F# Weekly #50, 2013

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# jumped to 20th place of TIOBE index.
• Doing F# in free time? Start a new open source project from FSharp.ProjectScaffold template!
• New (version 4.0.4) fszmq is released with shiny new website (fszmq has been officially accepted into the ZeroMQ community organization).
• Phillip Trelford presented Resource File Type Provider (BitBucket repo).
• Steffen Forkmann presented DynamicsNAVProvider.
• Yan Cui presented Amazon S3 Type Provider.
• Ross McKinlay presented new SQL Provider.
• New FsPickler performance test results became available.
• LinqOptimizer 0.4.1 is on NuGet for F# and C#.
• FsLab is not a myth anymore!
• C# 6.0 looks more and more like F# with nulls.
• With NAudio, F# and Excel Kit Eason can produce a graph of what a plucked guitar string is doing.
• New features for Azure type provider are welcome.
• WebSharper 2.5 is available on NuGet.
• Canopy v0.9.0 was released.
• F# MVC 5 project template already available.

Video/Presentations

• “Parallel Thinking” by Guy E. Blelloch
• “Doing Data Science with F#” by Tomas Petricek.

Blogs

• Nikos Baxevanis posted “Semantic Equality Comparison in F#“.
• Daniel Mohl wrote about “A Few Other Template Additions and Changes of Interest“.
• Ross McKinlay blogged “The Erasing SQL type provider (codename John)“.
• Dmitry Sevastianov wrote “Simple bond valuation“.
• Jamie Dixon posted:
  • “F# > C# when doing math“.
  • “The Big Ten and F#“.
• Tomas Petricek wrote “Understanding the world with F#“.
• Michał Łusiak posted “Using redis with F# on Windows“.
• Craig Stuntz blogged “Let’s Build a Compiler… In F#!“.
• Steve Gilham shared “An introduction to Functional Programming in F# — Part 2: Lexers and Parsers“.
• Don Syme wrote “New Visual F# Templates for ASP.NET, Web API, MSTest and Nancy Now Available“.
• Maxime Rouiller published “Community Update (2013/12/12) – Static files in #OWIN, #Fsharp templates and more as well as One #ASPNET“.
• gab_km posted “Let MailboxProcessor Act“.
• Simon Dickson blogged “Nancy + F# = Fancy“.
• Ross McKinlay wrote “SqlProvider : SQLite support (experimental)“.

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

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