F# Weekly #15, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The F# compiler team created an up-for-grabs label and it’s already added.
• SpiegelSoft presented Vulpes (an implementation of deep belief and deep learning, written in F# and using Alea.cuBase to connect to your PC’s GPU device).
• VesaKarvonen presented Hopac (a library for F# with the aim of making it easier to write efficient parallel, asynchronous and concurrent programs).
• This Silicon Valley startup just raised $6Million, and they use F#.
• Visual F# PowerTools were enriched with Solution wide renaming refactoring.
• Http.fs 0.9.0.0 is out with character encoding support.
• Eirik Tsarpalis posted “Poor man’s distributed actors“.
• Does anyone want to try plotly from F#?
• LinqOptimizer 0.6.2 is on nuget with new Parallel LINQ optimizations!
• Steffen Forkmann published a new FAKE tutorial “Compiling TypeScript applications“.
• Miguel de Icaza ‏looking for a contractor to port c# t-shirt app to F#.
• MonoGame 3.2 was announced (with 1,600 new commits for fixes, features, & improvements).
• FsMachines 0.1.0 was released.
• New canopy site was published (powered by FSharp.ProjectScaffold).

Video/Presentations

• The Flying Fox: Deep Machine Learning with F# by Rob Lyndon.
• “Create maps with F#, Deedle and R” by Mathias Brandewinder.

Blogs

• Scott Wlaschin blogged “Analysis of Roslyn vs. the F# compiler“.
• InfoQ published “The Book of F# – Review and Interview with Dave Fancher“.
• Daniel Mohl announced that “TypeScript in First-Class F# Web Projects“.
• Igor Kulman posted “Crawling mobile app stores with F#“.
• Phil Brooks blogged “Smith Wilson and the F# Community“.
• Jamie Dixon wrote about “Consuming Twitter With F#“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy announced that “WebSharper available for testing on Xamarin & MonoDevelop“.
• Jérémie Chassaing blogged “Monoidal Event Sourcing“.
• Michael Newton posted “Going Functionally SOLID“.
• Bjørn Einar Bjartnes shared “Street-fighting mathematics“.
• Juan María Hernández posted “Testeando sitios web con F# y Canopy“.
• Tim Jones blogged “Writing a MiniC-to-MSIL compiler in F# – Part 0 – Introduction“.
• Luke Sandell posted “F# Symbolic Math, Part 2“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #14