F# Weekly #42, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Preview Release: Xamarin Studio 6.0 with Roslyn Support
• Expert F# 4.0 is coming…
• New book: Multi-Paradigm Programming Using F# and .NET by Ali Baghernejad
• FeldSpar – Opinionated Purely Functional Unit Test Framework
• fsharp-dnx – F# + ASP.NET vNext (DNX) support
• fsharp-dnx-templates – Visual Studio templates for creating DNX projects with F#.
• Open Source Software from Microsoft for Academics – Microsoft Research
• Introducing ReSharper Build
• Introduction to F# Programming by FsharpTV
• Almost 900 GitHub projects use Paket.
• Anyone interested in being involved in making an F# based OSS web CMS? Please contact @jeroldhaas.

Videos/Presentations

• Better Code with Functional Programming with Dave Fancher
• F# in the Real World – Yan Cui
• Real World Event Sourcing and CQRS – Matt Hawkins
• Currying in a Hurry – Jeremy Abbott
• Dr Frankenfunctor and the Monadster – Scott Wlaschin
• Computation expressions in context – Andrea Magnorsky
• Reactive & Concurrency F# workshop – Riccardo Terrell
• FSharp Coding Hangout with FSharp.TV

Blogs

• Crazy stuff people do with FAKE and Paket – 1 of n – Steffen Forkmann
• A Docker to try building F# for CoreCLR on Linux – Cameron Taggart
• Random Art Generation with F# – Richard Griffiths
• Automating Xamarin Builds With FAKE – Part 2: Building PCL, IOS, And Android Projects – Jonathan Wood
• Simple Calculator In F# – Mohammad Shuvo
• Implementing Your Own Version of F#’s List.Filter – Cameron Presley
• Functional queueing with RabbitMQ and F# –  Claus Sørensen
• Eliminating Bugs with Single Case Discriminated Unions – Reid Evans
• Mini US Tour – Fall 2015 – Phillip Trelford
• Lenses in F# – Mark Watts
• F# Friday – Seq.choose – Brad Collins
• FSharp Gotham – Experience report – Andrea Magnorsky
• Comparing C# and F# code – Frank Joppe
• Constraints in FSharp – Tomas Jansson
• Bulk SQL projections with F# and type providers – Jef Claes
• Day #20 – Units of measure – fsharpdaybyday

F# vNext News 

• Latest Visual F# 4.0 Update 1 preview for VS 2015
• The F# issue: “Visual Studio locking access to xml doc files”. VSplat has fixed it. It’s in VS2015 Update 1
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Match discriminates on both argument evaluation and thrown exception
  • Catch improper use of monadic return in async

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #41