F# Weekly #37, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Paket is ready for testing. Try it and send feedback.
• Interested in F# Support in Azure ML? Up vote this idea.
• New F# testimonial up now “Consulting for a large multi-national organization producing financial software“.
• Vote for F# support in Unity3D if you want it.
• Getting-started guide for F# GPGPU programming with Alea.cuBase has been updated.
• Project “Orleans” has F# samples.
• .NET v4.5.3 features were published.
• Join the discussion with Michael Newton about F# jobs and hiring.
• Released: SPCalendarRecurrenceExpander with parser and compiler in F#. Parses and compiles SharePoint DSL.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• The CUFP put the videos online from its 2014 congress.
• Composable queries in F# 3.0 with James Cheney. (slides & samples)
• “MBrace: Large-scale cloud computation with F# (CUFP 2014)” by Eirik George Tsarpalis.
• F# – Why you should give an F with Daniel Chambers
• Xamarin.Forms and F# in a minute with Troy Kershaw.
• “Caml Trading – Experiences with OCaml on Wall Street” by Yaron Minsky.

Blogs

• Eric Sink posted “An F# newbie using SQLite“.
• Andrea Magnorsky wrote about “Writing Duality Components in FSharp“.
• Troy Kershaw blogged “Stay Pure and Don’t Become a Mutant“.
• Luke Sandell posted “Interesting Active Patterns“.
• Palladium Consulting shared “Tiny Julia, F#, and C++ Explorations“.
• Robert Half Technology wrote “F# 101: A Basic Breakdown for C# Developers“.
• Roymon TP shared “Introduction to F# (F-Sharp)“.
• Tim Jones blogged “Writing a MiniC-to-MSIL compiler in F# – Part 5 – Code generation“.
• Tim Jones blogged “Writing a MiniC-to-MSIL compiler in F# – Part 6 – Conclusion“.
• Martin Schinz posted “A Vagrant Mono Box to Explore FSharp on Linux“.
• Yan Cui wrote about “Metricano – simplifying application monitoring“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “fsibot: now with 100% more Enterprise!“.
• Bryan Edds posted “Introducing the Nu Game Engine – the World’s First Practical, Purely Functional Game Engine, and Why it Matters to You… Or Not.“.
• Alex Casquete wrote “Expresiones de consulta en F#“.
• masuda wrote “F#でOpenCvSharpを使ってカメラキャプチャする“.

Core and Lang News

• Visual F# Team updated the page with Visual F# Tools priorities.
• Recently accepted PRs:
  • “fix url of fsharp.org website” by esada.
  • “updated project templates” by Reed Copsey.
• Recently proposed PRs (please review and comment):
  • “implement seq.scanback” by Patrick McDonald.
  • “add –version to fsc/fsi to show ver” by esada.
  • “implement list.truncate and array.tr” by Patrick McDonald.
  • “implement unfold” by Patrick McDonald.

New releases

• Paket v0.1.1.
• FSharp.Compiler.Service v0.0.61.
• CloudSharper v0.9.19 & v0.9.19.1.
• R.NET F# Utility v0.1.9.
• FSharpComposableQuery v1.0.3-beta.
• FSharp.Formatting v2.4.22.
• FSharp.Formatting.CommandTool v2.4.22.
• FSharp.Quotations.Evaluator v1.0.1
• FSharp.Compiler.CodeDom v0.9.1.
• Intelliplan.JsonNet v2.0.0.
• Intelliplan.JsonNet.NodaTime v2.0.0.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #36