F# Weekly #25 2013

“Design patterns are bug reports against your programming language”

Peter Norvig

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Software Foundation is more and more active day by day. Want to know more and be involved? Join now!
• New beautiful FunScript web site was released!
• FsCheck (an automatic testing library for F#) is joined to the F# Open Source Community on GitHub.
• Nice to read: one more holly war discussion about Scala vs F#.
• Optimized F# reflection methods come to FSharpx.
• FunScript.Owin was announced (FunScript compilation middleware for OWIN).
• Markdown support in CloudSharper was announced.

Blogs

• Piet Amersfoort wrote “Increase your productivity with F# scripts (part 2)“.
• Pierre Irrmann shared “Alt.net Coding Breakfast – June 2013 Edition“.
• Mike Hadlow posted “Guest Post: Working Around F#/NuGet Problems“.
• Mauricio Scheffer posted “Optimizing with the help of FsCheck“.
• Cameron Taggart wrote “Making the .NET Open Source More Open“.
• Don Syme blogged “FunScript – F# to Javascript leveraging TypeScript metadata“.
• InfoQ posted “FunScript: Using the Power of F# for Writing Web Apps“.
• James posted “Hosting Websharper/ASP.NET apps on Linux with Mono + nginx“.
• Scott Wlaschin posted “Railway oriented programming: Carbonated edition“.

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

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