F# Weekly #1, 2016 – New Year Edition

Welcome to F# Weekly,

Thank you to all who participated and read this year “F# Advent Calendar in English 2015“. We did it once again and it was amazing!!!

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The week in .NET – 12/29/2015
• New book: Mastering .NET Machine Learning

Videos/Presentations

• Actor-based Concurrency with F# and Akka.NET at .NET Framework Day (slides)
• LambdaConf 2015 – Freya F# for HTTP Systems Andrew Cherry Part 1
• LambdaConf 2015 – Freya F# for HTTP Systems Andrew Cherry Part 2
• Lean and Functional Programming – Bryan Hunter
• Functional Geekery Episode 37 – Eric Smith

Blogs

• Visualizing F# Advent Calendar contributors – Pierre Irrmann
• Implementing API Gateway in F# Using Rx and Suave – Tamizh Vendan
• Happy New Year 2016 around the World – Tomas Petricek
• Welcome to 2016 – A Call to Action – F# Software Foundation
• Reconciling Stacktraces with Computation Expressions – Eirik Tsarpalis
• F# – Puresort of lists (Okasaki) – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Beyond lists – Copenhagen 2015 – Phillip Trelford
• Opening Locks – Ernest Pazera
• A safer way to use F# with SQL CLR – A safer way to use F# with SQL CLR
• Learning F# – The Thunderdome Principle for Functions – Jan Van Ryswyck
• Year in Review, 2015 – Yan Cui
• F# Presentations at CodeMash 2016 – Craig Stuntz
• How to write the simplest trading strategy using Spreads – Victor Baybekov
• Procedural Invaders – Phillip Trelford
• Introducing XPlot, a Chart Generation Library for F# – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• About Cassandra on Docker with F# – @lenadroid
• Look-and-say: F# – Boris Kogan
• Seeking Game Balance – Ernest Pazera

F# vNext News 

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • In a pattern match use the record field name as a default binding if none is provided

Open source projects

• Xebec – Imagine a world where you could have your F# fun without the msbuild pain, misery, and suffering …
• msc-dissertation-code – F# forecasting ML Algorithm
• pricingmodelstudy – Exploration of how a pricing model might work in F#
• oandafs – F# library for OANDA REST API
• chessie – Railway-oriented programming for .NET
• WPF-Rethought
• symexec – Demonstration of state/list monad as an API for symbolic execution
• fsharpx.cmdlet – F# PowerShell Cmdlets
• fsharp.comprovider – F# type provider for COM interop
• fsharp.desktop.ui – F# MVC framework for WPF

New Releases

• Paket 2.40.2 with lots of bug and performance fixes
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Twitter 0.12.0
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Sas 0.12.0
• Stanford.NLP.NET 3.6.0
• Stanford.NLP.Parser.Fsharp 0.0.12
• FSharp.ViewModule.Core 0.9.9.2 –  Pure PCL now, and backing fields are now IObservable<T>
• FSharp.Formatting 2.13.0
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.9
• MathNet.Numerics.FSharp 3.10.0
• Imms.FSharp 0.5.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #52