F# Weekly #26, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Vote on Visual F# Power Tools features to prioritize development.
• Tomas Petricek published a new version of FsLab package & template! With great Math.NET integration from Christoph Rüegg & bug fixes.
• F# Type Provider for SignalR with FunScript was announced.
• FsPickler 0.9.5 is prereleased with format refinements, .NET 4.0 support and other improvements.
• Rio de Janeiro F# User Group hosted first event “F# – 1º Encontro“.
• ExtensionMethod.net has F# methods.
• FSharp.Management v0.1.1 is released with memory fixes.
• Ryan Roberts showed first results with OWL type provider.
• F# plugin v0.1 for OpenIDE was presented.
• FAKE 3.0 allows live debugging of build scripts.
• “F#ers Meetup in Tokyo” was announced.
• .NET Fiddle uses Fantomas code formatter to tidy up F# code.
• F#unctional Londoners just hit 800 members.
• Dave Thomas presented:
  • FSharp.Core Microsoft signed
  • FSharp.Core Mono delay signed
• If anyone wants to help out with the F# addin for Xamarin studio just ping Dave Thomas.

Core and Lang News

• Keep up the great work on F# 4.0 and get involved!
• Mark Seemann provided our 1st Contribution to F# 4.0.
• Robert Jeppesen implemented “fsharp interpreter shebang compatibility“.
• Don Syme submitted pull request with support of “non-nullable provided types“.
• Help wanted: work with Don Syme to get this PR tested, so that Visual F# Team can pull it.
• Visual F# is seeking collaborators and developers for F# 4.0:
  • Internationalized printf formatting of numbers
  • Async.WaitTask for non generic Task
  • Allow to use class constructors as functions
  • Make FSharp.Core collection functions for List, Array and Seq more regular
  • String module documentation is false

Video/Presentations

• “F# in your pipe” by Phillip Trelford (from his talk)
• “F# Open Source Update + Tackling Mutability with Data Flow Graphs” with Curt Nichols and @Codecutterman.
• “Tackle UI with Reactive DOM in F# and WebSharper” with Anton Tayanovskyy.

Blogs

• Gert-Jan van der Kamp published on CodePlex “Using a DataReader like a List in F#“.
• Functional Works posted “Functional should always be fun!“.
• Piet Amersfoort wrote “Creating real world WPF applications with Prism 5 and F# (part 2 – MEF)“.
• Kunjan Dalal updated “SignalR + Nancy with F# hosted on Azure“.
• Jamie Dixon posted “Consuming Sky Biometry’s Image Recognition API“.
• Peter Strøiman released “FSpec goes 0.1 (with Foq support)“.
• Heather posted “Read/Write Excel from F# with NPOI“.
• Phil Brooks wrote about “Stochastic Mortality (Limited)“.
• Michael Newton blogged “Property Checking Start Challenge“.
• Kunjan Dalal posted “SignalR + Servciestack with F# hosted on Azure“.
• Yan Cui published “Announcing libraries for C# and F# to make it easier to integrate with Sentry“.
• Kunjan Dalal posted “My broken marriage with C# and extramarital affair with F#“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #24-#25