Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Election process for the F# Software Foundation 2015 Board of Trustees has begun!
• New Paket manager has a bootstrapper that does fallback to NuGet.exe if fails to download paket.exe from GitHub. Don’t forget to upgrade your paket.bootstrapper.exe.
• If you want to create the post for F# MSDN Magazin – please contact Ted Neward
• Welcome to functional programming on Slack (join #fsharp channel).
• Krzysztof Cieslak announced FSharp.Atom (set of Atom plugins for F# development).
• Tomas Petricek presented prototype atom package created using FunScript

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Ferop with Will Smith (a library to use inline C from F#)
• Domain Modelling with the F# Type System – Scott Wlaschin
• Mobile App Development with Xamarin and F# –  Rachel Reese
• F# for the C# Developer – Mathias Brandewinder
• Nerd Dinner With Brains – Jamie Dixon

Blogs

• Why I like F# – Colin Bull
• Upcoming F# book and event deals – Tomas Petricek
• F# European Tour – Riccardo Terrell
• Announcing SourceLink.exe – Cameron Taggart
• Developing Functional Clients – Part I – Coding Curmudgeon
• Dealing with FSharp missing .sigdata and .optdata – Myria Technologies
• Surge 2.0 Released – Alex Hardwicke
• WebSharper forum enhancements – Adam Granicz
• Step-9 Adding Checkout – Tamizh Vendan
• Rewriting a logistic regression from C# to F# (part 1) – Mathias Brandewinder
• F# WPF and the XAML type provider – An exploration – Steven Pemberton

F# vNext News

• Participate in discussions:
  • Align VisualF# with Fsharp.Compiler.Service
  • Visual FSharp Tools repo does not build for Unix — We should make it work
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Normalize Collections API for Array2D Module

New releases

• Paket 0.38.0-alpha
• WebSharper 3.0 RC
• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 1.13.0
• R.NET.Community .FSharp 0.1.13
• FSharp.RDF 1.0.30
• Aardvark.Base.FSharp 1.1.12
• FSharp.Actor-logary 3.0.3
• Serilog.Extras.FSharp 2.0.0
• Destructurama.FSharp 1.0.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #12

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# community, please help F# 4 by hosting a Bug Bash Dojo at your local meetup!
• WebSharper 3.0 RC is released!
• Don’t miss three F# webcasts next Tuesday “Domain Modelling with the F# Type System“, “Mobile App Development with Xamarin and F#“, “F# for the C# Developer“.
• Welcome a new m-brace site.
• Code example for IBM Watson Developer Cloud API calls in F#.
• Interested in building F# support for Atom? Join the discussion.
• Welcome ID3TagProvider.
• MSBuild is open-source now.
• Using the MathDotNet Numerics MKL native provider in F# interactive & LINQPad  is much simpler in v3.6
• FAKE released with VB6 support.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• The F# Path to Data Scripting Nirvana –  Tomas Petricek, Isaac Abraham, Don Syme
• The Actor Model in F# and Akka.Net – Riccardo Terrell
• Tomas Petricek on F#, Type Providers, Functional and Reactive Programming
• Literate_programmin­g.With(“F#”­) – Tomas Petricek
• Look, No Mocks! Functional TDD with F# – Mark Seemann
• Proving Things About Biology – Samin Ishtiaq
• The Tools that Shape Us – Andrea Magnorsky
• FSCL (Homogeneous programming, scheduling and execution on heterogeneous platforms) – Gabriele Cocco/Ph.D. Thesis

Blogs

• Streamline Your Vector Algebra With F# – Marc Sigrist
• Aggregation of WCPSS Tax Records with School Assignment – Jamie Dixon
• A more functionally idiomatic approach to Akka.NET – Claus Sørensen
• Getting wooed by F# – Pieter Koornhof
• Seven ineffective coding habits many F# programmers don’t have – Yan Cui
• NancyFx |> F# – Tiny Blue Robots
• Step-8 Adding Shopping Cart – Tamizh Vendan
• Web APIs vs RPC – Ryan Riley
• How to use the HDF5 Type Provider – Robert Nielsen
• POSTing JSON to an F# Web API – Mark Seemann
• Observing the size of generated test data – Nikos Baxevanis
• .NET F# to crack top 10 programming languages
• Philly Code Camp – 2015
• Code Quotations en F# – Alex Casquete

F# vNext News

• If you want a Cup<‘t> – participate in Visual F# Tools March 2015 Bug bash
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Compound types

New releases

• F# Data 2.2.0
• Paket 0.35.6
• FAKE 3.24.0
• Math.NET Numerics for F# 3.6.0
• FSharp.RDF 1.0.23
• FSharp.Quotation.Disassembler 0.1.0.2
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.1
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.7.1
• Aardvark.Base.FSharp 1.1.8
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.0.5
• F# mode for Emacs(20150320.521)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #10

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# is at number 11 at Tiobe
• Microsoft/VisualFsharp and fsprojects/VisualFsharpPowerTools rooms on gitter.
• If you deploy production code in F#, please add a testimonial.
• If you use F# with Azure – please contact David Crook
• Tomas Petricek updated his fancy-domain web with books & trainings.
• FAKE  has basic support for Azure Cloud services
• FAKE 3.21 allows to run targets in parallel
• SEEK (Australia’s biggest job search site) is using FAKE.
• Tomas Petricek is working on new features for BigDeedle that let you treat partitioned big data source as a single series.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Compose Conference – Type Providers and Error Reflection in Idris – David Christiansen
• Concurrency in F# – Riccardo Scannicchio
• Machine Learning for Programming – Peter Norvig

Blogs

• Lambda Days and dev At Lodz – Andrea Magnorsky
• Fun Basic Preview – Phillip Trelford
• Master builders – Andrew Cherry
• Combining Wake County Real Estate Lookup with Wake County School Assignment – Jamie Dixon
• Back to School…Again – Eric Lobdell
• Programming Language Safety Algorithm – Steve Shogren
• Access Data Easier With F# Type Providers – Jonathan Wood
• F# Units of Measure – A Worked Example – Steven Pemberton
• Dependency injection – a functional way – Carsten König
• Interest in F# trending (slowly) upwards – IT World
• Custom attributes on F#’s Discriminated Union Cases
• Drawing some Turtles from a svg file generated by F# – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
• A functional choice – Marc Costello
• Mocking IoT Telemetry Data with Azure – David Crook
• My F# Journey – F# Learning Resources – Derek Comartin
• Which programming language should I learn in 2015? – Matthew Adams

F# vNext News

• If you want a Cup<‘t> – participate in Visual F# Tools March 2015 Bug bash
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Composite types
  • Lazy properties
  • Please make correct type casting for bigint in F#
  • Allow nested Computation Expression for writing Builder Like DSLs

New releases

• Paket 0.35.0
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.0
• FSharp.Quotations.Evaluator 1.0.6
• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack 1.1.3.62
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.6.2
• Chessie 0.0.23
• Aardvark.Base.FSharp 1.1.7
• Yaaf.FSharp.Helper 0.1.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #10

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# interactive in CloudSharper now properly has UTF8 input encoding
• “F12 Navigate to Source” implemented in Visual F# Power Tools v 1.8. Any feature suggestion at Visual F# Power Tools is up-for-grabs. Feel free to send PRs if you would like to implement any.
• FsReveal now uses FsReveal for its own docs
• F# piping operators in prelude.hs (Haskell)
• F# friend in Christchurch, New Zealand.
• Mathias Brandewinder added new Markov Bot dojo.
• QuantAlea is cross platform now.
• Run your C# and F# LINQ queries on the GPU with GpuLinq, from the amazing guys at Nessos consultancy
• Professional GPU development for .NET just released check it out on NuGet.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Mathias Brandewinder on F# for Data Science
• Compose Conference – The F# Path to Relaxation – Don Syme
• FunScript with Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• F# – Why you should give an F – Daniel Chambers
• F# for the C# developer with Mathias Brandewinder

