F# Weekly #13, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Do you use Visual F# Power Tools? Please send reviews and suggest improvements on VS gallery.
• F# Data 2.0.5 is released with Http fixes.
• Please discuss the fsharp.org starting page.
• Just released a new version of FlexSearch with complete documentation and a lot of examples.
• New and improved CloudSharper 0.9.9.1 was released.
• ExcelFinancialFunctions 2.2 is released with a new namespace, updated docs and concurrency fix.
• nagat01 visualized some features from F# Lang User Voice.
• Any thoughts on more data-source specific APIs (Yahoo, Twitter, etc.) in F# data? Please comment.
• Curious what does the F# code for an iOS app look like? Look at a minesweeper example from Rachel Reese.
• Pavel Martynov presented a new #fsharp news aggregator.
• Folder support for F# in Visual Studio & Implement Interface refactoring is coming thanks to Visual F# Power Tools!
• New FSharp.Data.SqlClient is released.

Video/Presentations

• “GeekFest #3 – Talking F# (Part 1)” by Fanie Reynders.
• F# for the C# developer with Mathias Brandewinder
• FCell 2.1: Excel object handles and linear regression with R in F#
• “MBrace: Cloud Computing with F#” by Eirik George Tsarpalis.
• “An intro to F#” by Anthony Brown (Lambda Days).

Blogs

• Phil Brooks posted “Smith Wilson and Deedle“.
• Scott Hanselman blogged “NuGet Package of the Week: Canopy Web Testing Framework with F#“.
• Phil Brooks posted “Mortality Manager with FCell 2.1“.
• Tomas Petricek wrote about “Solving fun puzzles with F#“.
• Sacha Barber wrote “F#10 : Lists“.
• Tobias Burger blogged “Import NuGet Packages to F# Interactive Scripts“.
• Faisal Waris presented “Alternative Actor Implementation for Android“.
• Adam Mlocek posted “Using R in Excel with FCell“.
• Fanie Reynders blogged “Talking basic F#“.
• Faisal Waris published “Xamarin F# – Experience Report“.
• Kunjan Dalal posted “SignalR + Nancy with F# hosted on Azure“.
• Robert Sweeney wrote “A C# developer’s take on F#: Discovery to Production“.
• Ramón Soto Mathiesen posted “Domain-driven design, F# types and War“.
• Filip W published “ASP.NET Web API hosted in Azure Worker Role with OWIN in F#“.
• Nick Blair blogged “F# Type Providers“.
• Chao-Jen Chen wrote:
  • “F#: Capture real time bars from InteractiveBrokers“
  • “F#: Capture tick price data from InteractiveBrokers“
• Dave Fancher posted “Passing Arguments by Reference in F#“.
• Jan Stenberg published “Domain-Driven Design Using a Functional Language“.

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

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