F# Weekly #48, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Advent Calendar in English 2015 has already started!
• Check out new release of Visual F# PowerTools. Code outlining, highlighting printf arguments, performance improvements and more!
• Erik Meijer’s Hacker’s Way
• Please comment on the direction you’d like to see FSharpLint take
• fsharpWorks has 6 awesome F# courses ready
• Want a new version of fssnip for Xmas? We need just 8 remaining things! Some are good for F# beginners too!
• Distributing Python code using mbrace
• Using the R type provider with MBrace
• Check out VsVim – an addin for VS written in F#
• Hashids F# implementation
• Could Hoboken-based start up ‘Jet’ be the new Amazon?
• Finding security bugs on the road to creating a verifiably secure TLS lib
• BASH completion for FAKE tasks

Videos/Presentations

• F# (Future Decoded 2015 UK) – Don Syme
• Herding Code 213: Sean Trelford on Composing 3D Objects with F# and OpenGL
• Visual Studio Code – Connect(); // 2015
• MBrace: REPL-driven scalable computation with Eirik Tsarpalis (Part 1 of 2)
• MBrace: REPL-driven scalable computation with Eirik Tsarpalis (Part 2 of 2)
• FAKE + Paket part 1 with Steffen Forkmann
• FAKE + Paket part 2 with Steffen Forkmann
• Practical Machine Learning in F# by Sudipta Mukherjee at Functional Conf 15
• F# and the Cloud – Isaac Abraham
• Nusbio – Controlling LEDs with F#
• 7 ineffective coding habits many F# programmers don’t have – Yan Cui

Blogs

• Microsoft Open Sources Quantum Computing
• F# Keyboard Bindings with AutoHotkey – TeaDrivenDev
• How Jet Build Microservices with F# – Rachel Reese
• Creating Dynamic Uris For Visual Studio Web Tests – Jamie Dixon

F# vNext News 

• F# Open Standup: Monday 11/30/2015 — 10:00 AM PT 10:30 AM PT
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Introduce the ?. operator into F#

Open source projects

• SuaveAzureCloudService – Example project illustrating how to host Suave in an Azure Cloud Service.
• Liquid – The Language-Integrated Quantum Operations (LIQUi|>) simulator
• Hutton – F# implementation of Graham Hutton’s parser combinator library from chapter 8 of his book Programming in Haskell
• Countdown – F# countdown problem implementation of chapter 11 of Graham Hutton’s book Programming in Haskell
• diamondfscheck – The Diamond kata done with Property-Based Testing in F#
• SentimentAnalysisDemo – Talk on sentiment analysis of tweets using F#
• OctoProv – A very, very incomplete type provider for Octopus Deploy
• FCor – F# Numerical Library
• Persimmon.Dried – Random testing for Persimmon

New Releases

• FSharp.IO.FileSystem 3.2.1
• FSharp.RDF 1.1.101
• Math.NET Numerics for F# 3.9.0
• FSharp.Desktop.UI 0.7.1
• FSharpLog 1.2.0
• PrivateEye 0.3.1
• WebSharper 3.6 released with CDN support
• fsharp-mode (20151124.736) – F# mode for Emacs

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #47