F# Weekly #44, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• There are still 5 free slots in F# Advent Calendar in English 2015, please join.
• If you deploy production code in F#, please add a testimonial to fsharp.org (Just edit and send a PR)
• Original Japanese “F# Advent Calendar 2015” was announced.
• Using Paket from F# Interactive
• MBrace contributing guide.
• Free F# programming course, courtesy of Xamarin & FSharp TV
• F# finally has an official docker image
• MBrace.Azure now has a simple way to provision Azure clusters from F# Interactive
• Running an iterative algorithm at scale with incremental notifications
• Collaboration to Translate C++ to F#
• C# Interactive meets Vagabond
• Early View of C# 7 with Mads Torgersen
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC
• List of Automated Testing (TDD/BDD/ATDD/SBE) Tools and Frameworks for .NET
• LLILC at Six Months – a Retrospective

Videos/Presentations

• F# Cloud Programming – Real World Topics – Yi Wei
• Everything Old is New Again: Quoted Domain Specific Languages – Philip Wadler
• F# 4.0 with Lincoln Atkinson
• FsCheck: For Each Function There Exist Properties to Be Checked – Paulmichael Blasucci
• Currying in a Hurry – Jeremy Abbott
• www.fsharp.tv/learn-f#

Blogs

• Chess Piece Design In F# – Mohammad Shuvo
• Async Programming in F# – Phillip Carter
• Functional vs. imperative error handling – Leif Battermann
• F# Friday – List.tryHead – Brad Collins
• LINQ Challenge #1 Answers in F# – Mark Heath
• Take control of your build, CI and deployment with FSharp FAKE – Tomas Jansson
• Sequential Logic Emulation with F# – Part 2 – Steven Pemberton
• Exercises in Programming Style–Code Golf – Yan Cui
• SQL Type Providers and Continuous Integration with FAKE – Leif Battermann
• F# – Time Traveling Debugger – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• F# Friday – Array.last and Array.tryLast – Brad Collins

F# vNext News 

• Please help test this important PR “Migrate Cambridge test suite (tests/fsharp) runner to NUnit“

Open source projects

• awesome-dotnet – a collection of awesome .NET libraries, tools, frameworks and software
• Cronix – an open source job scheduling library
• full-build – a smart build system
• Markov Bot Dojo – a simple computer program built to simulate a conversation
• PostgresDoc – unit of work + document database on Postgresql
• fuchu – functional test library for F#/C#/VB.NET
• vagabond – a library for distributing dynamic assemblies
• persimmon – a unit test framework for F# using computation expressions
• fseye – a visual object tree inspector for the F# Interactive
• matprovider – type provider for .mat files
• ionide-websharper – WebSharper for the Ionide plugin suite
• wonderland-fsharp-katas – F# port of gigasquid/wonderland-clojure-katas
• FSharp.Client.Formlet

New Releases

• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack 1.1.3.76
• Suave.LibUv 0.33.0-libuv1 (docs)
• F# Data Toolbox (Sas) 0.11.0
• F# Data Toolbox (Twitter) 0.11.0
• FSharp.Charting 0.90.13
• FSharp.Azure .StorageTypeProvider 1.4.0
• WebSharper 3.5.13
• FSharp.Management 0.3.1
• Simple.Wpf.FSharp.Repl 1.23.0.0
• CoreTweet.FSharp 0.6.0.251
• FSharp.Actor-logary 3.4.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #43