F# Weekly #49, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Jupyter notebooks in the Azure cloud, free, and executable
• New book: F# 4.0 Design Patterns by Gene Belitski
• New book: Mastering F# by Alfonso García-Caro Núñez, Suhaib Fahad
• AWS Lambda Supports C#
• The week in .NET – Cosmos on On.NET, GongSolutions.WPF.DragDrop, Transistor

Videos/Presentations

• Predicting future stock prices with F# and Azure Machine Learning – Jakub Jedryszek
• 1380 Building an Azure Search Engine with Anthony Brown
• .NET Standard – Introduction – Immo Landwerth
• Introducing Rider, the New .NET IDE
• DotNet Core with Lee Coward and Immo Landwerth

F# Advent Calendar

• F# Data Visualization for a Neophyte – CDC Open Data – Rick Pack
• Easy domain modelling with types – Mark Seemann
• Introduction to Azure IoT with Fsharp – Bill Berry
• Introducing Stream Processing in F# – Mikhail Shilkov
• Using OpenCL on F# via FSCL – josesoyo
• Tree Shaking with Fable – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• NeuralFish – Evolving Neural Topologies in F# – Jeremy Bellows
• Context matters – Steffen Forkmann
• Semantic Versioning .NET libraries and NuGet packages – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• A Host of Issues: Migrating from UserVoice To GitHub Issues with Canopy and OctoKit.net – Chet Husk
• F# in Production – Kristian Schmidt

Blogs

• Advent Coding Fun – Mark Heath
• F# on AWS Lambda – Luke Merrett
• Learning F# with Azure Functions – Anthony Chu
• Mixed Feelings About FsUnit – Jeremy Bytes
• Simple Mocking in FsUnit (I Like This) – Jeremy Bytes
• Google Logging from log4net – Cameron Taggart
• Html Provider + Canopy – Colin Bull
• An unassuming F# study plan – Biarity
• Solutions for Advent of Code:
  • Day 1–Easter Bunny HQ
  • Day 2–Bathroom Code
  • Day 3–Counting Triangles

F# vNext

• PR: Enable zooming in F# Interactive window
• Available Azure F# Notebooks:
  • fsharp-advanced-guide
  • fsharp-data-usa-states-example
  • fsharp-data-xplot-template
  • fsharp-intro
  • fsharp-paket-template
• New ideas:
  • Signature Files should effect the type inference in the corresponding implementation file

Open source projects

• LinqToSalesforce – Linq provider to generate SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language)
• canopy-mono – canopy F# port to mono (sans Visual Studio or Mono Develop)
• linux-intro-course – a gentle introduction to programming networked services on linux
• fsharp-template-for-aws-lambda – Template for publishing F# projects to AWS Lambda

New Releases

• Ionide F# for VS Code 2.12.0 released adding QuickFix support for types and records fields errors
• fsharp-mode (20161130.653)
• FSharp.Expandable.Compiler 0.6.14
• FSharp.MySqlQueryProvider 1.0.3
• Gjallarhorn 0.0.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #48