F# Weekly #6, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Json.NET 6.0 was released with F# Support.
• Happy birthday FAKE – 4 years with 2788 commits and 53 contributors!!!
• Power Tools for Visual Studio was announced (available in VS gallery). Do not be shy to join to make it better!
• Do not miss new manager-focused “Why F#” page!
• fszmq (F# binding for the ZeroMQ) version 4.0.4 was released with a shiny new website.
• Do not miss home of F# Coding Dojos.
• Use numl machine learning from F# – sample.
• LinqOptimizer 0.5.2 is on NuGet, with a brand new tuple elimination algorithm (for F# and C#).
• F# step-by-step guides + articles by Eriawan Kusumawardhono.
• Code completion with a jQuery Mobile app in F# with WebSharper.
• FancyFS: Static parameters work on routes.
• WebSharper.Highcharts is on NuGet now.
• FSharp.Data is finally compatible with Win and Mono (Thanks to Gustavo Guerra).

Video/Presentations

• “Data Workflows for Machine Learning” by Paco Nathan.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Re-introducing Community for F#“.
• Jamie Dixon wrote “Unit Testing F# Projects“.
• Phil Brooks posted “Higher Order Functions in Excel“.
• Calvin Bottoms presented “Polyglot Survival Guide: Erlang, Haskell, and F#“
• Luke Sandell blogged “F# and Output Parameters“.
• Kunjan Dalal posted “Getting started with Functional web“.
• Kunjan Dalal posted “Asp.Net MVC5 with F#“.
• Kunjan Dalal posted “When Servicestack meet F# via Side Waffle“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy wrote “Deterministic parallelism with logging“.
• Will Pleasant-Ryan published “Resource Roundup: Getting Started with F#“.
• Mike Hadlow wrote about “On Undefined“.
• Karlkim Suwanmongkol blogged “Learning F# with F# Succinctly by Robert Pickering“.
• David Tchepak posted “Splitting responsibilities by abstracting type details“.
• Robert Nielsen wrote “New free editor for F# (Visual Studio 2013 Express)“.

• Isaac Abraham blogged “Azure Storage F# Type Provider – Now with Table Support“.

• Dave Thomas decided to be “Detweeted“.

FsAdventJP

• F# compiler service
• Implementing the List Workflow using the continuation-passing style.

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

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