F# Weekly #52, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The F# Software Foundation is now officially a public charity in the United States!
• Expert F#4.0 is out!
• The week in .NET – 12/22/2015
• Exceptions and Fault tolerance & Cloud Gotchas with MBrace
• Christmas present for Paket users: Lots of performance fixes in the latest version.
• Over 1000 students have now signed up for F# TV course.

Videos/Presentations

• Introduction to Visual F# in Visual Studio 2015: Movie 1 – Eriawan Kusumawardhono
• Introduction to Visual F# in Visual Studio 2015: Movie 2 – Eriawan Kusumawardhono

Blogs

• Automatic re-build and background tasks for suave.io websites – Steffen Forkmann
• Property-based testing XSLT – Tomasz Heimowski
• Hacking together @wbfacts, a World Bank Twitter Bot – Mathias Brandewinder
• F# Advent Calendar 2015 – Chad Boyer
• F# advent 2015 – some fun with lambda calculus – Carsten König
• Getting Started with SignalR using F# and OWIN – Troy Kershaw
• Comparing trees, functionally – Matthew Sottile
• Designing for Problems Too Big to Test – Craig Stuntz
• Monogame SnowFlakes – 2015 – Richard Griffiths
• F# Powered Realtime Dashboard – Louie Bacaj
• WebSharper – a year in review – Adam Granicz
• F#, Minecraft and a Raspberry Pi – Chris Dobson
• Generating Markov text from YouTube comments – @squeekeeper
• Twitter Local – Indy Garcia
• Visualizing event streams – Jef Claes
• Introducing Spreads library – buybackoff
• Data Science in F# using FsLab: Interview with Tomas Petricek –  InfoQ – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Numerology calculations with F# – Vedhava Sodhi
• Learning F# – The Thunderdome Principle for Functions – Jan Van Ryswyck
• F# Fsharp Only – Access to ANY Database by System.Data.Common -WPF – Vasily Kalugin
• F# – Conditional Expressions vs. Pattern Matching – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Advent of Code F# – Day 7 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 8 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 9 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 10 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 11 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 12 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 13 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 14 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 15 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 17 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 18 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 19 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 20 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 21 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 22 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 23 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 24 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 25 – Yan Cui

F# vNext News 

• Paddy McDonald ported NUnit based tests to Core CLR
• F# out of the box in dotnet CLI

Open source projects

• Fsharp.EntityFramework.MicrosoftSQLServer – EntityFramework 7 DbContext scaffolding for SqlServer
• Cricket – An actor framework for F#
• FsPlot – F# Data Visualization Library
• docoptnetprovider – An F# Type Provider for docopt.net

New Releases

• FSharp.Formatting 2.12.1
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.8
• SwaggerProvider 0.3.2
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.15
• RouteProvider 0.0.1-beta4

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #51