F# Weekly #26 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

It was an adorable week! There are lots of great things happened:

News

• Pre-release of F# 3.1 was announced (reddit)
• From now, Visual F# tooling can be updated more frequently, and independently of Visual Studio.
• NuGet 2.6 was released with New official Microsoft package feed.
• A technical overview of {m}brace was published.
• VS 2012 Update 3 fixes the HintPath bug which happened when you updated a NuGet package in an F# project.
• FSM.NET has been released on NuGet.
• Tsunami Reader – A RSS Reader F# Type Provider. Soon to have more features than Google Reader.
• FSharp.NLP.Stanford.Parser was announced (available on NuGet).
• FSharpx 1.8.29 was released. Excel type provider works without Excel, very fast Reflection and lots of smaller fixes.
• All F# Stanford NLP samples were updated up to the latest Stanford libraries and latest IKVM.
• There is some plans for a F# SignalR TypeProvider to be used in FunScript. If you want to help please contact @mark_dj.
• Want Alt+Enter to work in ReSharper AND send to F# Interactive? Check out this plugin.
• New idea was added to Visual Studio User Voice: “add support for Windows Store apps written in F# … show that F# can be superior to C# even when it comes to more common tasks like GUI dev“.
• Tsunami IDE was moved from Google Groups to Discourse.

Videos/Presentations

• “Keynote – Scala with Style” by Martin Odersky (Dmitry Morozov  said “Worthwhile to watch for any #fsharp dev. Start at #19 if you’re solid in FP.Key takeaway – I’m so happy to be F#dev.“)
• “1GAM June: FShoot” by Gareth Williams
• “Last-Fi -An F# powered Raspberry Pi internet radio” by Ross McKinlay.
• “.NET Rocks – Functional Programming Panel: Type systems and static typing – saving your ass or getting in your face” from NDCOslo. (audio only)
• “Succeeding with Functional-first Programming in Industry” by Don Syme.
• “Making Magic: Combining Data, Information, Services and Programming, at Internet-Scale” by Don Syme.
• “Clarity of Intent” by Paulmichael Blasucci.

Blogs

• Sergey Tihon wrote some posts
  • Selective crawling in SharePoint 2010 (with F# & Selenium).
  • Confluence/Jira communication from F# and C#.
  • FSharp.NLP.Stanford.Parser available on NuGet.
  • Declarative authorization in REST services in SharePoint with F# and ServiceStack.
• Scott Wlaschin published “Railway oriented programming: Carbonated edition“.
• Dave Thomas blogged “Can I Have Some F# With That?” (Quick post on adding F# support to ScriptCs)
• John Liao posted “Riak CAP Tuning and F#“.
• Immo Landwerth posted “Please welcome ImmutableArray<T>“.
• Yan Cui wrote about “Customizing document styles with FSharp.Markdown.Pdf“.
• Gareth Williams wrote “1GAM June: FShoot“.
• Heather Cynede shared “Building the source without project files“.
• Visual Studio FSharp Team blogged “We are proud to announce a pre-release of F# 3.1 and Visual F# tools in VS 2013“.
• Richard Broida posted “WATK in F#, Part 6: Debugging Applications in Windows Azure“.
• Paul Grenyer shared “NorDev1 Review: Liz Keogh: Lean vs. Agile: Fight! & Phil Trelford: F# eye for the C# guy“.
• Loic Denuziere wrote “XML computation expressions: Playing around with extending the F# compiler“.
• Neil Danson blogged “Types, types, types(A (short) journey through type definitions)“.

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

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