F# Weekly #48, 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# 3.1 Compiler/Library Code Drop was announced!
• Don Syme presented Xenomorph Type Provider.
• FsProjects(F# Community Space for incubating open community projects) was formed.
• New release of SqlCommandProvider and docs.
• F# binding auto-complete running in SublimeText 3.
• All existing StanfordNLP NuGet packages were updated up to v3.3.0.
• FSharp.Owin has a new name – Dyfrig.
• Use F# in Excel without Tsunami! Code Editor is now part of FCell!
• Simple web servers with Suave.
• New F# introductory programming class to be taught at Bellevue College starting 1/25.
• New cross-functional (F#, Haskell, …) meetup group was formed in Copenhagen.
• Ryan Riley ‏is working on a big change for Frank-fs and would appreciate any feedback.
• Which F# community project has the best logo? Vote by replying to this tweet.

Video/Presentations

• “Reasonable Code with F#” by Mike Falanga
• “Simpler Data Access and Smarter Calculations” by Paulmichael Blasucci.
• “Intro to F# pattern matching” by Stephen Olsen.
• “Using F# to change the way we work” by Jon Harrop.
• “F# in Finance Tour” by Phil Trelford
• “F# and Financial Data Making Data Analysis Simple” by Tomas Petricek.
• “F# in the cloud” by Yan Cui.
• “Calling and extending the F# compiler” by Don Syme & Tomas Petricek.

Blogs

• Xenomorph blogged “Putting the F# in Finance with TimeScape“.
• Cyan By Fuchsia posted “FsUnit and Visual Studio 2013 “Could not load file or assembly ‘FSharp.Core, Version=4.0.0.0 …’“.
• Jamie Dixon wrote about “F# and SignalR Stock Ticker Example“.
• Vasily Kalugin wrote “Silverlight F# (Fsharp + XAML) application. Access to WebCam using only F#“.
• Don Syme wrote “Announcing the F# 3.1 Compiler/Library Code Drop (from the Visual F# Tools Team at Microsoft)“
• Don Syme blogged “Putting the F# in Finance with Xenomorph TimeScape: A World of Financial Data at your Fingertips, Strongly Tooled and Strongly Typed“.
• Don Syme blogged “How to contribute to the F# support in Xamarin Studio, Emacs and more“.
• Don Syme blogged “Microsoft’s “F# in Finance” in London – Initial Report“.
• Christoph Rüegg wrote “Test Your C# or F# Library on Mono With Vagrant“.
• Daniel Mohl posted “Adding New Items to a Pure F# ASP.NET MVC/Web API Project“.
• http://www.geekswithblogs.net published “Running Session Scripts with F#“.
• Antonio Parata wrote about “Words permutation for passwords generation“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #47