F# Weekly #51, 2013

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New WebSharper site is finally out with new samples: HighCharts, D3js, O3D and etc.
• FAKE 2.4 was released.
• WebSharper 2.5 was released.
• Michael Newton announced FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack.
• Steffen Forkmann announced FSharp.Management (FileSystem, Registry, WMI and PowerShell).
• F# compiler & interactive services (codename Foslyn) now have basic documentation!
• TahaHachana announced FsPlot (interactive data visualization library for F# using HTML5/JavaScript).
• Preview F# support at Xamarin!
• ExtCore 0.8.38 was released.
• Learn how Microsoft and partners are using F# for Spatial Data Research Software (read more).

Video/Presentations

• “F# type provider for Amazon S3” by Yan Cui.
• “Expression Oriented Programming with F#” by Robert Pickering.
• “Episode 7: The F# is for Frank Krueger“
• “Dependent Type Providers” by David Raymond Christiansen.
• “Effective Quotation – Relating approaches to language-integrated query” by James Cheney, Sam Lindley, Gabriel Radanne and Philip Wadler.
• “On Building Software” with Bob Martin.
• “Deconstructing Functional Programming” by Gilad Bracha.

Blogs

• Daniel Mohl updated “Adding New Items to a Pure F# ASP.NET MVC/Web API Project“.
• Mike Harris posted “Living with Function Programming OR Unit Testing F# with FsUnit“.
• Ollie Riches blogged:
  • “Simple F# REPL in WPF – part 1“.
  • “Simple F# REPL in WPF – part 2“.
• Karl-Johan Nilsson wrote “How Agents Fail“.
• Victor Baybekov wrote about “Monte Carlo Pi“.
• Ayende Rahien posted “What about F# collections?“.
• Jamie Dixon blogged “F# and Monopoly Simulation Redux“.
• Steffen Forkmann posted “Microsoft Dynamics NAV type provider“.
• Daniel Mohl wrote “Getting Started with Azure, Node.js, and FogJS on Windows“.
• Krzysztof Cieślak blogged “F# Type Inference“.
• James D’Angelo shared “Pure F# ASP.NET Web Applications and Simple.Web“.
• Kit Eason posted “What to do if you ‘just don’t get’ F#“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “F# Kung Fu #1: Mastering F# Script references“.
• Dave Fancher wrote about “Fibonacci Sequence“.
• Gene Belitski posted “Quieting FSI output“.

FsAdventJP

• Thoughts about software design with F#
  
• OCaml and F#
• F# unique features
• Type first programming
• F# compiler for arithmetic expressions
• Let’s play with Deedle
• FParsec and parser combinators
• F# implementation of barrage description language BulletML
• Mastering Units of Measure
• F# pattern matching for command-line arguments
• QuichRun: F# in Vim
• Functions and F# expressions

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

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