F# Weekly #14, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Are you on the Slack? Do you want to have/to be a mentor? Join F# mentoring program.
• Visual F# PowerTools v1.8.0 is released – Easter edition with Navigate to Source & many improvements & bug fixes.
• Mono 4.0.0 is released (some open source Mono code replaced with “more efficient” open source Microsoft code).
• Xamarin Studio 5.9 was released in alpha channel. It includes a ton of fixes for F# and Xamarin. Mac unified support with templates.
• The F# Path to Data Scripting Nirvana is top rated and in the top 5 most viewed of dotnetconf.
• LINQPad 5 will have F# support!
• Kamil Wojciechowski presented Cronix (CRON like library, which allows to create windows service that will execute user defined tasks at given point in time)
• Sandor Rakonczai published F# logo in pure CSS
• “Speed. I am speed.” works for F# like a charm. – Sync.Today
• Feedback Request – F# Autocompletion for LinqPad
• Tomas Petricek added API Reference to FSharp.Formatting
• VB is going all lower case just like С# and F#.
• Ross McKinlay wrote type provider for Slack.
• Akka.NET v1.0 is Code Complete.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Spinning up “planets” with F# and OpenGL on mono – Mathias Brandewinder
• Course: Unit Testing with F# –  Mark Seemann
• Literate_programmin­g.With(“F#”­) – Tomas Petricek

Blogs

• Paket package resolution algorithm – Steffen Forkmann
• Why I Don’t Like the C# Language – Warren Young
• tldr; I ditched $IDE for F#/C# development in Emacs straight. – ioctl
• Routing in Nancy from F# – Dax Fohl
• How to use Vagrant and quickly setup a reproducible development environment for FAKE – Steffen Forkmann
• Creating a crosswalk table between WCPSS School assignment results and school report card school list – Jamie Dixon
• LambdaCon 2015 – Michael Newton
• Checked errors in F# – Jef Claes
• Pattern matching in action using C# 6 – Tomas Petricek
• Design Pattern: Abstract Factory – Alex Hardwicke
• Are You My Type? – Dave Thomas
• Unit Testing with F# Pluralsight course – Mark Seemann
• Step-10 Refactoring Composition Root – Tamizh Vendan
• Minsk F# User Group: New logo and wallpapers – Sergey Tihon
• 4 reasons to write your tests in F# – Claus Sørensen
• Generating music in F# part 3: Note values – Simo Råman
• Kick Off Build 2015 with Xamarin! – By Joseph Hill
• Slides from LambdaCon – Yan Cui
• Escrevendo testes de unidade com F# – Elemar Júnior

F# vNext News

• An open engineering birthday for Visual F#
• Please take the time to install the latest Visual F# Tools preview and help find the remaining bugs.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Type parameter grouping
  • Attributes to help resolve type inference
  • Support [<ProjectionParameter>] on non-CustomOperations, eg. for in () do
  • Add `apply` function to Seq, List and Array

New releases

• Paket 0.38.4
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.87
• FSharp.Compiler.CodeDom 0.9.2
• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 1.15.0
• FSharp.Control.Reactive 3.1.2
• FSharp.Formatting 2.8.0
• FSharp.RDF 1.0.35

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #13