F# Weekly #22, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FSSF just passed a milestone, and signed up their 500th member.
• F# is #1 .NET language for analytics according to the annual KDNuggets poll.
• F# is now available in codingame platform.
• FsBlogger: Lightweight, markdown-based blog engine in F#
• F# Cheatsheet is now with semantic highlighting from FSharp.Formatting (PDF)
• F# Thailand – Bangkok. Already over 100 members!
• Mbrace starter kit!
• AleaGPU v2.1 soon ready to deliver with full support of cuDNN for deep network training.
• The FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq project needs a new logo, please assist!
• The FSharp.Core.Fluent project needs a new logo, please assist!
• Don Syme comment that is worth a read.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Functional Programming Design Patterns – Scott Wlaschin
• Scalable Machine Learning and Data Science with F# – Tomas Petricek (code)
• How to NLProc from .NET – Sergey Tihon
• Andrew Cherry on Freya
• End-to-end web – Tomas Petricek (Demo)

Blogs

• Introducing Nini, a micro web-framework for DNX written in F# – Alxandr
• Playing with AngularJS and Suave.IO – Andreas Willich
• A Fistful Of Dollars – Phil Trelford
• On my confusion on DDD, FP and OO – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
• What I dislike about F# – Nils Lück
• Creating WPF Metro style applications with MahApps.Metro – Māris Krivtežs
• A more functionally idiomatic approach to Akka.NET – Claus Sørensen
• System.AggregateException using Tweetinvi – Jamie Dixon
• Business Logic and F# – Jamie Dixon
• MBrace series from Lena Droid:
  • Functional approach to distributed computations and Big Data with F# MBrace cloud monads. Part 1.
  • Functional approach to distributed computations and Big Data with F# MBrace cloud monads. Part 2.
  • Functional approach to distributed computations and Big Data with F# MBrace cloud monads. Part 3.
• F# Friday – The fold Function – Brad Collins
• Supereasy histograms in F# – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
• User Groups and F# – Simon Foster
• Firm, a blog-aware, static site generator in F# – Andreas Ågren
• Using Census Data to Help Pick your Child’s Name – David Crook
• Why F#, and Why Not Windows – Composite Code
• Motif Finding with Gibbs Sampling (F#) – Boris Kogan
• Effective Concurrency with Algebraic Effects – KC Sivaramakrishnan

F# vNext News

• If you use F# for mobile development check out Xamarin for Visual Studio in the VS 2015 RC. Find the issues.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Allow match! in async workflows
  • Add support for forward piping the result of an async workflow
  • Extend custom numeric types to support floating point literals
  • Extend `with` keyword support to record definitions

New releases

• Paket 1.9.0
• FAKE v.3.34 with CMake support.
• F# mode for Emacs 1.5.3
• FSharp.RDF 1.0.50
• FSharp.Text.RegexProvider 0.0.7
• FSharp.Data.HList 0.1.1
• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 2.0.1
• FSharp.Compatibility.Haskell 0.1.12
• FSharp.Compatibility.Scala 0.1.12
• FSharp.Compatibility.StandardML 0.1.12
• FSharp.Compatibility.OCaml 0.1.12
• FSharp.Compatibility.OCaml.LexYacc 0.1.12
• FSharp.Compatibility.OCaml.Numerics 0.1.12
• FSharp.Compatibility.OCaml.Format 0.1.12
• FSharp.Compatibility.OCaml.System 0.1.12

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #21