F# Weekly #40, 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FlexSearch (new F# based open source search engine) was announced.
• FAKE has updated documentations.
• Do not miss F# Community Projects list.
• A new version of F# charting on NuGet, now with better handling of dates.
• Foq 1.2 was released on NuGet.
• F# interactive in Sublime works on Mac.
• “The results speak for themselves.” – a new F# testimonial.
• FAKE is looking for testimonials.
• WebSharper IRC channel was announced.
• Interesting Excel type provider with external schema definition written in F#.
• FsCoreSerializer is renamed to FsPickler.
• {m}brace presented their team.
• Detroit FSharp group was created on LinkedIn.
• WebSharper 2.5 includes WebGL bindings.
• Chris Holt have ported code from functional composition presentation to F#.

Blogs

• Phillip Trelford posted “Functional Game Jam: Platform recommendations“.
• Onorio Catenacci shared “F# Tip Of The Week (30 September 2013)“.
• {m}brace published “PLOS ’13 follow-up“.
• Onorio Catenacci blogged “Functional Programming Makes Simple Easy“.
• Tsunami wrote about “Who is Tsunami for?“.
• Mark Seemann wrote “How to create a pure F# ASP.NET Web API project“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy blogged “WebSharper vs FunScript“.
• Mark Seemann posted “Running a pure F# Web API on Azure Web Site“.
• Isaac Abraham posted “A refresher on Async“.
• Boris blogged “Computing Self-Organizing Maps in a Massively Parallel Way with CUDA. Part 2: Algorithms“.
• César López-Natarén wrote “Introduction to F#“.
• The .NET Team blogged “RyuJIT: The next-generation JIT compiler for .NET“.
• Joseph Rickert wrote about “R and Data Week 2013“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #39