F# Weekly #18, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Let’s get F# a new logo! Project is underway. Help us by giving.
• MyGet build services support F# from now!
• Evelina Gabasova presented F# Data Toolbox (A library for various data access APIs based on FSharp.Data) and the first package with Twitter type provider. Any suggestions for other data source-specific APIs?
• All Stanford.NLP .NET packages were updated on NuGet to support latest IKVM.NET.
• Json.NET 6.0.3 has better F# support!
• Http.fs is now at v1.0.0!
• Check out “F# Programming” wikibook.
• Do you have academic publications which use, extend or are influenced by F#? Please add them to “Publications related to F#” section of fsharp.org.
• Read reddit discussions:
  • Where are the F# jobs?
  • Functional Programming and Game Development? It can be done!
• Do not miss Special Xamarin licenses for OSS contributors: “for developing, testing, and maintaining compatibility”.
• QuantAlea submitted an open source pull request to allow debugging information in GPU-code quotations.
• Bryan Edds showed fpworks – Repository hosting the open-source game OmniBlade, and related projects. Bryan is looking for a new project to use his F# NuGameEngine for! If you/your company have interest & resources, let him know!
• Ross McKinlay showed InteractiveProvider – A type provider abstraction for all your gaming needs.
• Victor Baybekov showed Fredis – Dead simple API for POCOs persistence, cache + Redis based distributed actors.

Video/Presentations

• “F#, Canopy and 2048” by Mathias Brandewinder.
• “Some F# for the Erlang programmer” by Don Syme.
• OddsTypeProvider by Juan M Gómez.
• Type Provider by Michael Newton.

Blogs

• Mark Michaelis posted “A C# 6.0 Language Preview“.
• Ronnie Holm blogged “Using F# and FAKE to build a SharePoint provider-hosted app“.
• Frank Meola posted:
  • Sculpt Your Code In a REPL – Part One
  • Sculpt Your Code In a REPL – Part Two
  • Sculpt Your Code In a REPL – Part Three
• Liam McLennan wrote “PostgresDoc“.
• Lincoln Atkinson blogged “F# extension methods in Roslyn“.
• Ross McKinlay posted “BASIC’s 50th Anniversary … and more crazy F# type providers!“.
• Osman Öztürk published “Functional Programming with F#“.
• Steve Shogren wrote “Pattern Matching – Make the Compiler Work for You“.
• Jamie Dixon published “Microsoft Language Stack Analogy“.
• minfuk posted “Seq.unfold & Regex“.
• Check out Korporal Kernel’s blog and his Lexical Analysis With F# series.
• Gabriele Cocco posted:
  • Why you WANT to use UseHostPointer instead of AllocHostPointer
  • An insight on Buffer Pool Manager
• Sacha Barber wrote about:
  • F#21 : Events
  • F#22 : Abstract classes / Overriding Methods / Implementing Interfaces
  • F#23 : Generics
• Paco Nathan posted “Just Enough Math“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #17