F# Weekly #14, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Hottest news! Visual F# Tools are opened for your contribution!!!
• Anders Hejlsberg is a great fan of F#.
• Dave Thomas was officially awarded by first F# Community Bad Ass Award!
• New user voice for Visual F# Power Tools was opened for prioritizing feature requests. Please move/send your suggestions there.
• The Visual F# Team are working on web project support!
• Visual F# PowerTools added folder support to F# projects.
• FAKE has TypeScript support from the first day after official TypeScript 1.0 release!
• Cool things happening: XSD support was added to the XML type provider in Fsharp.Data.
• CloudSharper 0.9.9.2 is out.
• New F# Emacs mode was out on MELPA with more responsive intellisense.
• Taha Hachana presented a new version of OpenSEO.
• Fraser Waters published “Small F# example programs for OpenTK“.
• Igor Kulman presented “AppStore and Google Play crawler written in F#“.
• Silicon Valley Energy Startup company Tachyus launched some days ago:“0 to launch in 12 weeks” using F#.
• F# works very well for computer algebra.
• Scala for fun and profit was announced 😉
• Vector Code is built with Xamarin & F#.
• Announcements from Build 2014:
  • .NET Native Preview – C# compiler that compile C# code to native machine code that performs like C++.
  • Roslyn – open-source C# and Visual Basic compilers with rich code analysis APIs.
  • .NET Foundation – an independent forum to foster open development and collaboration around the growing collection of open source technologies for .NET.
  • RyuJIT CTP3 – The next-generation JIT compiler for .NET.
  • Project “Orleans” – Cloud Services at Scale.

Blogs

• Don Syme blogged “F# on Android – Experience Report“.
• Visual Studio FSharp Team posted “Towards Publish-to-Web Project Support in the Visual F# Tools“.
• Ramón Soto Mathiesen posted “Bloom filters, FNV-1a/Murmur3 hashes and leaked e-mails“.
• minfuk wrote about “Seq.pairwise“.
• Steffen Forkmann blogged “FAKE 2.12.0 released – NancyFx edition“.
• Phil Brooks posted “Mortality Projections“.
• Tomas Petricek blogged “BREAKING: Open-source C# 6.0 released“.
• Jan Stenberg posted “DDD and CQRS Using the Functional Language F#” in InfoQ.
• zecl posted “Monadic Scripting in F# for Computer Games“.
• Kit Eason wrote “Tapping on the Box: A Few Words about Autism“.
• Alex Ott published list of F# books.
• Visual Studio FSharp Team posted “Facilitating Open Contributions for the F# Compiler, Library and Visual F# Tools“.
• Phil Trelford wrote about “Case for VB.Net vNext“.
• Phil Trelford wrote about “Orleans“.
• Jorge Tavares blogged “Articles about using F# to implement Lisp“.
• Isaac Abraham posted “Reusable decorators in F#“.
• David Tchepak wrote “A hasty introduction to the Either type“.
• Steve Gilham published “Fun with destructuring pattern matching — a well kept secret of F#“.
• Daniel Fabian ‏blogged “Memoization“.
• Sacha Barber published:
  • “F#11 : Sequences“.
  • “F#12 : Arrays“.
  • “F#13 : Pattern Matching“.
  • “F#14 : Recursion“.

Nice sessions from Build 2014:

• Anders Hejlsberg Live Q&A
• “The Future of C#” by Dustin Campbell, Mads Torgersen.
• “.NET Community & Open Source” by Miguel de Icaza, Dan Fernandez, Jay Schmelzer
• “Using Orleans to Build Halo 4’s Distributed Cloud Services in Azure” by Sergey Bykov & Hoop Somuah
• “The Present and Future of .NET in a World of Devices and Services” by Jay Schmelzer.
• “Developing Neural Networks Using Visual Studio” by James McCaffrey.
• “Go Mobile with C# and Xamarin” by Miguel de Icaza.
• “What’s New for ASP.NET and Web in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and Beyond” by Scott Hanselman & Scott Hunter

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #13