F# Weekly #11, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# is at number 11 at Tiobe
• Microsoft/VisualFsharp and fsprojects/VisualFsharpPowerTools rooms on gitter.
• If you deploy production code in F#, please add a testimonial.
• If you use F# with Azure – please contact David Crook
• Tomas Petricek updated his fancy-domain web with books & trainings.
• FAKE  has basic support for Azure Cloud services
• FAKE 3.21 allows to run targets in parallel
• SEEK (Australia’s biggest job search site) is using FAKE.
• Tomas Petricek is working on new features for BigDeedle that let you treat partitioned big data source as a single series.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Compose Conference – Type Providers and Error Reflection in Idris – David Christiansen
• Concurrency in F# – Riccardo Scannicchio
• Machine Learning for Programming – Peter Norvig

Blogs

• Lambda Days and dev At Lodz – Andrea Magnorsky
• Fun Basic Preview – Phillip Trelford
• Master builders – Andrew Cherry
• Combining Wake County Real Estate Lookup with Wake County School Assignment – Jamie Dixon
• Back to School…Again – Eric Lobdell
• Programming Language Safety Algorithm – Steve Shogren
• Access Data Easier With F# Type Providers – Jonathan Wood
• F# Units of Measure – A Worked Example – Steven Pemberton
• Dependency injection – a functional way – Carsten König
• Interest in F# trending (slowly) upwards – IT World
• Custom attributes on F#’s Discriminated Union Cases
• Drawing some Turtles from a svg file generated by F# – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
• A functional choice – Marc Costello
• Mocking IoT Telemetry Data with Azure – David Crook
• My F# Journey – F# Learning Resources – Derek Comartin
• Which programming language should I learn in 2015? – Matthew Adams

F# vNext News

• If you want a Cup<‘t> – participate in Visual F# Tools March 2015 Bug bash
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Composite types
  • Lazy properties
  • Please make correct type casting for bigint in F#
  • Allow nested Computation Expression for writing Builder Like DSLs

New releases

• Paket 0.35.0
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.0
• FSharp.Quotations.Evaluator 1.0.6
• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack 1.1.3.62
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.6.2
• Chessie 0.0.23
• Aardvark.Base.FSharp 1.1.7
• Yaaf.FSharp.Helper 0.1.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #10