F# Weekly #4, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Save the date March 4th 2016 for the live streaming of the first year of fsharpConf, a free virtual event featuring world-class F# experts across the globe
• Jet.com case-study
• ASP.NET 5 is dead – Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0
• Paket now has syntax coloring (powered by FSharp.Formatting)
• F# Helpers for VSTS (F# scripting support for VSTeam, plus support for Fake and Paket)
• Xamarin Studio 6.0 preview with cool F# Enhancements and F# Shared Projects!!!
• The week in .NET – 1/19/2016
• Community for F# is looking for speakers and code reviewers for upcoming c4fsharp hangouts. Anyone interested or have suggestions of topics / speakers?

Videos/Presentations

• On .NET 1/21/2016 – Don Syme on F#
• Developer On Fire: Episode 086 – Tomas Petricek – Remeber Curiosity

Blogs

• Running F# on Microsoft Azure – Isaac Abraham
• Project Euler — Problem 102 Solution – Yan Cui
• MapFold OR Set Phasers to Fun – Mike Harris
• EmParsec Embedded Parser Library – Michael Newton
• Using F# on Linux – Jonathan Curran
• Chart-tastic F# Goodness – Bear & Hammer
• .NET: A look through F# lenses – Jacqueline Homan
• Quick setup with Paket and .fsx scripts – Kimserey Lam
• Slides from my talk at MF#K – Kristian Schmidt
• F# and C# being bros –  Adam Guest
• Functional Hangul Parser in F# – Jun-young Bang
• Exercises in Programming Style–Hollywood – Yan Cui
• About Cassandra on Docker with F# – @lenadroid
• Continuous delivery with FAKE, Paket and TeamCity – Tomasz Heimowski

Ernest Pazera coding corner

• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 6
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 7
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 LOST EPISODE 8
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 9
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 10
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 11
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 12
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 13
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 14
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 15-19
• The Joy of Functional GameDev with Ernest Pazera Episode 20

F# vNext News 

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Add filtermap to the standard library

Open source projects

• user-ops – Exira.Users is an event sourced microservice to manage users
• Trustpilot.FSharp.Flow – A library for building contract based execution flows
• Neo4j.FSharp – F# client library for the Neo4j graph database
• Neo4jTypeProvider – An F# type provider for Neo4j
• IoX – The Internet of everything interconnection runtime
• servicefabricsuavestateful – Sample of stateful and stateless Service Fabric services with Suave
• AkkaActorModel – Akka.NET and MailboxProcessor Code Samples
• FSharp.Interactive.Intellisense – Intellisense support for Visual Studio F# interactive

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.CodeDom 0.9.4
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.5.2
• Akka.FSharp 1.0.6
• FSharp.Formatting 2.13.4
• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack 1.1.3.88
• Unquote 3.1.1 released adding / fixing support for NUnit 3
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.10
• SwaggerProvider 0.3.4
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.12.0

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

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