F# Weekly #47, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Two free slots in F# Advent Calendar in English 2015!
• Ionide-fsharp is now in VS Code (with FAKE and Paket plugins). Join the Ionide family and contribute!
• New free ebook: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with F# by Tomas Petricek
• Xebec is coming!
• Mono 4.2 is now in the stable channel
• Machine Learning in Action – in F#
• How does Paket stack up against NuGet 3’s project.json?
• Vote if you like: Octopus Deploy – Allow the use of F# script (.fsx) in place of Powershell/ScriptCS
• Test-Driven Development with F# is free with VS Enterprise
• We’re looking for someone who volunteers to update FAKE’s NUnit helper to v3
• F# FunScript Office365 Add-in

Videos/Presentations

• Lean and Functional Programming – Bryan Hunter
• Types + Properties = Software – Mark Seemann
• Panel Discussion Code Mesh (Tony Hoare, Don Syme, Joe Armstrong, Josh Watzman)
• Welcome/Introduction and Doing Data Science with FsLab – Tomas Petricek, David Stephens, Brody Berg
• Crunching through big data with MBrace, Azure and F# – Mathias Brandewinder
• Functional Geekery Episode 35 – Rachel Reese
• Getting Started with Visual F# – David Stephens
• Generative Art – Functional Vilnius 2015 – Phillip Trelford

Blogs

• Understanding Parser Combinators – Scott Wlaschin
• Implementing F# interactive intellisense support for Visual Studio – Aleksey Vlasenko
• Npm build with F# FAKE – Tomas Jansson
• T4 Generates my business objects for me revisited with F# – Brandon D’Imperio
• A Few Hours With….F# – Bear & Hammer
• F# + ML |> MVP Summit – Tomas Petricek
• Kafka/Visual Studio Code/OSS… Distributed Consensus, Things to Learn – Composite Code
• Release of MBrace 1.0, a Distributed Programming Framework for .NET – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Generic lenses for F# record-types – Dominic Graefen
• F# tackles James Bond – Evelina Gabasova
• Constructing lenses using quotations -Mark Watts
• F# Friday – Array.splitAt – Brad Collins

F# vNext News 

• F# Open Standup: Monday 11/23/2015 — 10:00 AM pt 10:30 AM pt
• The MSDN overview docs for the F# language are now open source and accepting pull requests
• F# for CoreCLR Status
• Merged: Migrate Cambridge test suite (tests/fsharp) runner to NUnit
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Add function parameter default value shorthand

Open source projects

• freya – functional-first web stack, including an HTTP finite state machine, built on top of OWIN
• Exira.SimpleHttpServer – a simple HTTP server to serve static files
• Exira.StaticMailer – a REST endpoint running in a Windows Service to enable static sites to easily send mail.
• fscontrol – An F# base library with standard ad-hoc polymorphic functions over primitive types
• mitls-fstar – TLS implemented in F*
• telefone – Telegram bot library in F#
• Fun Basic
• vim-fsharp – F# bindings for vim
• MBrace.AWS – MBrace runtime implementation targeting Amazon Web Services

New Releases

• FSharp.Control.AsyncLazy 1.2.0
• SwaggerProvider 0.1.1-beta
• GeographicLib.FSharp 0.0.151117.45
• FSharp.RDF 1.1.97
• Akka.NET .FSharp.API.Extensions 0.1.0.2
• MBrace.Azure v 1.1
• FSharp.Dnx 1.0.0-beta1
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.7
• MBrace.Azure 1.1.4
• FSharp.IO.FileSystem 1.1.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #46