Anniversary edition of F# Weekly #43, 2013 – One year together

Deer all,

A great thing happened this time one year ago – F# Weekly was born. It seems quite recently and at the same time was long ago. Many great things happened during this time, a lot of news were spread. I would like to invite you to feel the breath of nostalgia and look at first published weekly “F# Weekly #43, 2012“.

Thank you to all of you, for being with me all this time. F# Community is an excellent one, I am glad to be a part of it. You are awesome and it’s all thanks to you. Let’s make a small journey to the past and recall some news that occurred during this time.

Small F# time journey

• Visaul Studio 2013 was released with F# 3.1.
• Lots of new Type Providers were born.
• F# Community Affiliated Technical Groups come in sight.
• F# Community Projects were identified and some of them actually born during this year.
• F# Community was managed to collect great F# Testimonials.
• New F# User Groups appeared on the map.
• Excellent Expert F# 3.0 was published.
• F# became No. 26 on the latest TIOBE Index.
• Data Science is growing in F# (Fsharp.Data, RProvider, Deedle. Fsharp.Charting, VegaHub, Python Type Provider, Matlab Type Provider)
• F# fashion collection was arranged.
• fsharpforfunandprofit.com enriched with new gorgeous post series.
• Tsunami IDE, {m}-brace and tryfsharp.org v3.0 saw the light.
• Xamarin announced F# support.
• New thoughts and facts were established into “Why F#?“.

Of course, there happened much more than mentioned in the list. It is impossible to get all things in one small post. F# community is growing as well as a number of ongoing activities. It takes more and more time for me each week to get all news and summarize them; F# Weekly posts become longer. We grow and will change the world for the better soon – be in touch with F# Weekly ;).

Finally, F# Weekly #43, a roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Deedle: Exploratory data library for .NET is coming soon.
• Nee F# book was announced –“Understanding Functional Programming” by Scott Wlaschin.
• New site with docs for R Type Provider was published
• “Functional Programming using F#” by M.R.Hansen & H.Rischel (sources and slides)
• FsControl was released some days ago.
• F# static site generation is gains momentum.
• {m}brace version 0.4.4 has been released! Sign up for alpha testing.
• Go deeper in {m}-brace with Technical Overview.
• Using navigation bar and regions for F# works in VS2013.
• F# Visual Studio project template was published to VS gallery.
• New version of SqlCommand Type Provider was shipped.
• New version of PowerShell Type Provider was published.
• Foq 1.3 (mocking library for F#) was released.
• Steffen Forkmann is having an expedition to improve FAKE API docs. We have a unique opportunity – to spy on his daily diary (Day1, Day2, Day3, Day4, Day5, Day6, Day7, Day8, Day9, Day10, Day11, Day12, …)

Video/Presentations

• “F# for the Web with Type providers and FunScript” by Tomas Petricek
• “Community-Driven F#” by Rachel Reese.

Blogs

• Neil Danson posted “A Platform game in F# and SpriteKit – Part 7 – DSLs baby!“.
• Anthony Brown wrote about “F# interactive for level design“.
• Daniel Mohl shared “Progressive F# Tutorials 2013 in London“.
• Mauricio Scheffer blogged “Towards a NuGet dependency monitor with OData and F#“.
• Danny Warren wrote “C# to F#: I’m a Convert“.
• Onorio Catenacci posted “Slick Use Case For Active Patterns“.
• Scott Wlaschin started new “Understanding monoids” series:
  • “Monoids without tears“
  • “Monoids in practice“
• Don Syme blogged “Code Outlining for Visual F# in VS2010, VS2012 and VS2013“.
• Sergey Tihon posted “Stanford CoreNLP is available on NuGet for F#/C# devs“.
• Richard Dalton wrote about “F# and Databases“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #42