F# Weekly #17, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual F# PowerTools v1.0.0 is released with Find All References, various improvements and bug fixes.
• F* (a dependently-typed variant of F# for program verification) is re-released under Apache 2.0.
• Apiary Provider is finally released.
• FAKE supports canopy tests!
• FSharp.Data has a nice new animated homepage.
• Would you like to run an F# coding dojo? Ready-to-use information and resources for F# meetups.
• FSCL(Framework for OpenCL programming, scheduling and execution abstraction on heterogeneous platforms in F#) is now part of FSharp Community Project.
• fszmq v4.0.5 is released.
• Portland F# User Group was introduced.
• F# is in the top of languages in Hello World Open.
• Blaise Vignon shared his 2048 solver in F#.
• Do you use Amazon DynamoDB from F#? DynamoDB.SQL DSL lets you do SQL-like querying and scanning.
• Check out WebSharper Kendo UI samples.
• Beautiful chapter on “Social network analysis” with a cool F# theme by Evelina Gabasova is now available in F# Deep Dives!

Video/Presentations

• F# With Bryan Hunter.
• “Some F# for the Erlang programmer” by Don Syme.
• “How to design a language integrated compiler with LLVM” byXiang Zhang and Aaron Brewbaker.
• ““Mostly functional” programming does not work.” by Erik Meijer.

Blogs

• Scott Wlaschin blogged “Twenty six low-risk, incremental ways to use F# at work, without affecting mission critical code“.
  • Using F# for development and devops scripts
  • Using F# for testing
  • Using F# for database related tasks
  • Other interesting ways of using F# at work
• Don Syme blogged “Latest Developments in General Purpose GPU Programming with F#“.
• Sergey Tihon shared “Where to practice your F# with fun?“.
• Daniel Mohl posted “F# Support for Web Projects“.
• Bjørn Einar Bjartnes shared “More street-fighting in F#“.
• Phil Brooks blogged “Mortality Projection Functions“.
• Gab_km wrote “Add an element into a sequence“.
• Jamie Dixon posted “F# and List manipulations“.
• Andrea Magnorsky blogged “F# scripting for a component based game engine“.
• James D’Angelo shared “Introducing the new Portland F# Meetup Group!“.
• Jorge Tavares posted “Simple Parallel Array Filtering in F#“.
• Functional Works published “Functional Rocks in London Start-ups!“.
• Michał Łusiak wrote “Speaking – “WTF# and why should you care” at get.net conference in Łódź“.
• Ramón Soto Mathiesen blogged “FSharp.ProjectScaffold (initial) rename script“.
• Daniel Fabian posted “Partial Lenses in F#“.
• Taumuon Jabuka wrote about  “Monte Carlo pricing of Exotic Options in F#“.
• James Crowley blogged “Code coverage using dotCover and F# make“.
• Kunjan Dalal published “Thanks to wonderful community“.
• Phil Trelford posted “Date Types“.
• Kurt Schelfthout published “NDepend to analyze F# code“.
• Karlkim Suwanmongkol blogged “Using F# and R Provider with Kaggle’s Facial Keypoints Detection“.
• Jérémie Chassaing posted “Monoidal Event Sourcing Examples“.
• David Tchepak wrote about “Some regex help from the F# compiler“.
• Natallie Baikevich blogged “Abs Puzzle“.
• Steffen Forkmann posted “FAKE 2.14.0 released – OpenCover edition“.
• Mathias Brandewinder published “Creating maps using R, Deedle and F# type providers“.
• Andreas Ågren wrote “Another Porter Stemmer in F#“.
• masuda published “How to make a WPF application in F#“.
• Sacha Barber wrote about:
  • F#18 : Flow Control
  • F#19 : Exceptions
  • F#20 : Creating Types / Adding Members

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #16