F# Weekly #9, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# eXchange 2015 – the conference on F# is coming soon.
• Understanding .NET 2015
• Chessie (railway-oriented programming to .NET) is announced.
• ProjectScaffold is using Paket to produce NuGet packages.
• WebSharper 3.0-alpha for Xamarin Studio / MonoDevelop is now available!
• F# Vienna Meetup was announced.
• New BMA release with refreshed design and F# powered back-end
• FCell 3.0 is now available.
• FSharpx.Async and FSharpx.Reflection are extracted from Fsharpx.
• Pierre Irrmann has an alpha version of a Chess type provider!
• Small Unity3d F# game in web-player.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• OneNet: High Performance Distributed Functional Computing Platform – Jin Li
• Context-aware programming languages – Tomas Petricek
• Introducing Ferlang(F# to Erlang compiler)! – Luke Sandell
• WebSharper 101: type safe web apps in F# – Anton Tayanovskyy
• Improve the signal, reduce the noise bring F# to the table – Tomasz Jaskula (code)
• Functional Programming in C# and F# – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Yak Shaving F# Style – Aaron Powell
• F# Cancer Research – Evelina Gabasova
• F# News – February 2015 – Geoffrey Huntley

Blogs

• Introducing – The Mixin Type Provider – Ross McKinlay
• Warning, Conferences ahead! – Yan Cui
• Testing with F# – Mikael Lundin
• Domain Language: The Playthrough Bonus – Jef Claes
• Parsing Wake County School System Attendance Assignment Site With F# – Jamie Dixon
• F# and Named-Pipes – Riccardo Terrell
• F# Unity3D Async Workflow – Ryan Kilkenny
• An Actor model example with Akka.NET – Claus Sørensen
• Making sense of Active Pattern in F# – Michael Coxeter
• FAKE: Running xUnit Tests with FAKE without knowing a tiny bit of F# – SoftFluent
• Programming Challenges with functional programming in F#: Article #1 the Collatz conjecture – Buddy James
• Fibonacci Variations, Part 1: A Library-Based Infinite Sequence – Marc Sigrist

F# vNext News

• Visual F# Tools March 2015 Bug bash.
• Try out the latest F# preview: “Visual FSharp 4.0 Preview 02-24-2015“
• Fix bugs or add features?
• Help wanted!!! F# bugs: if it has a red “Bug”, help us by investigating, discussing, reporting and fixing.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • make match phrases passable as an argument value
  • record based improve type inference bug

New releases

• Paket 0.31.6
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.85
• Suave.IO 0.25
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.11
• WebSharper-3.0.36-alpha
• Serilog.Extras.FSharp 1.4.196
• LM.NET for F# 1.7.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #8