F# Weekly #51 – FSSF is now over 2000 members!

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FSharp Software Foundation is now over 2000 members strong
• New samples of using F# with ProtoActor, Kubernetes, and DockerCompose
• Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit is now available
• LUIS and the Azure Bot Service have just hit GA

Videos & Slides

• Devnology Podcast 050 – Scott Wlaschin

Blogs

• A fable of Web MIDI – Martin Gondermann
• An argument for functional programming – Devon Burriss‏
• Polymorphwhat? – Paweł Bańka
• Say hello to Avalonia – Evgeniy Andreev‏
• Happy Fezmas (or Getting started with Fez) – Karl-Johan Nilsson‏
• Current state of F# 4.x tooling and IDE ecosystem on December 2017 – Eriawan Kusumawardho
• Implementing the A in SAFE with the Azure CLI – Jeremy Abbott
• Some advice to F# beginners – Pierre Irrmann‏
• The soccer player best suited to be Santa Claus – Martin Andersen‏
• The Social Transf#ormation of Software Development –  Jamie Dixon
• Building Better Learning Resources – Ian Russell‏
• Christmas Trees in WPF, 2017 Update – Reed Copsey, Jr.
• Hyperoperation via F# – Cole Dutcher
• Let’s Get Jammin’ – Tom Prior‏
• Generic Programming Made Easy – Tamizh Vendan
• Building an Application’s Server with F# – Scott Nimrod
• Build A DeepLearning Algorithm From Scratch In F# 01 – Logistic Regression With A Neural Network Mindset – Mathieu Clerici
• Querying Last.fm Web API With F# – Bohdan Stupak
• Migration from old format of cs/fsproj to the new one – Michał Niegrzybowski
• F# with .NET Core 2.0.4 and SqlProvider – David Sinclair
• Notes from the San Francisco F# Dugnad – Mathias Brandewinder

F# vNext

Open source projects

• MakeYourOwnNeuralNetwork – Code associated with book “Make Your Own Neural Network”
• Giraffe.Tasks – A task computation expression to work natively with .NET’s Tasks from an F# application
• FSharp.CloudAgent – Allows running F# Agents in a distributed manner using Azure Service Bus
• CopyButler – Little Mac app to turn your clipboard into a stack
• MonoDevelop.MSBuildEditor – Improved MSBuild editing support

New Releases

• Gjallarhorn.Bindable 1.0.0-beta5
• Giraffe. Tasks 0.1.0-beta-010

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

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