Blogs

• Library patterns: Why frameworks are evil –  Tomas Petricek
• An Explanation of Type Inference for ML/Haskell – Danny Gratzer
• Understanding Monoids using F# – Carsten König
• Build all the things! with FAKE – Jonathan Peppers
• 6 reasons to love F# – Terje Tyldum
• My F# Journey – What I’ve learned so far – Derek Comartin
• Step-7 Validation and Error Handling Using ROP – Tamizh Vendan
• FCell 3.0 and Updates – Phil Brooks

F# vNext News

• Latest F# preview for VS CTP6 (Including script debugging).
• We built it together, let’s test it together. The F# 4.0 bug bash, please spare some time to try it out.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Cartesian product function for collections
  • modules to extend a DU
  • Please make a correct ‘modulus’ for F#

New releases

• Paket 0.31.10
• Foq 1.7
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.86
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.6.1
• FSharp.Formatting 2.7.5
• CloudSharper 0.9.29
• Aardvark.Base.FSharp 1.1.6
• Serilog.Extras.FSharp 1.4.204

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #9

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# eXchange 2015 – the conference on F# is coming soon.
• Understanding .NET 2015
• Chessie (railway-oriented programming to .NET) is announced.
• ProjectScaffold is using Paket to produce NuGet packages.
• WebSharper 3.0-alpha for Xamarin Studio / MonoDevelop is now available!
• F# Vienna Meetup was announced.
• New BMA release with refreshed design and F# powered back-end
• FCell 3.0 is now available.
• FSharpx.Async and FSharpx.Reflection are extracted from Fsharpx.
• Pierre Irrmann has an alpha version of a Chess type provider!
• Small Unity3d F# game in web-player.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• OneNet: High Performance Distributed Functional Computing Platform – Jin Li
• Context-aware programming languages – Tomas Petricek
• Introducing Ferlang(F# to Erlang compiler)! – Luke Sandell
• WebSharper 101: type safe web apps in F# – Anton Tayanovskyy
• Improve the signal, reduce the noise bring F# to the table – Tomasz Jaskula (code)
• Functional Programming in C# and F# – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Yak Shaving F# Style – Aaron Powell
• F# Cancer Research – Evelina Gabasova
• F# News – February 2015 – Geoffrey Huntley

Blogs

• Introducing – The Mixin Type Provider – Ross McKinlay
• Warning, Conferences ahead! – Yan Cui
• Testing with F# – Mikael Lundin
• Domain Language: The Playthrough Bonus – Jef Claes
• Parsing Wake County School System Attendance Assignment Site With F# – Jamie Dixon
• F# and Named-Pipes – Riccardo Terrell
• F# Unity3D Async Workflow – Ryan Kilkenny
• An Actor model example with Akka.NET – Claus Sørensen
• Making sense of Active Pattern in F# – Michael Coxeter
• FAKE: Running xUnit Tests with FAKE without knowing a tiny bit of F# – SoftFluent
• Programming Challenges with functional programming in F#: Article #1 the Collatz conjecture – Buddy James
• Fibonacci Variations, Part 1: A Library-Based Infinite Sequence – Marc Sigrist

F# vNext News

• Visual F# Tools March 2015 Bug bash.
• Try out the latest F# preview: “Visual FSharp 4.0 Preview 02-24-2015“
• Fix bugs or add features?
• Help wanted!!! F# bugs: if it has a red “Bug”, help us by investigating, discussing, reporting and fixing.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • make match phrases passable as an argument value
  • record based improve type inference bug

New releases

• Paket 0.31.6
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.85
• Suave.IO 0.25
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.11
• WebSharper-3.0.36-alpha
• Serilog.Extras.FSharp 1.4.196
• LM.NET for F# 1.7.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #8

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• O’Reilly webcasts: “F# for the C# Developer“, “Domain Modelling with the F# Type System” & “Mobile App Development with Xamarin and F#“
• Compiler Services: Notes on FSharp.Core.dll
• Inspired by Spark, Microsoft are building OneNet, a distributed functional programming platform based on F#
• MatrixMarket and its file formats look like a good opportunity for another FSharp.Data type provider.
• Akka.NET bootcamp is LIVE! Go sign up and get started building with the actor model now.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Where No Type Has Gone Before – Ross McKinlay
• Building Reactive Services using Functional Programming – Rachel Reese
• Graph Databases for Modeling Game Economies, Actors and DSLs with F# – Yan Cui
• Machine learning from disaster – GL.Net 2015 – Phillip Trelford
• F# – Aggelos Biboudis

Blogs

• Enterprise Tic-Tac-Toe Part 2: In which I throw away my first design and use capabilities instead – Scott Wlaschin
• F# Deep Dives Review and Author Q&A – Tomas Petricek
• My step-by-step guide to starting the early preview of MBrace cluster on Azure using Brisk Engine – Don Syme
• Throttling the Level of Concurrency in F# – Michael Newton
• Parsing Wake County Tax Site With F# – Jamie Dixon
• Deploying F# Web Job to Azure – David Crook
• Packaging and Deploying #Azure WebJobs with FAKE
• Adding support for MBrace, F# and .NET on Brisk – Isaac Abraham
• Updated: “Retrieving GitHub download counts” – Steffen Forkmann
• Exploring F# – tilovell09
• FsCheck generators and the ‘choose’ function – Nikos Baxevanis
• Reshaping arrays in .NET – Natallie Baikevich
• First impressions with DiffSharp, an F# autodiff library – Mathias Brandewinder
• Type providers – Andrea Magnorsky

F# vNext News

• Lincoln Atkinson presented FSI debugging without breakpoints.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • An attribute enforcing usage (in F# code) of named parameters at callsite
  • Support Multiple Properties in StructuredFormatDisplayAttribute
  • Provide a concise and performant item+index for loop (“with index”)

New releases

• Paket 0.30.0
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.10
• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack 1.1.3.60
• CloudSharper 0.9.28
• EventStore.Client F# API
• Serilog.Extras.FSharp 1.4.182
• FSharp.Actor-logary 3.0.1
• Newtonsoft.Json.FSharp 3.1.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #7

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New F# meetups in Johannesburg­, South Africa & Cambridge.
• FSharp.InteropServices.Dynamic was presented.
• Akka.NET F# API
• Alpha version of a Chess type provider is out.
• Ross McKinlay works on new generation type provider.
• Now, F# works on Raspberry Pi 2!
• Contact Scott Hanselman to propose talks for @dotnetconf a Microsoft-run online/virtual conference for .NET
• Jet.com’s Valuation Nears $600 Million Before Launch (F# start-up)

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• F# Show 3: Jet – Using F# to Revolutionize Ecommerce with Rachel Reese
• On Meta Programming and Code Generation in F# – Pouya Larjani

Blogs

• Blast from the past: Don Syme with some .NET/C# Generics History & Photos From Feb 1999
• Simplifying F# Type Provider Development – Dave Fancher
• Enterprise Tic-Tac-Toe – Scott Wlaschin
• Implementing Interfaces In F# Using Object Expressions – Jonathan Woo
• Simplifying State with Async (with XNA/WPF examples) – Neil Danson
• Upcoming in WebSharper 3.0: serving REST APIs, easy as pie!
• On TDD and chiseling – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
• Diamond mirrors – Einar W. Høst
• hekate — functional graphs for f# – Andrew Cherry
• aether — breaking changes – Andrew Cherry
• F# vs C# – what is this programming key change all about? – Webigence
• Generating C# code using F# – Maxim Kovtun
• Using DBSCAN for fun and (mostly) profit in Elite:Dangerous – Mark Watts
• Tips for the Websharper Novice – Frank Joppe
• F# First look at Continuation Passing Style(CPS) – Michael Coxeter
• Type system for the win: phantom types – Carsten König
• Functional event-sourcing – let’s playback with fun – Carsten König
• Functional event-sourcing – compose – Carsten König
• Descubriendo F# – David Osteso
• Post invitado: Programación funcional, un nuevo enfoque – esmsdn

