F# Weekly #8, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• O’Reilly webcasts: “F# for the C# Developer“, “Domain Modelling with the F# Type System” & “Mobile App Development with Xamarin and F#“
• Compiler Services: Notes on FSharp.Core.dll
• Inspired by Spark, Microsoft are building OneNet, a distributed functional programming platform based on F#
• MatrixMarket and its file formats look like a good opportunity for another FSharp.Data type provider.
• Akka.NET bootcamp is LIVE! Go sign up and get started building with the actor model now.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Where No Type Has Gone Before – Ross McKinlay
• Building Reactive Services using Functional Programming – Rachel Reese
• Graph Databases for Modeling Game Economies, Actors and DSLs with F# – Yan Cui
• Machine learning from disaster – GL.Net 2015 – Phillip Trelford
• F# – Aggelos Biboudis

Blogs

• Enterprise Tic-Tac-Toe Part 2: In which I throw away my first design and use capabilities instead – Scott Wlaschin
• F# Deep Dives Review and Author Q&A – Tomas Petricek
• My step-by-step guide to starting the early preview of MBrace cluster on Azure using Brisk Engine – Don Syme
• Throttling the Level of Concurrency in F# – Michael Newton
• Parsing Wake County Tax Site With F# – Jamie Dixon
• Deploying F# Web Job to Azure – David Crook
• Packaging and Deploying #Azure WebJobs with FAKE
• Adding support for MBrace, F# and .NET on Brisk – Isaac Abraham
• Updated: “Retrieving GitHub download counts” – Steffen Forkmann
• Exploring F# – tilovell09
• FsCheck generators and the ‘choose’ function – Nikos Baxevanis
• Reshaping arrays in .NET – Natallie Baikevich
• First impressions with DiffSharp, an F# autodiff library – Mathias Brandewinder
• Type providers – Andrea Magnorsky

F# vNext News

• Lincoln Atkinson presented FSI debugging without breakpoints.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • An attribute enforcing usage (in F# code) of named parameters at callsite
  • Support Multiple Properties in StructuredFormatDisplayAttribute
  • Provide a concise and performant item+index for loop (“with index”)

New releases

• Paket 0.30.0
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.10
• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack 1.1.3.60
• CloudSharper 0.9.28
• EventStore.Client F# API
• Serilog.Extras.FSharp 1.4.182
• FSharp.Actor-logary 3.0.1
• Newtonsoft.Json.FSharp 3.1.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #7