F# Weekly #5, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# TV Gazette 2nd edition is out!
• Want to tell about your project to the whole world on Channel 9? Just tell about it to Seth Juarez.
• Spread the word! On Mar 4 is fsharpConf, a free worldwide online conference for F# and related technologies
• Announced: Columbus F# User Group
• The week in .NET – 1/25/2016
• New MEAP book “Reactive Applications with Akka.NET” from Anthony Brown
• Copenhagen University now teaches F# (Danish only)
• Average F# developer salary up 20% since same period last year
• Be a 3D Hero with UrhoSharp
• Microsoft Moves Its CNTK Machine Learning Toolkit To GitHub And MIT License

Videos/Presentations

• Continuously writing an iPhone app, on an iPad Pro, using F# – Frank Krueger
• Slack Type Provider – Flechner Romain

Blogs

• Star Wars social networks: The Force Awakens – Evelina Gabasova
• Interview with Henrik Feldt on Suave 1.0 – InfoQ / Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Building a random arts bot in F# – Yan Cui
• Microservices & Messaging – Jet / Krishna Vangapandu
• FizzBuzz and the Roman Numeral Kata are the Same Thing! – Mike Harris
• Exercises in Programming Style–Bulletin Board – Yan Cui
• (Co)Monoids for composable resource management in fsharp – Hodza Nassredin
• Learn how to Program – Counting Odd and Even Numbers – MoreCodes
• Project Euler — Problem 82 Solution – Yan Cui
• Less Code and Less Bugs : with Functional Programming languages – bos
• Interactive Coding with C# and F# REPLs (ScriptCS or the Visual Studio Interactive Window) – Scott Hanselman
• Implementing ValueConverters in F# – Scott Nimrod
• External JS library with WebSharper in F# – Kimserey Lam

Ernest Pazera coding corner

• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 22
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 23
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 24
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Finale
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 1

F# vNext News 

• Board Meeting – Dec 14th, 2015
• `dotnet new` now knows F#
• How to take forward the prototype of a Visual F# editor based on Roslyn
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Exclude mutable fields from GetHashCode in record types
  • Single-use / inline discriminated unions
  • Allow Attributes to follow the `member` keyword
  • remove Seq.rev from FSharp.Core again

Open source projects

• MITIE-Dot-Net – A Nice .NET Wrapper for the MITIE Information Extraction Library
• tjofgd-project1 – The Joy of Functional GameDev – Project #1
• BS – Implementation of the BS language as created by Mark Rendle at BuildStuff.lt 2014. Refer to this repo for information and canonical list of language features
• FsAkkaWeb – POC of using Akka + F# on the web with ASP.NET MVC5
• fsuno – Event sourcing implementation sample in F#

New Releases

• FSharp.Data.TypeProviders 5.0.0.2
• FSharp.Formatting 2.13.5
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 2.0.0.3
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 2.0.0.3
• FsReveal 1.1.2
• Trustpilot.FSharp.Flow 0.4.2
• fsharp-mode (20160126.745)
• Logary 3.6.1
• FAKE 4.17 with big internal changes
• Suave v1.1 with an automatically expanding buffer manager
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Sas 0.13
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Twitter 0.13

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #4