F# Weekly #22, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Xamarin 3 includes F# support now (Xamarin Studio now ships with built-in support for building iOS and Android apps using the increasingly-popular F# functional programming language).
• Grab the latest daily build for F# and give feedback on experience.
• The F# PowerTools team are looking to add a “build a pattern match for a type” feature – follow the discussion.
• If you know open F# jobs, share them with the community in our LinkedIn group.
• Dyfrig v0.3.1 is released.
• F# Thai User Group was added to the map.
• BlueMountain Capital is sponsoring this year’s #Progfsharp in NYC!
• Anton Tayanovskyy shared Websharper and D3js visualization samples.
• Will Smith uploaded first 5 OpenGL tutorials from www.opengl-tutorial.org  to his repo.
• MaltParser is available for .NET now.

Video/Presentations

• “Building a Better SQL Type Provider” with Ross McKinlay.
• “Programming the Semantic Web” by Steffen Staab.
• “Railway Oriented Programming” by ScottWlaschin. (+code)

Blogs

• Tomas Petricek posted “New features and improvements in Deedle v1.0“.
• Dave Thomas blogged “Xamarin 3 F# Awesomeness“.
• Mårten Rånge shared “Why I wish C# never got async/await“.
• Phil Tomson posted “Comparing a Machine Learning Algorithm Implemented in F# and OCaml“.
• Daniel Fabian wrote about “Y-Combinator“.
• Jamie Dixon blogged “Association Rule Problem: Part 3“.
• Phil Trelford wrote “F# Summer of Code 2014“.
• Grant Crofton posted “Digit recognition in F# with k-nearest neighbours“
• Functional Software .NET published “Die Strukturierung von F# Quellcode“.
• Kevin Ashton wrote “Full Stack F# – Teaser“.
• Dave Fancher posted “Clean Code, Evolved“.
• Tim Jones blogged “Writing a MiniC-to-MSIL compiler in F# – Part 2 – Lexing and parsing“.
• Michael Newton wrote “Tap, Tap, Tapping on the Door“.
• Functional Works published “pol·y·glot: knowing or using several languages“.
• Sonny R. Recio posted “Functional Programming and other types of programming I’ve discovered“.
• Ramón Soto Mathiesen blogged “F# Fast and big Fibonacci numbers with Karatsuba“.
• Dave Thomas wrote “Anything You Can Do …“.
• Cameron Taggart posted “Embedding Node.js in your .NET F# App“.
• How to send emails using SendGrid & F#.
• quantlabs.net published:
  • is F Sharp big in London City Finance center due to it can parallelize and Microsoft attracts the corporate world to functional programming popularity.
  • Why smart people in London program in F# vs Python? 50% higher pay dummy.
  • Looks like DotNET F SHARP can integrate with C Sharp and C++ with HFT in mind.
  • Holy cow! DotNet F Sharp just got better with this R Provider hook up.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #21