F# Weekly #34,#35,#36, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• List of F# community heroes for 2015
• Jet. Realtime Pricing, Realtime Advertising
• New MOOC: Programming in F#.
• F# Gotham is coming…
• Visual F# PowerTools now support lightweight interface implementation
• Argu – a declarative CLI argument/XML configuration parser for F# applications
• Suave.IO‏ : Hello World OWIN & Hello World, Nancy!
• FsLab Visual Studio template now supports VS 2015.
• “Machine Learning Projects for .NET Developers” is finally available on Amazon
• Paket 2.0 will introduce “Groups” and “Analyzers“
• Announcing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta7
• Mono 4.2.0 is released

Videos/Presentations

• Suave from Scratch with Henrik Feldt
• Fake+Paket With Steffen Forkmann
• 10 Ways of Getting Started with F# – Tomas Petricek
• 5th Anniversary – Manipulating Data Trees in Fungible with Rick Minerich
• Fsharp – Kolja Dummann
• Обзор F# 4.0 – Дмитрий Власов (slides)
• Introdução ao F# – Fabiano Arruda
• FSharp On The Desktop – Birmingham FP 2015 – Phillip Trelford
• Datatype Generic Programming in F# – Ernesto Rodriguez ,Wouter Swierstra

Blogs

• Recursive types, catamorphisms and folds – Scott Wlaschin
• Real-time analytics with Apache Storm – now in F# – Eugene Tolmachev
• F# – Flexera FNOC WCF with Basic Auth – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• F# Card Game Part 2 – Dealing Cards – Reid Evans
• Error: Successive arguments should be separated by spaces or tupled – Reid Evans
• YC.PrettyPrinter vs Microsoft.Text.StructuredFormat
• When x, y, and z are great variable names – Mark Seemann
• Try WebSharper: snippet versioning, gist import, and other enhancements now available – Adam Granicz
• Computation expression approach for calling REST API – Kimserey Lam
• New tools allow Microsoft’s functional language to work better with Visual Studio – Paul Krill
• F# Friday – The List.append Function – Brad Collins
• _____101 |> F# Coding Ecosystem: Paket && Atom w/ Paket – Λdrøn
• Wake County Voter Analysis Using FSharp, AzureML, and R – Jamie Dixon
• Single page application in F# with WebSharper UI.Next – Kimserey Lam
• F# Light Changes and Features – Heather
• Hackatron Prime – Mark Gray
• FSharpArm – part 2 – Frank Joppe
• Code Reuse with the SqlProgrammabilityProvider – Reid Evans
• F# Friday – The Seq.take and Seq.truncate Functions – Brad Collins
• Canopy : Automate your browser tests the F# way! – Antoine Sauvinet
• Facebook Api Using F# – Jamie Dixon
• Live F# coding and snippets with dependencies in Try WebSharper – Adam Granicz
• F# – Monty Hall problem – Yan Cui
• Best game programming books – Laurent Lepinay
• Exercises in Programming Style–Style 1 – Yan Cui
• Where did the Functional Languages come from? – FunctionalWorks
• “Getting” Functional Programming – Steve Gilham
• Decomposition Problem with F#, Dynamic Programming – Boris
• Stateless services on Azure Service Fabric in F# – Isaac Abraham
• Wake County Voter Analysis Using FSharp, AzureML, and R – Jamie Dixon
• Swagger for F# Web Apps – Sergey Tihon
• Important Languages You’ve Never Heard Of – Jeff Cogswell
• Random Art – Phillip Trelford

F# vNext News

• List of issues that Visual F# Team would love to have fixed for F# 4.0 update 1 (Great way to start contributing!)
• Don Syme has been working on aligning VisualFsharp with the FSharp Compiler Service
• Visual F# PowerTools hit 50000 downloads
• Check out ongoing integration of Visual F# PowerTools with FSharpLint
• Microsoft retools F# for Visual Studio 2015
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Structural, extensible records like Elm (concrete proposal)
  • Nonconstant arguments for type providers
  • Give ‘A+B+…’ as a type shorthand for Choice<a,b,…>
  • Relax inference for array/list/seq literals with #subtypes
  • Discriminated union type in order to be able to write exception free code in F#
  • Enable compression of FSharp.Core.dll with –standalone
  • Compiler Plugins like Rust
  • Allow type abbreviation extensions

New releases

• fszmq 12.1.1
• FAKE v4.3.6 (“soft dependencies”, TFS and VisualStudioOnline support, FluentMigrator)
• F# Azure Storage Type Provider 1.3.0
• SourceLink.Fake 1.1.0
• Logary 3.4.1
• WebSharper 3.4.14
• FSharp.RDF 1.1.4
• FSharp.Qualia 0.1.4
• CoreTweet.FSharp 0.5.3
• F# mode for Emacs 20150902.732
• atom-fsharp 0.13.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #33