F# Weekly #27, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Run an F# app, get an F# shirt!
• F# compiler task shipped directly with FAKE 3.1.
• Steven Taylor published F# friendly connector to KDB+.
• CloudSharper 0.9.13.1 is released.
• Speech API with WebSharper.
• Karlkim Suwanmongkol ‏presented FsReveal.
• Major update to ServiceStack F# template.
• Tomas Petricek announced the challenge for everyone who looking for a fun with F# compiler optimization.
• F# MVC 5 was updated.
• Experimental FsPickler.CSharp package was published to NuGet.

Core and Lang News

• Visual F# Team open-sourced the Visual F# IDE stack!
• Visual F# Team published guidelines and best practices for those working on F# 4.0 core library collection functions.
• Visual F# Team is working on adding profile 78 and 259 to the F# preview.
• Vladimir Matveev posted a prototype for swift like printf “[Prototype] String interpolation”.

Video/Presentations

• “Taking your craft seriously with F#” with Tomas Petricek. (+code)
• “Xamarin FSharp Interactive” by Frank A. Krueger.

Blogs

• S. Somasegar announced “Enabling Contributions to the Visual F# IDE Tools“.
• Steffen Forkmann posted “Microsoft, Open Source development and Codeplex“.
• Rachel Reese blogged:
  • Introduction to F# with Xamarin.
  • Introduction to F# with Xamarin, Part II.
• Phil Trelford wrote about “F# Summer of Code 2014“.
• Loïc Denuzière published “CloudSharper 0.9.13 with workspace cloud sharing!“.
• Jamie Dixon posted “TRINUG F# Analytics Prep: Part 2“.
• Adam Granicz shared “Upcoming CloudSharper features in Q3“.
• David Siegel blogged “Shallow: Cloning a Hook-up App in F#“.
• Hodza Nassredin posted “Way to computation expressions“.
• Ross McKinlay shared “2048 – Type Provider Edition“.
• Per Ökvist wrote “Exploring F# through modeling #3“.
• Joseph Hill announced “Contest: Build Your First F# Mobile App“.
• Larry O’Brien wrote “F# For Scripting“.
• Gabriele Cocco posted “FSCL vs OpenCL C/C++ performance“.
• Bartosz Sypytkowski blogged “FSharp and Akka.net – the Functional Way“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “Where should the source code of Visual F# Tools be?“.

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

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