F# Weekly #28, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• A Complete List of .NET Open Source Developer Projects
• Become a beta-tester of PrivateEye.
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient. Dealing with transactions & Data modification
• “Thank you for your contributions” – .NET Team.
• A Look At Akka.NET
• Awesome F# Course

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• New book: Machine Learning Projects for .NET Developers Paperback – Mathias Brandewinder
• Machine learning the F# way – Evelina Gabasova
• Visual Studio & .NET on OS-X, Linux, and Windows – Adron Hall
• Troll Hunting on the Internet – Gary Short
• PrivateEye – Greg Young
• Lightning Talks – Sean Trelford, Ronald Mavarez, Martin Gravråk, Michał Śliwoń and Stian Veum Møllersen
• F# at GameSys – Yan Cui
• Магия F# для обработки данных: монады, провайдеры типов и немножко теории категорий – Дмитрий Сошников

Blogs

• Parallelizing Async Tasks with Dependencies – Riccardo Terrell
• How “Functional” F# Really Is? – Ivan Krivyakov
• Nifty things in F# – Robin Ridderholt
• The Counted: Initial Analysis Using FSharp and R – Jamie Dixon
• How To: Example application with data access in F# – Reid Evans
• F# Friday – The Option Type, Part 3 – Brad Collins
• Refactoring the Monadster – Scott Wlaschin
  • Dr Frankenfunctor and the Monadster
  • Completing the body of the Monadster
  • Refactoring the Monadster
• F# – Fibonacci with CSP and F# Agents – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Meta-Matic – Dave Thomas

F# vNext News

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • F# interactive could support saving and loading its state to/from a file
  • Revert back to an accepted feature the delayed implementation of interfaces

New releases

• FsCheck 2.0.3
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 1.3.1 & 1.4.0-beta
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.7.3
• FSharp.Charting 0.90.12
• FsPickler 1.2.13
• F# Data 2.2.5
• FSharp.Management 0.2.1
• FSharp.QueryProvider 1.0.1
• Nameless Interactive FSharp MongoDB 0.0.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #27