F# Weekly #1, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New FSSF membership site is live! Join the F# Software Foundation!
• Participate in “Twitter Pulse #fsharp 2014“.
• F# Advent Calendar 2014 has ended – read full English and Japanese versions.
• F# Lint snippets is Online.
• Code2014: What programming languages did you use during 2014? (If you’ve written any F# this year- tweet to show your use of F#)
• Functional Track talks from NDC London 2014.
• Donna Malayeri used to be part of the Redmond F# team, these days she is doing Azure fun stuff. Check it out.
• The F# logo is now part of devicons v1.7!
• New docs: How to get Windows Service Bus working with F# CloudAgent.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Scott Theleman – Understanding F# Workflows Part 1 of 2

This week from F# Advent Calendar in English

• Snowflakes — redux – Andrew Cherry
• Deploying .NET code instantly using Vagrant – Eirik Tsarpalis
• F# 2014 – A Retrospective and Call to Action –  Reed Copsey, Jr.

This week from F# Advent Calendar in Japanese

• スコープやオフサイドルール小話 – pocketberserker
• F# Build Tools for Unity(ゲームのやつ) – UniFSharpのご紹介 – zecl
• FsCheck と ScalaCheck とを見比べる – gab_km

Blogs

• Using DocumentDB With F# – Jamie Dixon
• Less Defects with F# Units of Measure – Jon Wood
• Driving Xamarin’s Android Player from the Command Line – Greg Shackles
• The 2014 F# Tour in numbers – Mathias Brandewinder
• Using SQL Type Providers and FSharp.Charting to generate an email report with inline charts in F# – Brian
• Reading List for F# Learning – Jorge Tavares
• Type-safe reflection using F# quotations – Mårten Rånge
• Duck Typing in FSharp – Frank Joppe
• Step-3 PhoneCat Recommendation System Using F# Agents, SignalR and Rx – TamizhVendan
• Adding New Items to a Pure F# ASP.NET MVC/Web API Project – Daniel Mohl
• Foto einfügen von der Laptop Kamera – Functional Software

F# vNext News

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Implement types within types
  • Implement first-class lensing / lenses in F#

New releases

• Paket 0.21.5
• Visual F# Power Tools 1.7 New Year Edition.
• FSharp.Formatting 2.5.0 compatible with the latest FSharp.Compiler.Service
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.6
• FSharp.Management 0.2.0
• F# Data Toolbox (Twitter) 0.3.0
• MathNet.Numerics.FSharp 3.4.0
• Fss 1.2.0 (F# Server – lightweight F# web server)
• Nu Game Engine v0.996b
• Stacks FSharp 1.3.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #52