F# Weekly #2, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FsReveal has now a new FAKE target which allows you to deploy your slides to GitHub pages.
• Visual F# PowerTools Tip: use “Ctrl Shift + Arrow Down/Up” to navigate between next/previous highlighted references.
• Shared some inside about Jet.com.
• Number of unique people tweeting about F# per day is increasing
• Vote for F# support in add web jobs in Visual Studio (if you like an idea)
• RProvider works on the Mac
• F# is added to Stackshare

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Leveraging Functional Programming for Data Science – Richard Minerich
• F# News – December 2014 – Hadi Eskandari
• F# in social gaming (CodeMash 15) – Yan Cui
• F# on the Web: 0 to Production in 12 Weeks – Ryan Riley (+code)

Blogs

• Why your F# evangelism isn’t working – Eric Sink
• RSDE positions at Microsoft Research, Cambridge – Don Syme
• Concurrency, performance and F# – Mårten Rånge
• F# Record Types With Entity Framework Code-First – Jamie Dixon
• Using F# on a Raspberry Pi – Andre Van Der Merwe
• Tweaking Sublime Text themes to take advantage of Retina displays on Windows – Nikos Baxevanis
• Spelling checker in F# – Frank Joppe
• In the Age of Web: Typed Functional-First Programming Revisited – Tomas Petricek, Don Syme
• Fibanacci: Hopac vs Async vs TPL Tasks on .NET and Mono – Vasily Kirichenko
• Why you should learn F# in 2015 (and how)? – Tomas Petricek
• MonoGame, F# and Santa! – Greg Duncan
• Mastermind, The Code Breaking Game – Richard Dalton
• Working with Non-Compliant OWIN Middleware – Ryan Riley
• FAKE Final Targets – Sergey Tihon
• Recreating the Star Wars opening crawl in AutoCAD using F# – Part 1 – Kean Walmsley
• Recreating the Star Wars opening crawl in AutoCAD using F# – Part 2 – Kean Walmsley
• Recreating the Star Wars opening crawl in AutoCAD using F# – Part 3 – Kean Walmsley
• Recreating the Star Wars opening crawl in AutoCAD using F# – Part 4 – Kean Walmsley
• F# Match Expressions – Michael Coxeter
• FSharp.Msisdn – Torbjørn Marø
• Step-4 Build Automation Using FAKE – TamizhVendan
• Fun with L-system – Mathias Brandewinder

F# vNext News

• Visual F# and Roslyn will both be moving to GitHub next week!!!
• First Visual F# Tools Preview of 2015 includes localized templates.
• Recently accepted PRs:
  • rational exponents for units (preview)
  • allow fsharp.* refs to fscore nspcs (preview)
  • add icon for fsi.exe (preview)
• Recently proposed RPs:
  • compiler error msg fix
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Add possibility to use break and continue in f# loops. And do while loop

New releases

• Paket 0.22.9
• FSharp.Formatting 2.6.0
• F# Data Toolbox (Twitter) 0.5.0
• FSharp.Configuration 0.4.9
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.8-beta1
• WebSharper 3.0.8-alpha
• CloudSharper 0.9.25
• MathNet.Numerics.FSharp 3.5.0
• Suave 0.21
• Logibit Hawk 0.4.0
• Logary 2.3.2
• irc-fs – An IRC client library for F#
• FSharp.Quotation.Disassembler 0.1.0.1
• FSharpWebKit

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

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