F# Weekly #16, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Campaign process for the 2015 F# Software Foundation Board of Trustees election has begun!
• F# Community celebrated F# Day! Check out the results of F# Community Survey.
• Paket 1.0 was released live on stage at fsharpex and looking for testimonials.
• WebSharper 3.0 is released.
• WorldBank Type Provider with tooltips and autocomplete running in Atom editor on Linux.
• Obfuscar 2.0.2 Beta 1 is out with support of obfuscating F# assemblies.
• You can now request Akka.NET company/meetup presentations and workshops.
• Elmo (Embeddable Lite Mongo) was announced (implemented in F#)
• Introduced LLILC – a new LLVM Compiler for .NET.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• The Big F# and Open-Source Love Story –  Tomas Petricek
• F# and SignalR for a fast Web – Riccardo Terrell
• Understanding cancer behaviour with F# – Evelina Gabasova
• Expression Oriented Programming with F# – Robert Pickering
• MBrace: harnessing the cloud with .NET – Nick Palladinos
• Developing Open Source tooling with F#: the story of Visual F# Power Tools – Anh-Dung Phan
• FAKE – A DSL for build tasks – Steffen Forkmann
• Computation expression in context : a history of the otter king – Andrea Magnorsky (slides)
• Meta-Programming Madness with the Mixin Type Provider – Ross McKinlay
• Railway Oriented Programming – Scott Wlaschin
• Making world statically typed with F# type providers – Michał Łusiak
• Introduction to Property-based Testing with F# – Mark Seemann
• Introduction to Orleankka (Functional API for Orleans actor framework) – Antya Dev
• Embracing Clouds using F#, {m}-brace and Azure – Alena Dzenisenka
• Reactive Single-Page Applications with Dynamic Dataflow – Simon Fowler, Loïc Denuzière and Adam Granicz

Blogs

• F# Exchange 2015 – Phil Trelford
• Basic OWIN Self Host With F# – Mike Hadlow
• Less is more: language features – Mark Seemann
• Some(“F#”) is better than None – Shane Charles
• Updated: F# Neural Networks with FsLab – Sergey Tihon
• Moving Surge.Core from C# to F# – Alex Hardwicke
• Super skinny XML document generation with F# – Nathan Evans
• Trees: I can’t be-leaf them – Bret Colloff
• Websharper Grid: Paste from Excel – Frank Joppe
• Parsing command line arguments with F# – Jef Cλaes
• How I compile the HDF5 Type Provider – Robert Nielsen
• Two More Reasons To Use F# – Jamie Dixon
• Refactoring McCaffrey’s Regression to F# – Jamie Dixon
• Do You Know These 5 Projects Open Sourced By Microsoft? – Openness

F# vNext News

• Microsoft Visual F# Tools has had over 175000 downloads since last August.
• Visual F# Team announced a new much simpler process for CLAs.
• Visual F# Team locked down the Visual F# codebase, but they are still open for F# bug fixes. Take a look at these F# bugs and join Visual F# Team in trying to get the bug count down before they ship, by fixing a couple.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Override `ToString` for discriminated unions and records

New releases

• Paket 1.0.0
• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack 1.1.3.64
• FSharp.RDF 1.0.40
• CloudSharper 0.9.30
• FSharp.Quotations.Compiler 0.2.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #15