F# Weekly #10, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• “InfoWorld: get with it – it’s not “Microsoft’s” F#, it’s everyone’s. Open source, cross-platform, freely available fsharp.org” by Don Syme.
• F# is on its way to the top 10 in TIOBE index.
• Do not forget to post your F# event in F# conferences list on lanyrd.com.
• FSharp.Data 2.0.0 is published to NuGet + new release docs.
• CloudSharper 0.9.7 now integrates FSharp.Compiler.Service.
• In the first month, “Visual F# PowerTools” has got 10 contributors and 1k downloads. This is awesome!
• F# addin 3.2.25 for MonoDevelop and XamarinStudio is released. Improvements to refactoring, find-all references and more.
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.29 is now up on NuGet: now with better symbol analysis, as used in @FSPowerTools and @fsharpbinding.
• New feature was added to F# User Voice “Optional parameters on let bindings on modules“. Please vote if you agree.
• FSharp Composable Extensions is on NuGet now.
• miTLS (a verified reference implementation of the TLS protocol) is written in F#.
• Steffen Forkmann can merge your PRO faster than you will be able to come home.
• Nobuhisa presented a sample of ASP.NET Identity written in F#.
• A good list/overview of math libraries for .NET was published on SO, see more on fsharp.org.

Video/Presentations

• F# Everywhere with Neil Danson
• Domain-Driven Design, Event Sourcing and CQRS with F# and EventStore by Lev Gorodinski
• CloudSharper-Creating Your First Web Project from IntelliFactory

Blogs

• Khalid Abuhakmeh posted “Unit Testing with XUnit and F#“.
• Jon Fazzaro wrote “Think Like A Functional Programmer For Better Object Oriented Code“.
• Nicolas Rolland shared “Projection, QR, etc..“.
• Jamie Dixon blogged “Restaurant Classifier: Async For Faster Performance?“.
• teramonagi posted “Functionally option pricing by binomial tree“.
• Neil Danson wrote about “It just works(™)!“.
• Sacha Barber posted F# series on CodeProject:
  • F# 1 : Hello World.
  • F#2 FSI Environment.
  • F#3 : Formatting text.
  • F#4 : Let / Use / Do Bindings.
  • F#5 : Operators.
  • F#6 : Tuples.
  • F#7: Records.
• Paul Krill wrote “Microsoft-backed F# language surges in popularity“.
• Marius Bancila posted “F# Operations on List“.
• Natallie Baikevich blogged “FsCheck and co: Testing Excel Financial Functions“.
• Ramón Soto Mathiesen wrote “F# is surprisingly expressive“.
• James D’Angelo posted “Combining F# and Simple.Web to Break SqlEntityConnection“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #9