“.
• John Liao wrote “Riak Links and Link Walking with F# and CorrugatedIron“.
• Nick Palladinos posted Clojure’s Reducers in F#.
• Tomas Petricek blogged “Power of mathematics: Reasoning about functional types“.
• Phil Trelford announced “F# UK ton of Meetups“.
• Richard Dalton wrote about “Learning to think Functionally: Memoization“.
• Juan M Gomez published “Reaching the Nirvana: MvvmCross + Xamarin.iOS + FSharp“.

• Scott Wlaschin posted “How to design and code a complete program“.

• Scott Wlaschin posted “Railway oriented programming“.(!!!hot!!!)
• Scott Wlaschin posted “Why I won’t be writing a monad tutorial“.
• Sergey Tihon shared “Live tweets from Alea.cuBase F#-for-financial-GPU event in London.“
• Phil Trelford wrote about “F# Deep Dives“.
• Lincoln Atkinson blogged “A Twitter search client in 10 lines of code with F# and the JSON type provider“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “Three easy ways to create simple Web Server with F#“.
• Gene Belitski posted “If Google would be looking to hire F# programmers – part 5“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #19