F# Weekly #51, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Don’t miss and sign up for the F# TV Gazette, fill Christmas Cryptic Crossword and win “Machine learning projects for .Net developers” book!
• The week in .NET – 12/15/2015
• Learn F#, participate in Advent Of Code.
• New course from Isaac Abraham: “Up and Running with F#“
• Let’s start the era of support for `portable` profiles in OSS F# projects.
• Xamarin sponsored F# course to make it free for everyone
• F# Machine Learning / Data Science group in 2016
• FSSF is setting up Training & Communications working groups
• Welcome new EntityFramework 7 DbContext Type Provider.
• Suave is now available over HTTPS with Let’s Encrypt

Videos/Presentations

• MBrace: REPL driven scalable computation – Eirik Tsarpalis
• Concurrency with F# and Akka.NET –  Akim Boyko
• Orleans Virtual Meetup 7 – Richard Astbury
• On.NET 12/17/2015 – Miguel de Icaza

Blogs

• Chiron: JSON + Ducks + Monads – Marcus Griep
• Learn the machine! #fsharp #accord.net – @lenadroid
• F#, event sourcing and CQRS tutorial… and agents – Tomas Jansson
• Building an Hypermedia REST API with F# and Suave.IO – Alex Casquete
• The Star Wars social network – Evelina Gabasova
• Pseudocode-Driven Development with F# – Stachu Korick
• Advent of Code F# – Day 16 – Yan Cui
• A Mixed-Paradigm Recipe for Exposing Native Code – Paulmichael Blasucci
• 1729 – Kunjan Dalal
• Ukulele Fun for XMas ! – Jérémie Chassaing
• Using F# for scientific instrument control – Anton Tcholakov
• ReST vs CQRS: The Trigger Pattern – Matt Hawkins
• Angels From the Realms of Glory – Michael Newton
• Let It Snow! A basic particle system in F# and WPF – Steven Pemberton
• Developing mobile apps at the speed of light – Juan M Gómez
• Reactive Messaging Patterns with F# and Akka.NET – Jorge Fioranelli
• Early exit is a tail call optimization of procedural languages – Vladimir Khorikov
• Advent of Code F# – Day 1 to 6 – Yan Cui
• Refactoring to FParsec – Leif Battermann
• Scripting Form Scripts – Dr. Lambda Things
• Chiron: Taming Types in the Wild – Marcus Griep
• Organized Chaos with F# – Jet/Nora Jones
• User Groups and F# – Simon Foster
• Advent of Code F# – Day 16 – Yan Cui
• What Comes Next to Higher Order Functions – Nicolas A Perez
• Learning F# – Passing Parameters to Functions – Jan Van Ryswyck
• Functional composition – Robin Ridderholt
• RUST + F# + C# = ❤ – Sanket Saurav
• Importing Messages From Windows Phone to Android – Gustavo Guerra

F# vNext News 

• Latest release: V4.0.Update2.Preview-12.18.2015 (Is it ready for a full release? Please try it out, and find bugs.)
• Join the discussion: How to drive F# Adoption – Part 1 & Part 2 & Part 3
• Open Standup: Monday 12/21/2015 — 10:00 AM PT 10:30 AM PT
• Enrico Sada is working on .NET cli support for F#
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Automatic lazy wrapping of argument
  • Expand support for byref to match C# 7
  • Allow string literal formats for TimeSpan/DateTime e.g. “00:00:01″t for a TimeSpan(0,0,1)

Open source projects

• Aether – an open source optics (lenses, prisms, etc.) library for F#
• Chiron – an open source library for working with JSON in F#
• XrmContext – generates early-bound .NET framework classes which represent the entity model of the given Dynamics CRM instance
• ServiceFabricSuave – Minimal Suave Host for Azure Service Fabric
• FsOwin – an example of an F# OWIN API
• ifsharp – F# Profile for iPython Notebook 1.x and 2.x
• fhash – File Hashing Utility using F#
• tala – Community Edition of WcfStorm.Rest
• Shaver – Lightweight F# library for Suave.io web server using Razor engine adding some extra features like template composing, custom return codes or localization resources support.
• StarWarsMarkov – StarWars Markov Script Generator

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 1.4.2.3
• FSharp.Quotations.Evaluator 1.0.7
• Aether 8.0.2
• Chiron 6.0.1
• SwaggerProvider 0.2.0
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.10
• LanguageExt.Process.FSharp 1.7.10
• FsLibTool 0.1.1
• WebSharper 3.6.6

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

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