F# Weekly #42, 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual Studio 2013 was released.
• If you are interested in getting involved in the F# community please visit FSSF page and add your name to the members list.
• Dmitry Morozov presented SqlCommand Type Provider with samples!
• Dave Thomas presented navigation feature for F# within Xamarin Studio.
• New F# sample project was added to xBehave.net.
• Open challenge: rewriting the FAKE globbing stuff in idiomatic F#.
• New opportunities:
  • “go to definition” for FSharp.Formatting API docs.
  • async support for F# in NUnit.
• New bunch of improvements were added to Matlab Type Provider.
• Check out the new F# book from No Starch Press.
• Check out F# event on lanyrd.com.
• Try Math Symbol extension for VS.

Video/Presentations

• “Software for Programming Cells” by Andrew Phillips.
• “Announcing a totally open game development process!” by Captain B-Rye. (using pure functional programming with F#)

Blogs

• Michael Newton shared “Introducing F# to Experienced Developers”.
• Nicolas Rolland posted “Heaps“.
• Neil Danson shared:
  • “A Platform game in F# and SpriteKit – Part 4 – Running and Scrolling“.
  • “A Platform game in F# and SpriteKit – Part 5 – Animation and Sound“.
  • “A Platform game in F# and SpriteKit – Part 5.5 – Sound Effects“.
  • “A Platform game in F# and SpriteKit – Part 6 – Death“.
• Gustavo Guerra blogged “F# for Screen Scraping“.
• Isaac Abraham wrote about “An Azure Type Provider for F# – first steps“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy posted “Last word in .NET build systems“.
• Lev Gorodinski blogged “Object-oriented Design Patterns From a Functional Perspective“.
• Natallie Baikevich wrote about “[F#] Dev Life’s Little Pleasures“.
• Sergey Tihon shared “‘F# Minsk : Getting started’ was held“.
• Tsunami wrote about “App Store for the rest of us“.
• Cameron Taggart posted “TFS with F# Make“.
• Matt Ball blogged “Test-first F# With Acceptance Testing and the REPL“.
• Jack Fox presented “FSharpTest: F# VS Test Project Template” (template).
• Onorio Catenacci shared “Prerequisites For F# and Android Development“.
• Anthony Brown posted “Adding animation to the platformer“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Safe refactoring with Units of Measure“.
• Mark Seemann wrote “Easy ASP.NET Web API DTOs with F# CLIMutable records“.
• Phil Trelford posted:
  • “DDD North 2013“.
  • “The Promise of Polygot Programming on .Net“.

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

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