F# Weekly #27 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• “Indentation for val” was proposed on VS uservoice.
• The first version of F# code formatter addin for Visual Studio 2012 was released.
• Do not lose your points – up-vote your favorite ideas.
• The Extreme Optimization Numerical Libraries for .NET now support F# 3.1 row and column slicing and modules with functional programming operators (mapi, iteri…) for vectors and matrices.
• Visual F# Resources that should be accessible by fsharp.net. 😉
• WebSharper Snippets was released.
• Edge-fs npm module was published.
• Dave Thomas was managed to get Xamarin Studio to debug itself interactively.
• F#+Sage = New opportunity? (Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system)
• FSharp.Compiler.Editor was added to NuGet, this allows access to the F# compilers AST for tooling.
• ReSharper users who also use F# might want to weigh in on this issue.
• Tsunami uses 100% F# for the WPF UI. No C# / XAML layer cake.
• Interactively optimizing trading algos with F#, Tsunami, Matlab and TradersToolbox.
• Script your way to world domination with Minions! A drone fleet management plug-in for the budding dictator F#.
• Why does the F# compiler fail with this infix operator?

Videos/Presentations

• F# in Your Organization with Kit Eason.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Field notes: Coursera Machine Learning class“.
• Buddy James posted “Machine learning resources for .NET developers“.
• Don Syme published “FSCL – Compiling F# to OpenCL for High-Performance over Multi-core and Many-core devices“.
• Dawid Kowalski wrote “4 week challenge – up to speed with F#“.
• Jack Fox shared “Lambda Jam F# Bibliography“.
• What’s new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki?
• JaredPar blogged “Immutable isn’t just for parallel code“.
• Ivan Towlson posted “Func-ier and Func-ier“.
• Richard Minerich wrote “On Type Safety, Representable States and Erlang“.
• InfoQ posted “F# Moves Forward in 3.1 Preview Release”.
• Ross McKinlay blogged “Last-Fi“.
• Matthew Adams shared “Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Eight – Working With Logic“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Random Forest classification in F#: first cut“.
• Yan Cui wrote “Project Euler – Problem 60 Solution“.
• Dave Fancher blogged “Microsoft MVP – Visual F#“.
• Gene Belitski posted “Going Artistic with FSharp.Charting“.
• Gary Evans wrote “Picking with DirectX 11 and Bullet Physics“.
• Natallie Baikevich blogged “Days and Ghost Refinements“.
• Daniel Mohl posted “New Angular.js Option in the F#/C# MVC 4 SPA Project Template“.

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

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