F# Weekly #2, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Now you have an ability to subscribe to F# Weekly by email.
• You can join F# community on Gittip right now!
• On the next week .NET Fiddle will release a new version with F# integration.
• Learn more about the FSharp.Compiler.Service project and follow @FSCompService.
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.3-alpha is now on NuGet.
• Fantomas v1.0.5 was released with full F# 3.1 support, Mono compatibility, various improvements and bug fixes.
• F# code formatting is coming soon to Xamarin Studio!
• FrankFs just turned 2.0.0! Check out the new and improved docs.
• Yan Cui introduced log4net.Kinesis, a log4net appender for Amazon Kinesis.
• Rare event: Bug was found in F# compiler.
• FAKE needs a cool logo. Any ideas?
• Apparently, Don Syme is less an F# aficionado than Tomas Petricek.
• New Functional South Coast (Southampton) user group was registered.
• There are plenty of ways to join or contribute to WebSharper.
• Love F# and Sublime Text? Philip David Harvey needs help finishing his F# autocomplete plugin.
• Stanford CoreNLP for .NET was updated up to v3.3.1.
• New version of LinqOptimizer 0.4.8 is on NuGet (C# and F# versions)
• ExtCore 0.8.40 was released (Including significant performance improvements for HashMap & HashSet).
• New F# code sample was posted on Rosetta Code.
• An onsite training course “Functional Programming with F# .NET Training Course” is available from JJB International.
• James Freiwirth shared PerfectShuffle.OAuth (A simple OAuth 2.0 implementation)
• Ollie Riches works on Simple WPF F# Repl.
• Vasily Kirichenko works on YamlTypeProvider.
• Light Table is open source and ready for F# integration.
• Interested in AutoCAD development with F#? Read these.

Blogs

• Phil Trelford posted “Small Basic Compiler“.
• Jamie Dixon blogged:
  • “Setting up an OData Service on WebAPI2 to be used by F# Type Providers“.
  • “Traffic Stop Analysis Using F#“.
• Visual Studio FSharp Team shared “Seattle user group, Feb 13: F# on iOS with Xamarin Studio and Mac“
• Tomas Petricek blogged “Coeffects: The next big programming challenge“.
• Jack Fox wrote about “Transparent Heterogeneous Parallel Async with F#“.
• Phil Trelford posted “Extending Small Basic with Function Procedures“.
• Michael Newton wrote “Type Provider ProTip“.
• Sergey Tihon announced a new service “Subscribe to F# Weekly by Email“.
• Gordon Hogenson prepared “Excel automation in F#” links collection.
• Jeffrey Sax wrote “Data Frame Library Preview“.
• Terje Tyldum posted “F# charting challenge“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “F# Kung Fu #2: Custom Numeric Literals“.
• Dawid Kowalski posted “F#, Deedle and Computational Investing“
• James D’Angelo wrote “Simple.Web F# Project Template Updates“.
• Dave Fancher posted “The Book of F#: Early Access!“
• Chao-Jen Chen blogged “F#: Connect to InteractiveBrokers via ActiveX“.
• Yan Cui write “Filbert v0.2.0 – performance improvement on decoding“.

FsAdventJP

• ImmutableArray in F#

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

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