F# Weekly #30, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• If you want to suggest a new feature for the F# addin in Xamarin Studio, remember to add it to user voice.
• Visual F# Power Tools can show you unused open declarations.
• New F# meetup in Toronto.
• Call to F# speakers. Help to put on an F# track at the world’s largest SiliconValley CodeCamp in October.
• A template for F#-branded logos is now part of ProjectScaffold! Download and create a logo for your project.
• WebSharper site was re-styled.
• Dmitry Morozov works on FSharp.Desktop.UI (F# MVC for WPF) and new samples.
• Isaac Abraham is almost ready to introduce queue support to the F# Azure storage type provider.
• ParStream.sortBy is up to 3x faster than PSeq.sortBy.

Core and Lang News

• Visual F# Tools will be moving to GitHub!
• Try out the latest preview release of F# 3.1.2 and help Visual F# team to ensure that it is ready for release!
• The most elegant PR to F# Compiler.
• Feedback wanted: if you downloaded the F# preview, did you use F# from within VS or from the shell?
• Want to work on F#? Well here is an issue to whet your appetite “Object Initializer Intellisense Broken“.
• Interested in improving F# and easing F#-C# interop? This issue is for you “Improve optional parameter interop between F# and C#“.
• Steffen Forkmann proposed a FAKE build script for Visual F#.

Videos/Presentations

• “Tackle UI with Reactive DOM in F# and WebSharper” by Anton Tayanovskyy.
• “Doing Data Science with F#” by Tomas Petricek.
• “モナドハンズオン前座 ” by bleis tift.

Blogs

• Simon Fowler wrote “WebSharper.UI.Next: An Introduction“.
• Jamie Dixon blogged “Neural Network Part 2: Perceptrons“.
• Sergey Tihon wrote “F# Kung Fu #4: Avoid using relative paths in #r directives“.
• Rahul Garg published “F# microbenchmark study“.
• Miguel de Icaza published “Mono’s performance team“.
• Phil Trelford blogged “My First Xamarin Mobile App“.
• Ronnie Holm posted “Trustpilot challenge: dictionary-based multi-word anagram solver with a twist“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy wrote “WebSharper.UI.Next: Declarative Animation“.
• Sergio De Simone posted “F# Native App Development on iOS and Android“.
• Tim Sneed blogged “Building an F# app using Xamarin“.
• Bernard Hsu posted “Calling Fortran assemblies from .NET“.
• Simon Fowler wrote about “Structuring Web Applications with WebSharper.UI.Next“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy posted “The fatal attraction of FRP“.
• Tim Sneed wrote about “Add a refresh navigation button to your xamarin F# app“.
• Cameron Taggart published “Complete Graph on Android“.
• Matt Button shared “A Basic Stock Trading Backtesting System For F# Using Ta-Lib And FSharp.Data“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy announced “UI.Next available“.
• Bernard Hsu blogged “Genetics, Evolution of Color, and the French Revolution in F# Xamarin iOS“.
• Michał Łusiak posted “Talking F# in Warsaw“.
• David Tchepak wrote about “F# assertion libraries“.
• Richard Dalton blogged “Learning To Think Functionally: Types, Maps and Sets“.
• Yan Cui posted “Here Be Monsters – Message broker that links all things“.
• Павел Осадчук написал “Разработка приложения на Android с помощью Xamarin и F#“.
• Olivier Dahan published “Programmer en pensant fonctionnel (F#)–Partie 6“.
• masuda wrote about “Xamarin.Forms の XAML を F# から使うために XamlTypeProvider を使う“.
• masuda posted “Xamarin.Forms+F# で Navigation.PushAsync を使うときの注意“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #29