F# Weekly #49, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Call-to-action from Don Syme: Join the F# Foundation & help promote, protect, and advance the language!
• WebSharper goes Apache right now. v3.0 is coming.
• WebSharper migration to GitHub is completed!
• Tons of fun videos from NDC London (full list of talks).
• FAKE has 100 contributors and they managed to open the license.
• Akka.NET needs more F#’ers to eval our F# API.
• FSharp.Core now available on NuGet in a sane manner.
• Get up to 30 Pluralsight courses in your MSDN subscription.
• Do not miss “Introducing .NET Core“.
• Want F# IntelliSense support in LinqPad? Vote here.
• Matthew Moloney presented F# text editor in 3D with syntax highlighting.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• The F# Way To Relaxation (slides) by Don Syme (there are some problems with audio)
• Railway oriented programming: Error handling in functional languages by Scott Wlaschin
• Write Your Own Compiler in 24 Hours (slides and code) by Phillip Trelford
• Equivalence Classes, xUnit.net, FsCheck, Property-Based Testing by Mark Seemann
• Mona Lisa, F# and Azure: simple solutions to hard problems by Mathias Brandewinder
• Functional programming design patterns (slides) by Scott Wlaschin (comming soon)
• Biological Computing in F# by Rasmus Petersen and Colin Gravill
• Actor-based Concurrency with F# and Akka.NET (+code) by Akim Boyko
• Above and beyond Python programming FSharp for Trading and Finance by Bryan Downing
• Understanding social networks with F# (slides & code) by Evelina Gabasova
• Event Sourcing by Michael Newton
• F#, this aint a game by Andrea Magnorsky (slides)
• Elixir Language, Concurrency, Iteration by José Valim
• My adventure with Elm by Yan Cui

This week from F# Advent Calendar in English

• FsCheck and property-based testing – Scott Wlaschin
• Snowflakes – Philae Trelford
• My Introduction to Data Science with F# – Jon Wood
• Distributing the F# Mailbox Processor – Isaac Abraham
• Decorating Immutable Christmas Trees – Richard Dalton
• Christmas F# Polymorphism – Steve Shogren
• Developing an Algorithm in F#: Fast Rotational Alignments with Gosper’s Hack – Richard Minerich

This week from F# Advent Calendar in Japanese

• Computation Expressions Tips – pocketberserker
• AutoOpenAttribute– htid46
• Introduction to ApiaryProvider – otf
• F# Project Scaffold: Getting started – yukitos
• 実例に見るSource変換活用術 – bleis-tift
• State in computation expressions– kos59125
• FSharpLint: Linter for F# code – k_dispose

Blogs

• Predicting Physician Gender Using AzureML and F# – Jamie Dixon
• Using F# and FFmpeg to take thumbnails from video – Erlend Wiig
• F(by) 2014: Photos and slides.
• Extending a 3rd-party API with F# units of measure – Lincoln Atkinson
• Generating Permutations: Clojure or F#: Part 2 – Boris Kogan
• Modelling Stochastically Independent Processes with F# Computation Expressions: Part 1 – Boris Kogan
• Being visually honest with F# – Yan Cui
• F# Functions Explained – Currying & Partial Application – Ankit Solanki

F# vNext News

• Schedule plans for the remainder of Visual F# 4.0 development.
• Recently accepted PRs:
  • non-nullable provided types
  • better ide feedback for tp bugs
• Recently proposed PRs (please review and comment):
  • provided extension members
  • alignment with github.com/fsharp
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Support .NET Core and CoreCLR

New releases

• Paket 0.17.19.
• FSharp.CloudAgent 0.3
• WebSharper 2.5.134
• Stanford.NLP.* v3.5 and Stanford.NLP.Parser.Fsharp v0.0.9 using new IKVM for Java8.
• FSharp.Core 3.1.2
• FSharp.Configuration 0.4.6.
• FSharp.Control.Reactive 3.0.1
• R.NET F# Utility 0.1.11
• FSharp.Actor-logary 2.0.1
• EaToSql 0.0.5-alpha
• Chrisjdobson.WebSharper.SignalR 0.4.1
• Suave 0.19.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #48