F# Weekly #50, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FsAdvent eBook is available now
• Azure Notebooks now support F#
• The road to WebSharper 4
• Inital help for beginners to do contributions to F# projects
• Paket extension is now available for Visual Studio for Mac
• F# is getting some great feedback on SO’s annual survey
• The week in .NET – On .NET on MyGet – FlexViewer – I Expect You To Die

Videos/Presentations

• Build your own chatbot therapist in F# – Evelina Gabasova
• Exploring StackOverflow – Evelina Gabasova
• Fake it to Make it. Dependency Management and Build Automation with Paket and Fake – Russ Cam
• Talking to Ody about F#, Akka, Architects, Property-based Testing –
  Scott Nimrod
• ALT.NET TALKS 2016.11
• .NET Standard – What’s new in 2.0 – Immo Landwerth
• .NET Standard – Checking Compatibilty – Immo Landwerth
• GPU Accelerated Deep Learning Wanted also for .NET

F# Advent Calendar

• A gentle introduction to programming networked services on linux – Henrik Feldt
• fck: Fake Construction Kit – Jérémie Chassaing
• X-Platform Development With Xamarin.Forms And F# – Phillip Trelford
• Using type providers to post slack messages – Rachel Reese
• Using F# on both the frontend and the backend – Daniel Bachler
• Asterisk Game in F# and WPF – Mark Heath
• Describing images in your favorite human language – Edgar Sánchez
• Distributed web applications in F# with WebSharper -András Jankó
• How F# delighted this newbie while experimenting with distributed systems -Hussam Abu-Libdeh
• RdKafka for F# Microservices – Jonathan Leaver
• Build Yourself a Robo-Advisor in F#. Part I : Domain Modelling – Doug Bruce
• myTrades.Analytics – a netstandard compatible .NET technical analysis library written in F# – Gergely Kalapos
• F# Advent – December 10, 2016 – Implementing a persistent hash map – Mårten Rånge
• Parsing text in F# – Erik Schierboom

Blogs

• FsReveal as a substitute for PowerPoint – Michał Niegrzybowski
• Validation in F# – Jon Nyman
• NeuralFish – Evolving AIs to Play TicTacToe – Jeremy Bellows
• Predicting future with F# and Azure Machine Learning – Jakub Jedryszek
• Building a Voice-Driven TV Remote – Part 1: Getting The Data – Greg Shackles
• Quick start a canopy test script – Flechner Romain
• Bringing F# records to C# – Alex Netkachov
• Writing C# build scripts with FAKE, OmniSharp and VS Code – Filip W
• Yubl’s road to Serverless architecture – Part 1 – Yan Cui
• Ransom Note problem in F# – Yan Cui
• O(n) solution to Multiply Others problem in F# – Yan Cui
• Anagram Substring Search problem in F# – Yan Cui
• Solutions for Advent of Code by Mark Heath:
  • Advent of Code Day 4–Room Checksums
  • Advent of Code Day 5–Door Passwords
  • Advent of Code Day 6–Decoding Messages
  • Advent of Code Day 7–Supernet Sequences
  • Advent of Code Day 8–Dot Matrix
  • Advent of Code–Decompression Length
  • Advent of Code Day 10–Following Instructions Eventually
• Solutions for Advent of Code by Yan Cui:
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 1
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 2
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 3
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 4
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 5
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 6
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 7
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 8
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 9
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 10

F# vNext

• Cool to see tail rec warning coming to F#
• New ideas:
  • Copy-and-update syntax for interfaces (decorator pattern)
  • [Discussion] More consistent and more simple syntax
• F# RFC:
  • F# RFC FS-1027 – Complete Optional and DefaultParameterValue Implementation
  • F# RFC FS-1028 – Implement Async.StartImmediateAsTask

Open source projects

• FSharp-Template-for-Aws-Lambda – Template for publishing F# projects to AWS Lambda
• vaughan – F# music library
• Suave.Minify – A minify WebPart for Suave
• caffe.clr.demo – Demo of how to use caffe via caffe.clr
• canopystarterkit – A starter kit for canopy. Get your automation started in a flash!

New Releases

• FSharp.Control.Reactive 3.5.0
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox 0.19
• Expecto.VisualStudio.TestAdapter 1.0.0-alpha003
• Logary v4.0.280
• FeldSpar 1.2.0.2 (docs)
• Gjallarhorn 0.0.6
• DotNetKit.FSharp 0.1.0

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

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