F# Weekly #12, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# community, please help F# 4 by hosting a Bug Bash Dojo at your local meetup!
• WebSharper 3.0 RC is released!
• Don’t miss three F# webcasts next Tuesday “Domain Modelling with the F# Type System“, “Mobile App Development with Xamarin and F#“, “F# for the C# Developer“.
• Welcome a new m-brace site.
• Code example for IBM Watson Developer Cloud API calls in F#.
• Interested in building F# support for Atom? Join the discussion.
• Welcome ID3TagProvider.
• MSBuild is open-source now.
• Using the MathDotNet Numerics MKL native provider in F# interactive & LINQPad  is much simpler in v3.6
• FAKE released with VB6 support.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• The F# Path to Data Scripting Nirvana –  Tomas Petricek, Isaac Abraham, Don Syme
• The Actor Model in F# and Akka.Net – Riccardo Terrell
• Tomas Petricek on F#, Type Providers, Functional and Reactive Programming
• Literate_programmin­g.With(“F#”­) – Tomas Petricek
• Look, No Mocks! Functional TDD with F# – Mark Seemann
• Proving Things About Biology – Samin Ishtiaq
• The Tools that Shape Us – Andrea Magnorsky
• FSCL (Homogeneous programming, scheduling and execution on heterogeneous platforms) – Gabriele Cocco/Ph.D. Thesis

Blogs

• Streamline Your Vector Algebra With F# – Marc Sigrist
• Aggregation of WCPSS Tax Records with School Assignment – Jamie Dixon
• A more functionally idiomatic approach to Akka.NET – Claus Sørensen
• Getting wooed by F# – Pieter Koornhof
• Seven ineffective coding habits many F# programmers don’t have – Yan Cui
• NancyFx |> F# – Tiny Blue Robots
• Step-8 Adding Shopping Cart – Tamizh Vendan
• Web APIs vs RPC – Ryan Riley
• How to use the HDF5 Type Provider – Robert Nielsen
• POSTing JSON to an F# Web API – Mark Seemann
• Observing the size of generated test data – Nikos Baxevanis
• .NET F# to crack top 10 programming languages
• Philly Code Camp – 2015
• Code Quotations en F# – Alex Casquete

F# vNext News

• If you want a Cup<‘t> – participate in Visual F# Tools March 2015 Bug bash
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Compound types

New releases

• F# Data 2.2.0
• Paket 0.35.6
• FAKE 3.24.0
• Math.NET Numerics for F# 3.6.0
• FSharp.RDF 1.0.23
• FSharp.Quotation.Disassembler 0.1.0.2
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.1
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.7.1
• Aardvark.Base.FSharp 1.1.8
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.0.5
• F# mode for Emacs(20150320.521)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #10