F# Weekly #34, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Round 3 of voting for the new F# logo is underway! Please vote for your favorite!
• Functional Geekery Episode 14 is out with Richard Minerich.
• FsPlot v0.6 is released with an FSharp.Charting like API and PNG screenshot export.
• Welcome to join “F# Web Stack” forum.
• Cross-Platform Development Platform Xamarin Raises $54M Series C.
• F# cheatsheet was updated.
• CloudSharper v0.9.17 is out.
• FSharp.Data v2.0.10 is out.

Core and Lang News

• Announced the release of Visual F# Tools 3.1.2!
• ReedCopsey sent PRs:
  • updated project templates.
  • perf. optimization – seq.toarray.
• OkayX6 sent PR with “groupby implementation“.
• Mårten Rånge sent PR that “allow use on member binding“.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• “A Day in the Life of a Functional Data Scientist” with Richard Minerich.
• Taking F# to the Masses with CloudSharper (and Adam Granicz!).
• F# Web Development with Ryan Riley. (+samples).
• Reaching personal goals with F#, literally! with Nelson Lin
• F# + SignalR + Xamarin.Forms with Juan M Gómez.

Blogs

• ML Dialects and Friends: OCaml, F#, Scala, Haskell.
• Kevin Cantù posted “Operator precedence: F# and Haskell“.
• Richard Dalton finished his “Active Patterns” series with “Active Patterns : Choices and Nesting“.
• Eirik Tsarpalis wrote technical overview of FsPickler.
• Aleksander Heintz blogged “Language Support in the language you’re supporting (or eating your own dogfood)“.
• Anh-Dung Phan posted “F# and linear programming: an introduction to Z3 optimization API“.
• Jamie Dixon wrote “Consuming and Analyzing Census Data Using F#“.
• Simon Fowler announced “WebSharper UI.Next Version 0.1.31.32“.
• Vince Avery wrote about “Timings and GC in C#“.
• Daniel Bradley posted “Reflections of a .Net’er in a Node World (Some F# Language Ideas)“.
• Senthil Kumar published “FSIAnyCPU Feature in Visual Studio 2013“.
• Tim Jones blogged “Writing a MiniC-to-MSIL compiler in F# – Part 4 – Building the intermediate representation“.
• Ronnie Holm posted “Querying SharePoint 2007 lists with WSDL, XML, and Regex F# type providers“.
• Ramón Soto Mathiesen wrote “F# – A better way to use OData with JavaScript and SDK.REST.js on CRM2011 and CRM2013“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Coding in the Age of Mobility: @fsibot 0.1 is out!“.
• 7shi wrote “Haskellの型クラスとF#のインターフェース“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #33