F# Weekly #26, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Released Visual F# PowerTools v1.9.0 with QuickInfo panel & big improvements on performance/responsiveness. Check out updated FAQs.
• Syntax highlighting for F# Interactive
• RethinDB + SignalR (F#) + FunScript + React (in FunScript)
• Released an improved version of F# data toolbox. Provides a nice API for accessing Twitter.
• Vote if you like it: “Add F# support for .NET Native“

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Let’s build a Unity game with F# – Ryan Kilkenny
• Enter­prise Tic-Tac-Toe — A func­tional approach – Scott Wlaschin
• Com­pu­ta­tion expres­sion in con­text : a his­tory of the otter king – Andrea Mag­norsky
• Type-Driven Devel­op­ment — Mark See­mann
• Event Sourc­ing and DDD with F# – Jérémie Chas­saing
• Crunch­ing through big data with MBrace, Azure and F# – Math­ias Bran­dewinder
• F# for C# Devel­op­ers – Phillip Trelford
• End-to-end Func­tional Web Devel­op­ment – Tomas Pet­ricek
• Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming – Thomas VanDrunen
• Увлекательное введение в функциональное программирование на F# – Дмитрий Сошников.

Blogs

• Inventing new measures of time with F# – Isaac Abraham
• Announcing Paket.PowerShell – Cameron Taggart
• FAKE: Create NuGet Packages without knowing a tiny bit of F# – Robert Muehsig
• All the FP talks at NDC Oslo – Yan Cui.
• Has C# Peaked? – Phillip Trelford
• the barber of springfield – Carsten König
• Comparing SQL Server 2012 Data Access with F# – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
• F# Friday – The Option Type, Part 1 – Brad Collins
• Topshelf F# api improved – Tomas Jansson
• Suave as a service with Topshelf – Tomas Jansson

F# vNext News

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Add atom syntax
  • Add constraints as a language construct

New releases

• Visual F# Power Tools 1.9.0
• Paket 1.18.2
• Atom-fsharp 0.6.0
• FSharp.Formatting 2.9.10
• FSharp.Azure 1.0.2
• Logary 3.3.3
• F# Data Toolbox (Twitter) 0.7.0
• WebSharper 3.2.10
• Topshelf.FSharp 2.0.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #25