F# Weekly #13, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Election process for the F# Software Foundation 2015 Board of Trustees has begun!
• New Paket manager has a bootstrapper that does fallback to NuGet.exe if fails to download paket.exe from GitHub. Don’t forget to upgrade your paket.bootstrapper.exe.
• If you want to create the post for F# MSDN Magazin – please contact Ted Neward
• Welcome to functional programming on Slack (join #fsharp channel).
• Krzysztof Cieslak announced FSharp.Atom (set of Atom plugins for F# development).
• Tomas Petricek presented prototype atom package created using FunScript

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Ferop with Will Smith (a library to use inline C from F#)
• Domain Modelling with the F# Type System – Scott Wlaschin
• Mobile App Development with Xamarin and F# –  Rachel Reese
• F# for the C# Developer – Mathias Brandewinder
• Nerd Dinner With Brains – Jamie Dixon

Blogs

• Why I like F# – Colin Bull
• Upcoming F# book and event deals – Tomas Petricek
• F# European Tour – Riccardo Terrell
• Announcing SourceLink.exe – Cameron Taggart
• Developing Functional Clients – Part I – Coding Curmudgeon
• Dealing with FSharp missing .sigdata and .optdata – Myria Technologies
• Surge 2.0 Released – Alex Hardwicke
• WebSharper forum enhancements – Adam Granicz
• Step-9 Adding Checkout – Tamizh Vendan
• Rewriting a logistic regression from C# to F# (part 1) – Mathias Brandewinder
• F# WPF and the XAML type provider – An exploration – Steven Pemberton

F# vNext News

• Participate in discussions:
  • Align VisualF# with Fsharp.Compiler.Service
  • Visual FSharp Tools repo does not build for Unix — We should make it work
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Normalize Collections API for Array2D Module

New releases

• Paket 0.38.0-alpha
• WebSharper 3.0 RC
• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 1.13.0
• R.NET.Community .FSharp 0.1.13
• FSharp.RDF 1.0.30
• Aardvark.Base.FSharp 1.1.12
• FSharp.Actor-logary 3.0.3
• Serilog.Extras.FSharp 2.0.0
• Destructurama.FSharp 1.0.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #12