F# Weekly #31, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Enjoy F# chat on StackOverflow.
• WebSharper UI.Next now has a shiny new website.
• First wave of samples for WebSharper bindings to WinJS 2.0.1.
• Taha Hachana shared his first WebSharper UI.Next experiments.
• FSCL 1.3 is online(New project structure, NuGet packages, FSCL organisation, GitHub pages with docs and tutorials)!
• The HomeBrew build for F# is unwell, a problem with resgen.exe. Can any homebrew + mono experts help? 🙂
• F# FreeBSD package is updated to 3.1.1.25. All you need is to ‘pkg install fsharp’ (well, run ‘pkg update’ first).
• A new interesting SO reply by Edinburgh University’s James Cheney about a new approach to dynamic LINQ queries in F#.

Core and Lang News

• Please install the latest version of Visual F# Tools preview. Help to find the remaining issues!
• Check out Don’s prototype for “Allow static arguments to Type Provider methods eg M<“ABC”>()“. (+docs)
• Is anyone interested in working on speeding up the F# compiler?
• Mårten Rånge was tweaked the F# compiler to generate faster IL code for ‘for x in xs do …’ when xs is a ‘T list.
• A new issue in Visual F# 3.1.2 “Visual F# 3.1.2 build actions missing“.

Videos/Presentations

• “Functional thinking, a universal tool for the digital world” with Nicolas Rolland.
• “Intoduction to Homotopy Type Therory” by Jack Fox.
• “Option Types using F#” by Jorge Fioranelli.
• “F#事例発表” by bleis tift.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Picasquez vs Velasso: Classics Mashup with F#“.
• Palladium Consulting posted “How Many Children are Leaving Central America: F# Edition“.
• Mark Seemann blogged “How to create a pure F# ASP.NET Web API project“.
• Simon Fowler posted “Animating single-page applications with UI.Next“.
• Richard Dalton wrote “Active Patterns: Single Case Total Pattern“.
• Senthil Kumar posted “How to Find the Sum of odd numbers from 0 to 100 in F#?“.
• htid46 wrote “Visual F# Power Tools の紹介“.

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

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