F# vNext News

• Check out the latest FSharp 4.0 Preview 02-11-2015.
• Check out F# FSI debugging support from Lincoln Atkinson: comment, review and try it out (attach-debugger-to-F#-interactive in Visual F# Tools).
• dotnet/coreclr has a gitter chatroom, any F# developers interested in the coreclr might want to check it out.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Release the F# Visual Studio plugin code
  • Allow type providers to affect update-check
  • Make the single-line use of [<Literal>] consistent
  • Include an Option workflow in the std. lib
  • Add more persistent collections
  • Utilise CLR union types for discriminated unions
  • Add ‘except’ function to core collection modules
  • Add Haskell-style operator sections

New releases

• Paket 0.27.5
• WebSharper.3.0.26-alpha
• CloudSharper 0.9.27
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.9
• Akka.FSharp 0.8.0
• fszmq 4.0.8
• FSharp.Control.Reactive 3.1.1
• EventStore.Client.FSharp 3.2.1
• Logary 2.5.1
• OpenNLP.NET 1.6-rc2
• Stanford.NLP.NET 3.5.1
• Stanford.NLP.Parser.Fsharp 0.0.10

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #6

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# at 21 row of Gartner Programming Language Index for 2014
• United Nations uses F#
• CoreCLR is now on GitHub!
• Are you working with F# & Machine Learning, or curious about it? Come and chat on the F# data science forum.
• Paket now has more pull requests than NuGet. It’s still moving really fast.
• Update from Fsharp.Formatting
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting
• A single F# script to wget paket.exe, get some F# packages and start a web server. Uses SuaveIO and FSharp.Data.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• F# The Pit of Success – Isaac Abraham
• The F# Way To Relaxation – Don Syme
• ILX: Extending the .NET Common IL for Functional Language Interoperability – Don Syme
• Stop Writing Classes – Jack Diederich

Blogs

• Record Types and Serialization -> F# to C# – Jamie Dixon
• Library patterns: Multiple levels of abstraction – Tomas Petricek
• F#, an Ideal Language For Writing .NET Unit Tests – Marc Sigrist
• Writing a F# Type Provider – Aaron Powell
• 3 reasons why the C# type system is broken, and how F# improves the situation – André Slupik
• F# vs C# – what is this programming key change all about? – Webigence
• F# Constructed Types, Interfaces and polymorphic dispatch – Michael Coxeter
• Persistent Data Structures – Michael Newton
• F# discriminated unions – Michael Coxeter
• Docker here docker there docker everywhere – Getting started with docker in .NET with F# –  Michal Franc
• Making XLinq Usable from F# – Luke Sandell
• FsCheck setup in F# – Nikos Baxevanis
• F# Library and FSharp.Core – Kyle Sonaty
• Step-6 Authentication Using Owin Authentication Middleware and ASP.NET Identity – Tamizh Vendan
• Five interesting facts about Microsoft F#
• Are static typing and functional programming winning? – Yevgeniy Brikman

F# vNext News

• Recently accepted PRs:
  • Please, start watching visualfsharp repository.
• Recently proposed RPs:
  • Please, start watching visualfsharp repository.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • provide reflected definitions by default
  • Add a symbol for FSI to check whether it’s in 64 bit or 32 bit
  • Add a “Scripting” module to FSharp.Core.dll, including a wget function

New releases

• Paket 0.27.5
• WebSharper 3.0.15-alpha.
• FSharp.Formatting 2.7.4
• FSharp.Configuration 0.4.10
• Stacks.FSharp 1.3.4
• Serilog.Extras.FSharp 1.4.168

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #5