F# Weekly #18, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Voting is now open for the F# Software Foundation Board of Trustees election!
• F# Software Foundation Annual Members Meeting is coming. Join as a member to attend.
• Documentation for the F# Azure Storage Type Provider was published.
• F# can control Apple Watch.
• Visual Studio 2015 RC is available for download now.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• F# News – April 2015 – Adam Korczynski
• Clutter-Free Programming – John Azariah
• Creating cross platform mobile apps using F# and Xamarin – Chidotnetmob Devsgroup
• Slides for my Craft-Conf meetup talk on DSLs and F# – Yan Cui

Blogs

• Running Suave.io and F# with FAKE in Azure Web Apps with Git and the Deploy Button – Scott Hanselman
• Introducing F# 4.0 – Jonathan Allen
• Writing Monte Carlo Simulation for Derivative Pricing with Alea GPU – QuantAlea
• F# Xaml application – MVVM vs MVC – Māris Krivtežs
• Finding unused code (F#) – Jef Claes
• WebSharper site enhancements – Adam Granicz
• Why you should join F# Vienna – Andreas Schlapsi
• Introduction to Parser Combinators – Santi Albo
• Boswell, an open source error tracking library for WinRT – Alex Hardwicke
• Four MLs (and a Python) – The Breakfast Post
• Some Tips for Using C# Libraries in F# – Tamizh Vendan
• Catch of the month, April 2015 – Mathias Brandewinder
• Global Azure Bootcamp: Car Lab Analysis – Jamie Dixon

F# vNext News

• Rounding out Visual F# 4.0 in VS 2015 RC
• Quote Satya Nadella at Build 2015 – “F# is probably better for that.” (Webcast on demand: 7:30)
• Help Visual F# Team steer F# 4.0 through the final phase to release (please get involved).
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Language Integrate transpilers
  • Allow types to behave also like modules.

New releases

• FsCheck 2.0.0-alpha (an awesome automatic testing tool for C# and F#)
• Paket 1.3.3
• Akka.FSharp 1.0.1
• EventStore.Client F# API 4.0.2
• FSharp.Compiler.Tools 3.1.2.2
• FSharp.Formatting 2.9.4
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.1.6
• Period.FSharp 0.1.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #17