F# Weekly #46, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Advent Calendar in English 2015 is filled!
• New FsReveal version (based on awesome reveal.js 3.2) is out
• Microsoft Azure Data Lake: Native support for F# with USQL
• Take the time to try F# Docker image
• A good article for choosing the right ORM
• Demo from Tomas Petricek Pluralsight course on F# and Type Providers, running live.
• Working self-contained getting-started sample for Suave Web Scripting
• New Book: F# for Machine Learning Paperback by Sudipta Mukherjee
• F# Script that creates word cloud
• Check out project teddy, it’s a talking teddy bear using ML, F# and Win10 IoT core

Videos/Presentations

• Coreclr F# Compiler building Hello, World on linux – Kevin Ransom
• A simple demo of Suave on the coreclr running on linux – Kevin Ransom
• MBrace: REPL driven scalable computation – Eirik Tsarpalis
• F# for Industrial Applications – Worth a Try? – Daniel Egloff
• Practical Machine Learning in F# by Sudipta Mukherjee at Functional Conf 15 (slides)
• Second FSharp.TV Hangout on Air
• Functional Programming; What? Why? When? – Robert C Martin
• 7 ineffective coding habits many F# programmers don’t have – Yan Cui (slides)

Blogs

• Archeological Semiotics: The Birth of the Pipeline Symbol, 1994 – Don Syme
• Options pricing in F# – Jan Fajfr
• Wonderland Katas, F# style – Mathias Brandewinder
• Simple Web API OWIN host using F# – Kevin Holditch
• How I learned to stop worrying and love the CI server – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
• F# Presentations at CodeMash 2016 – Craig Stuntz
• F# Community Hero – Dave Thomas
• Getting into FunScript – Mike Janger
• F# Friday – Seq.groupBy – Brad Collins
• Null has no type, but Maybe has – Mark Seemann
• Stateful Akka.NET actors with F# – Mark Watts
• Generic lenses for F# record-types – Dominic Graefen

F# vNext News 

• Open Standup for F# contributors and people interested in contributing: Monday 11/16/2015 10:00 -10:30 AM
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Add stable sort for Array module
  • Add “row polymorphism” aka “extensible records”
  • Lift parameter names from the callee

Open source projects

• soma – F# Sql Oriented MApping framework
• Exira.Route53Updater – a console application which updates a Route 53 record with the current EC2 hostname
• ges-runner – Exira.EventStore.Runner is a wrapper that uses Topshelf to run EventStore as a Windows Service
• fsharp.interop.dynamic – portable class library dynamic operator using the DLR
• ionide-fsharp – Set of Atom plugins for F# development
• TraktorAutoNextSong – A small tool for automatically finding next song to play when DJing using TraktorPro2
• FSharp.Automaton – port of automaton
• modelmod – A system for modifying art in games
• codesize – Code size visualization tool with PDB/ELF/Mach-O support
• argu – A declarative CLI argument/XML configuration parser for F#
• visualfsharpdocs – Visual F# Tools documentation repo

New Releases

• MBrace 1.0
• FAKE 4.9.1
• FsCheck 2.2.2
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.10.10.0
• SwaggerProvider 0.0.4-alpha
• Hornbill 1.3.4
• FSharp.Automaton 0.2.0
• FSharp.Control.AsyncLazy 1.0.0
• FSharpx.Reflection 1.9.7
• fsharp-mode (20151114.1700) — F# mode for Emacs
• Persimmon.Dried 1.1.0
• WebSharper 3.5.16

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #45