F# Weekly #12, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• fslang.uservoice.com is a new F# Language User Voice. Register, vote and share your ideas! Influence the next version of F#!
• Visual F# Power Tools 0.5.0 is out with semantic highlighting and performance improvements!!!
• Learn about F# API of Akka for .NET incubation project. (Available on NuGet now)
• WebSharper site was updated: a new page to list selected WebSharper extensions.

• Dmitry Morozov introduced F# SqlEnum Type Provider (Type safe enum-like types for reference/lookup data)

• Anton Tayanovskyy presented F# Vagrant dev boxes for Ubuntu and Arch.
• New UpForGrabs issues in FSharp.Data. Is anyone interested?
• Mono and F# are available now in boxparts in CodioHQ. Just do `parts install mono fsharp` in the terminal.
• Fsharp topic exists on Quora. Please do not hesitate to discuss F# on Quora if you use it.
• GA Release for Google APIs Client Library for .NET. Right time to test it from F#.

Video/Presentations

• Porting Quake III to F# A Journey to Functional Programming with Will Smith.
• Uncovering the Unknown: Principles of Type Inference
• “Building a Language for Spreadsheet Refactoring” by Felienne Hermans.
• “Railway Oriented Programming” by Scott Wlaschin.

Blogs

• Sacha Barber posted “F#8 Discriminated Unions“.
• Jamie Dixon blogged “Apriori Algorithm and F# Using Elevator Inspection Data“.
• Marcin Juraszek wrote about “Folders in F# projects. How to do it? What to avoid?“.
• Rick Robinson shared “In the Programming Language Landscape, F# Moves toward the Front of the Class“.
• Michael Newton blogged “Type Providers From the First Floor“.
• Tadsan wrote about “F# and Emacs“.
• “The Power of Partial Application” by Scott Wlaschin.
• Sacha Barber posted “F#9 : Option types“
• Phil Trelford presented “Foq 1.6“.
• Antonio Lucca blogged “Venn diagrams and Categorical Propositions in F#“.
• Gustavo Guerra posted “F# Named Union Fields“.
• Gustavo Guerra posted “Maintaining Backwards Compatibility When Changing APIs in F#“.
• Anton Kropp presented “Strongly typed powershell csv parser“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “FsCheck + XUnit = The Bomb“.
• Patrick Durusau shared a link to “Building a Language for Spreadsheet Refactoring“.
• Dave Fancher wrote that “The Book of F#, Now Available“.
• Phil Trelford blogged “F# Type Providers“.
• James D’Angelo posted “Quick and Dirty Command Handlers, Event Handlers, Wiring it Up“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #11