F# Weekly #22 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

So it’s summer, but F# Weekly is still with you. A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Please vote for F# support for semantic merge.
• Coding F# on an iPhone. Hosted Compiler Services coming soon! (with Tsunami)
• New portion of CloudSharper screenshots was published:
  • Charts in F# Interactive.
  • Compiling to JavaScript on-the-fly within F# Interactive.
  • Combining server-side and client-side functionality in a single expression inside FSI.
  • Building applications on the cloud using FAKE, NuGet, MSBuild.
• Learn how Microsoft’s Bio Computing Group is using F#.
• The full Lambda Jam Chicago schedule is now available.
• Lewis Brown’s project has been accepted to Summer of Code 2013! He’ll be working on F# refactoring for MonoDevelop.
• $2000 bounty for a TekPub presentation on F# “60 to 90min of what you can do with F# for people have never seen it”.
• FCell Add-In evaluation is now publicly available from Statfactory.
• ExtCore 0.8.23 is out with improved HashMap & HashSet, plus a new LruCache data structure.
• Want to know “Who is reading the “F# Weekly”?”, read this.
• http://razor.servicestack.net/ was successfully ported to Heroku, using F#.
• First preview version of Brahma.FSharp ispublished on NuGet (BrahmaFSharp is a F# quotation to OpenCL translator).

Videos/Presentations

• “F# on iPad and iPhone in Xamarin Studio” by Neil Danson.
• Tomas Petricek & Don Syme on Processing data with F# 3.0 and type providers.
• “Create Excel User Functions in C# and Visual Studio” by FCell.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder posted “Discretizing a continuous variable using entropy“.
• Richard Broida blogged series of posts in his A Sir Eel World (all source code is available on GitHub):
  • WATK in F#, Part 1: Building and Publishing Windows Azure Web Sites “WATK in F#, Part 2: Deploying an Azure Web Site with Git”.
  • WATK in F#, Part 2: Deploying an Azure Web Site with Git.
  • WATK in F#, Part 3: Using Entity Framework with an Azure Database.
• Valdis Iljuconoks posted “StyleCop, F# and Excel“.
• Don Syme posted “F# London Meetup this Thursday: F# on iPad and iPhone in Xamarin Studio with Neil Danson“.
• Don Syme wrote “Zurich FSharp Meetup: Embrace the Cloud with F# (Wednesday, May 29, 2013)“.
• Juan M Gomez wrote “Reaching the Nirvana: MvvmCross + Xamarin.iOS + FSharp“.
• Phil Trelford posted “Pissed off owls“.
• Gene Belitski posted “If Google would be looking to hire F# programmers – part 7“.
• Dave Thomas blogged “Some Kind of Monster“.
• Martin Trojer wrote “Scala and me“.

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

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