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
- 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.
Previous F# Weekly edition – #25

Hey –
Your last post [F# Weekly #26 2013] was freaking awesome. I have gone ahead and added your stuff to my Feedly account. Please keep me updated if you post anywhere else.
Keep rocking –
Jon