F# Weekly #3, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# is now available in .NET Fiddle (Live Validation, IntelliSense, Share and Collaborate). Try F# on any device!
• F# plugin for Light Table was announced.
• A new site “Community for F#” was published.
• FSharp.Configuration was announced (collection of Type Providers used for project configuration). Look at and jump in!
• Meet a new project “Excel Financial Functions” under fsprojects.
• Taha Hachana presented a search engine for looking up the arguments of R functions when using RProvider.
• VegaHub was published on NuGet with new docs.
• Latest beta version of FSharp.Formatting uses the new simpler compiler services API(FSharp.Compiler.Service). Check it out and report any issues!
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.11 is on NuGet! Do not miss a new sample – Compiler Services: Project Analysis.
• ExtCore 0.8.40 was released! (Includes significant performance improvements for HashMap & HashSet)
• Both Kiev and Lviv hosted F# events last week.
• Microsoft Search Scientist declares that F# is great for data science scripting.
• Google glass C#/F# SDK was presented by Xamarin.
• A new version of SqlCommandProvider was released with AllParametersOptional config property.

Video/Presentations

• “SQL Provider” by Ross McKinlay. (slides)
• “FCell 2.0 Demo” by StatFactory. (Combining F# with Excel to get Async UDFs, Object Handlers and Type Providers).
• “Introduction to F#” by César López-Natarén.
• “Haskell vs. F# vs. Scala” by Prabhat Totoo, Pantazis Deligiannis, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl. (read more)

Blogs

• Daniel Mohl wrote “A Project Template Wizard Via NuGet“.
• Jamie Dixon posted “Traffic Stop Disposition: Classification Using F# and KNN“.
• Steffen Forkmann announced “FSharpx.Collections 1.9 released“.
• Scott Wlaschin blogged “Commentary on ‘Roman Numerals Kata with Commentary‘”.
• Jean-Claude Razafindrakoto wrote “Data frame : the basic data structure that any data scientist should master“.
• Steffen Forkmann announced “FSharp.Configuration 0.1 released“.
• Cameron Taggart posted “SourceLink.Fake available“.
• Ross McKinlay shared “Visualizing LINQ with GraphViz“.
• James D’Angelo wrote “JSON Web Token (JWT) with Simple.Web“.
• Juan M Gómez blogged “Using FSharp with OrchardCMS“.
• Ollie Riches wrote about “Simple F# REPL in WPF – part 4“.
• Mathias Brandewinder presented “Version 0.1 of Charon, a F# Random Forest“.
• Liam McLennan posted “Applying Functional Programming to .net Consulting Projects“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “F# Kung Fu #3: Exceptions recap“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #2