F# Weekly #41, 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Type Provider for Azure is coming, any help is appreciated.
• F# EventSource (An F# library of Server-Sent Events) was announced.
• UK Trains 2.0 was submitted to Windows Phone store.
• OWIN support is coming to fracture.
• New F# is coming from Dave Fancher.
• Canopy was presented in Kiev (photo1, photo2).
• New F# binding features include: Type provider completion parameters, completion list aggregation, Integrated compiler.
• F# Implementation of Quake III on the Mono Runtime.
• New Math.NET documentation using FSharp.Formatting.

Video/Presentations

• “F# Eye for the C# Guy” by Phil Trelford
• “F# for C# devs” by Mathias Brandewinder

Blogs

• Anthony Brown shared “Making a platformer in F# with MonoGame“.
• Phil Trelford wrote about
  • “Autumn F# Events 2013“.
  • “5 lesser known F# testing tools & techniques“.
• Luke Sandell posted “XML Transformations with F#“.
• Danny Warren wrote “C# to F#: My Initial Experience and Reflections“.
• Neil Danson shared
  • “A Platform game in SpriteKit and F# – Part 1 – Game State Management“.
  • “A Platform game in SpriteKit and F# – Part 2 – Start building a level“
  • “A Platform game in SpriteKit and F# – Part 3 – A Jumping dude“
• Jon Harrop posted
  • “Fun with infinite power series“.
  • “Removing image borders“.
  • “Scribble app in 12 lines of F#“.
  • “A thread-safe object cache that doesn’t leak“
• Kit Eason blogged
  • “You’re looking a little flushed“.
  • “Calculating cumulative binomial distribution probability“
• Matt Ball published “Adopting F#, Part III“.
• Richard Dalton posted “Learning to think Functionally -> Why I still don’t understand Single Case Active Patterns“.
• Tsunami blogged “Classifying Digits with Deep Belief Nets – Tsunami Sample“.

• Isaac Abraham wrote “Trying F# – are you a developer or a mouse?“.

• Onorio Catenacci shared “F# Tip Of The Week (14 October 2013)“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #40