F# Weekly #38, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Final round of voting for the F# logo is live!
• NYC based stealth F# start up Jet.com raised $20 million!
• Jet.com is looking for F# instructors in NY area.
• Vote if you like an idea “Add F# documentation for Azure SDK“.
• Ini file type provider was added to FSharp.Configuration.
• Register now for the Progressive F# Tutorials in New York, Oct 2-3. (do not miss afterparty)

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Introduction to Xamarin.Forms with Brad Pillow. (+slides)
• Using F# in C# Projects with Brendan Duffy.
• F# scripting for 3D geometry in the construction industry by Goswin Rothenthal.
• F# News – September 2014 with Jorge Fioranelli.
• Type Systems – The Good, Bad and Ugly by Paul Snively and Amanda Laucher.

Blogs

• Evelina Gabasova presented “Introducing Ariadne: F# library for Gaussian processes“.
• Andrea Magnorsky posted “Converting a small game from C# to F# part 1“.
• Jamie Dixon blogged “Consuming Azure ML With F#“.
• Sebastian Good shared “Little Performance Explorations: F#“.
• Lincoln Atkinson blogged “Response to “Little Performance Explorations: F#”“.
• András Jankó posted “2048 game with F# + WebSharper“.
• Ramón Soto Mathiesen wrote about:
  • F# – MS CRM Online Stress Test (±150.000 accounts/hour).
  • F# – MS CRM Online Browser Performance Test.
• Christian Jacobsen posted “How to get a free Xamarin F# shirt“.
• Dave Fancher wrote “Musings on C#’s Evolution“.
• Joseph Hill published “Xamarin Evolve 2014 Speaker Spotlight: Rachel Reese“.
• Phil Trelford presented “FsiBot: Assorted Tweets“.
• Bernard Shoe published “Runge Kutta In F#“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “F# Coding Breakfasts & Lunches: let’s code together!“.
• Cameron Taggart posted “Generating F# code using its AST“.

The F# Open Engineering Group News

• Online meeting was held – meeting notes were published.
• Interested in participation? Read more about how to get involved.
• “The F# Open Engineering Group: Goals and Remit” was updated.
• DRAFT of “Recommended Guidelines for F# Projects, Packages and Namespaces” was prepared. Please read and share your thoughts.

Core and Lang News

• Reed Copsey’s F# amendments to MSDN List<T> docs are now live! See Remarks and F# Examples.
• Don Syme updated status of F# 4.0+ Approved Language/Library Items.
• Don Syme‏ is looking for volunteers to work on this F# 4.0+ language feature: adding support for ‘fixed’.
• Recently accepted PRs:
  • “improved debugger type proxy for map” by jackpappas.
• Recently proposed PRs (please review and comment):
  • “implement windowed” by Patrick McDonald.
  • “implement mapfold and mapfoldback” by Patrick McDonald.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Solution Explorer functionality missing in F# projects
  • Expand F#’s Observable module to be more in line with Reactive Extensions
  • Automatically convert captured mutable locals into refs.
  • Add “lengthBy” function to Seq/Array/List.

New releases

• Paket v0.2.26.
• FAKE v3.5.2.
• FSharp.Compiler.Service v0.0.62.
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Twitter v0.2.1.
• FSharp.Formatting v2.4.24.
• FSharp.Formatting.CommandTool v2.4.23.
• CloudSharper v0.9.19.2 is out with a Browse panel to develop web apps live.
• FSharp.Configuration v0.4.3.
• Debian package: Accepted fsharp 3.1.1.26+dfsg-1 (source all) into unstable by Christopher James Halse Rogers.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #37