F# Weekly #46, 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Deedle (Data manipulation library for F# and C# inspired by Pandas) was announced!
• PCL and .NET NuGet Libraries are now enabled for Xamarin!
• Try Deedle in 10 minutes using F#!
• Http.fs (An HTTP client library for F#) was announced.
• GestIT is growing and becoming a great runtime support for F#.
• F# community will be presenting at the MVP Showcase, Sunday, November 17!
• User voice for F# Binding! Please vote for what features you would like to see.
• Happy anniversary – 4 years of NashFP!
• Some updates in F# fashion collection.
• RProvider v1.0.5 published with OS X and Linux support and some fixes.
• Reminder: If you’re using F# in production please add a testimonial to fsharp.org/testimonials.
• Alea.cuBase 1.2.680 was released.
• Xamarin Studio 4.2 is out!
• Presto.io is a new Type Provider candidate.
• FAKE support MSTest from now.
• SqlCommandTypeProvider 1.0.12 was released.
• FSharpPlus (Extensions for F#) was pre-released.
• Windows Azure Type Provider was published on NuGet.

Video/Presentations

• “Deedle Effective Data and Time Series Analysis” by Tomas Petricek and Howard Mansell. (samples)
• “Discovering Type Providers in F# 3.0” by Rachel Reese.
• “Concurrent Applications with F# Agents” by Rachel Reese.
• “BDD with `tick spec`” by Phil Trelford.
• “Machine Learning: Progressive F#” by Matthew Moloney.
• “MBrace: Cloud Computing with Monads” by {m}brace.
• “Business Intelligence via Natural Language Search (Designing a Query Engine for Capital Markets Data)” by Joel Bjornson.

Blogs

• Gustavo Guerra blogged “Higher Order List Operations Across Languages“.
• Daniel Mohl posted “A Few Changes to the F#/C# MVC 4 Project Template“.
• Jamie Dixon wrote “2013 TRINUG Code Camp“.
• Grant Crofton posted “Hello Neurons – ENCOG Neural Network XOR example in F#“
• Richard Dalton wrote about “Enriching Data with F#“.
• César López-Natarén blogged “Managing Git workflow with MindTouch PullRequestService“.
• Don Syme posted ““F# in Finance” – London – Monday, 25 Nov 2013“.
• Grant Crofton blogged “Web requests in F# now easy! Introducing Http.fs“.
• Don Syme posted “Announcing Deedle – Data Frame and Time Series Package for Exploratory Data Programming with F# and C#“.
• Larry O’Brien blogged “F# iOS Program: 39 lines of code“.
• Onorio Catenacci wrote “I Am Tired Of Swimming Against The Current“.
• Ademar Gonzalez wrote about “Hosting a static website with Suave“.
• Lincoln Atkinson blogged “Selecting a random element from a linked list – 3 approaches in F#“.
• David Tchepak posted “More freedom from side-effects (F#)“.
• Nat Friedman posted “Microsoft and Xamarin Partner Globally to Help You Build Great Apps“.
• Michał Łusiak wrote about “Lots of love for F# during Øredev“.
• Faisal Waris shared “Performance Improvements From 2010 – 2013 (due to hardware and .Net improvements)“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #45