Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Follow @fsharpJobs if you are interested in open F# positions.
• Please vote on issues to guide priorities in core F# compiler/library fixes.
• Visual F# PowerTools v1.1.0 is out with implement interface, record stub generation and major improvements.
• Deedle v1.0 is released!
• Stanford.NLP.Fsharp was re-launched.
• The first pull request for an F# compiler optimization was accepted via the Visual F# repo, congrats to Will Smith.
• WebSharper Binding for Leaflet is released.
• FAKE.Deploy just got an authentication.
• Edgar Sánchez shared one more site for compiling and running F# – www.compileonline.com
• F# helps construction firm bring Jean Nouvel design for Louvre Abu Dhabi to life. Great potential for F# in CAD.
• Jon Harrop shared notes from his lectures.

Video/Presentations

• “FAKE (F# Make) & Automation” by Sergey Tihon.
• “C# light” by Scott Wlaschin.
• “F# and Reactive Programming for iOS” by Brad Pillow.
• “Xamarin.iOS/android+F#” by moonmile.

Blogs

• Howard Mansell posted “Deedle v1.0 Release!“
• Visual FSharp Team published “FSharp.Data.SqlClient: Seamlessly integrating T-SQL and F# in the same code [Guest Post]“.
• Tomas Petricek wrote “Welcome fsharpWorks & upcoming F# events“.
• Daniel Chambers blogged “FSharp.Azure 1.0 – with support for option types“.
• Johan Sivertsen asked about “SqlDataConnection and wasted time” and have got help.
• Jamie Dixon blogged “Association Rule Learning Via F# (Part 2)“.
• James Conway posted “F# – Discount Code for C# Developers“.
• QuantLabs published “F Sharp with DOTNET could be gaining ground in many investment banks“.
• Mauricio Scheffer wrote about “Mapping JSON to objects with Fleece“.
• Mikael Helldén wrote “F# cruise to Vaxholm“.
• Mike Harris posted “Roman Numerals and FsCheck“.
• Steffen Forkmann announced “Changes in the FAKE contribution workflow“.
• TJ Maynes blogged “Setting Up F# In Emacs“.
• Matt Adereth posted “Counting Stars on GitHub“.
• Sacha Barber wrote about:
  • F#29 : Interop
  • F#30 : Type Providers

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #20

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Functional Works site is alive.
• Summer of F# in Paris! Early bird registration for Paris ’14 is open.
• CloudSharper 0.9.10.2 is released: Mono support, VS-compatible solutions, NuGet packages and more!
• Visual F# accepted pull requests ‘make possible to set breakpoint inside quotation‘ and ‘performance improvement for seq.windowed‘.
• F# support is now included by default in Xamarin Studio, no external add-ins are required.
• Ross McKinlay presented a transactional ETL procedure from Excel to SQL server, using only the SqlProvider!
• New F# User Groups map was presented.
• Check FsBlog (Blog aware, static site generation using F#) if you missed it.
• Try FsLab Notebook right now and share you thoughts.
• Santa Monica F# User Group was presented.
• Andre Pemmelaar showed F# repo popularity by region.
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.48 is released.
• New Visual F# PowerTools feature was presented: Record stub generation.
• FsUno (Event sourcing implementation sample in F#) was presented.
• Jb Evain shared a sample of F# Active Patterns for Roslyn’s C#’ AST.

Video/Presentations

• Tomáš Petříček: Data science with F#.
• “F#’s Type Providers: The future of meta-programming in .NET” by Robert Pickering.
• “F# Data: Accessing WorldBank data” by Tomas Petricek.
• “F# Data: Making structured data first class citizens” by Tomas Petricek

Blogs

• Jamie Dixon posted “Association Rule Learning Via F# (Part 1)“.
• Evelina Gabasova blogged “Who’s the most central? F# network on Twitter“.
• Tomas Petricek wrote about “Stateful computations in F# with update monads“.
• James Conway posted “Will F# ever be a first class citizen?“.
• Mauricio Scheffer wrote about “Mapping objects to JSON with Fleece“.
• Adam Granicz blogged “Program F# with CloudSharper everywhere“.
• Ross McKinlay posted “CRUD Operations and Experimental ODBC support in the SQLProvider“.
• Richard Dalton wrote “Why I Study Functional Programming“.
• Mike Harris blogged “Property Based Testing with FsCheck“.
• Sacha Barber wrote about:
  • F#27 : Asynchronous Workflows
  • F# 28 : Integrating With Task Parallel Library

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #19

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual F# PowerTools: 3 months, 15 contributors, 700 commits and 5.6k downloads. It has been an amazing journey!
• NET Framework 4.5.2 was announced.
• Steffen Forkmann’s pull requests to Visual F# were accepted (Removing #IF SILVERLIGHT from the compiler : 1, 2).
• Dave Thomas was awarded an F# Bad Ass award for his work on F#!
• F# Data 2.0.8 is released with several bug fixes.
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient v1.2.21 was released.
• FsAttoparsec 0.2.0 was released.
• Looks like Avro could work well with an F# type provider.
• F# Windows Service project template was added to FSharp Community Templates.
• MITIE-Dot-Net (A Nice .NET Wrapper for the MITIE Information Extraction Library) was presented.
• Fslog (A simple yet powerful F# logging framework) was presented.
• New beta of ReportGenerator  for code coverage reports has better F# support.
• MEF 2 was released.
• Single page with all .NET SDKs was presented.
• Symas LMDB  is new type-provider candidate.

Video/Presentations

• Cross-platform mobile with F# & Xamarin with Rachel Reese.
• Creating Type Providers: Hands On with Michael Newton
• AdditionTypeProvider by Juan M Gómez.
• Top 10 algorithms in data mining.

Blogs

• Jamie Dixon posted “Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysis Using F#“.
• Daniel Chambers blogged “Announcing FSharp.Azure – An Idiomatic F# Azure Storage API“.
• Abdul Muhit shared “The slow adoption of Functional Programming in banks“.
• Michael Newton wrote  “Type Safe Printf via Type Providers“.
• Kaveh Shahbazian presented “A simple and straight forward Single File Windows Service template for F#“.
• Daniel Chambers posted “Modifying Azure Table Storage Data using FSharp.Azure“.
• Skills Matter published “Guest Post: The F#unctional Londoners User Group“.
• Functional Works presented “Programming Passion…“.
• Michael Newton blogged “Functionally SOLID 2“.
• Isaac Abraham “Azure Storage Type Provider re-released“.
• Richard Dalton finished his “Learning to think Functionally” series with post “Learning To Think Functionally : Readability“.
• Daniel Chambers blogged “Querying Azure Table Storage Data using FSharp.Azure“.
• Andrea Magnorsky posted “Why F sharp and functional programming in general.“.
• Sacha Barber wrote about:
  • F#24 : Reflection
  • F#25 : Active Patterns
  • F#26 : Reactive Programming
• masuda posted “F # + Xamarin.iOS + Xamarin Studio“

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #18

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Let’s get F# a new logo! Project is underway. Help us by giving.
• MyGet build services support F# from now!
• Evelina Gabasova presented F# Data Toolbox (A library for various data access APIs based on FSharp.Data) and the first package with Twitter type provider. Any suggestions for other data source-specific APIs?
• All Stanford.NLP .NET packages were updated on NuGet to support latest IKVM.NET.
• Json.NET 6.0.3 has better F# support!
• Http.fs is now at v1.0.0!
• Check out “F# Programming” wikibook.
• Do you have academic publications which use, extend or are influenced by F#? Please add them to “Publications related to F#” section of fsharp.org.
• Read reddit discussions:
  • Where are the F# jobs?
  • Functional Programming and Game Development? It can be done!
• Do not miss Special Xamarin licenses for OSS contributors: “for developing, testing, and maintaining compatibility”.
• QuantAlea submitted an open source pull request to allow debugging information in GPU-code quotations.
• Bryan Edds showed fpworks – Repository hosting the open-source game OmniBlade, and related projects. Bryan is looking for a new project to use his F# NuGameEngine for! If you/your company have interest & resources, let him know!
• Ross McKinlay showed InteractiveProvider – A type provider abstraction for all your gaming needs.
• Victor Baybekov showed Fredis – Dead simple API for POCOs persistence, cache + Redis based distributed actors.

Video/Presentations

• “F#, Canopy and 2048” by Mathias Brandewinder.
• “Some F# for the Erlang programmer” by Don Syme.
• OddsTypeProvider by Juan M Gómez.
• Type Provider by Michael Newton.

Blogs

• Mark Michaelis posted “A C# 6.0 Language Preview“.
• Ronnie Holm blogged “Using F# and FAKE to build a SharePoint provider-hosted app“.
• Frank Meola posted:
  • Sculpt Your Code In a REPL – Part One
  • Sculpt Your Code In a REPL – Part Two
  • Sculpt Your Code In a REPL – Part Three
• Liam McLennan wrote “PostgresDoc“.
• Lincoln Atkinson blogged “F# extension methods in Roslyn“.
• Ross McKinlay posted “BASIC’s 50th Anniversary … and more crazy F# type providers!“.
• Osman Öztürk published “Functional Programming with F#“.
• Steve Shogren wrote “Pattern Matching – Make the Compiler Work for You“.
• Jamie Dixon published “Microsoft Language Stack Analogy“.
• minfuk posted “Seq.unfold & Regex“.
• Check out Korporal Kernel’s blog and his Lexical Analysis With F# series.
• Gabriele Cocco posted:
  • Why you WANT to use UseHostPointer instead of AllocHostPointer
  • An insight on Buffer Pool Manager
• Sacha Barber wrote about:
  • F#21 : Events
  • F#22 : Abstract classes / Overriding Methods / Implementing Interfaces
  • F#23 : Generics
• Paco Nathan posted “Just Enough Math“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #17

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual F# PowerTools v1.0.0 is released with Find All References, various improvements and bug fixes.
• F* (a dependently-typed variant of F# for program verification) is re-released under Apache 2.0.
• Apiary Provider is finally released.
• FAKE supports canopy tests!
• FSharp.Data has a nice new animated homepage.
• Would you like to run an F# coding dojo? Ready-to-use information and resources for F# meetups.
• FSCL(Framework for OpenCL programming, scheduling and execution abstraction on heterogeneous platforms in F#) is now part of FSharp Community Project.
• fszmq v4.0.5 is released.
• Portland F# User Group was introduced.
• F# is in the top of languages in Hello World Open.
• Blaise Vignon shared his 2048 solver in F#.
• Do you use Amazon DynamoDB from F#? DynamoDB.SQL DSL lets you do SQL-like querying and scanning.
• Check out WebSharper Kendo UI samples.
• Beautiful chapter on “Social network analysis” with a cool F# theme by Evelina Gabasova is now available in F# Deep Dives!

Video/Presentations

• F# With Bryan Hunter.
• “Some F# for the Erlang programmer” by Don Syme.
• “How to design a language integrated compiler with LLVM” byXiang Zhang and Aaron Brewbaker.
• ““Mostly functional” programming does not work.” by Erik Meijer.

Blogs

• Scott Wlaschin blogged “Twenty six low-risk, incremental ways to use F# at work, without affecting mission critical code“.
  • Using F# for development and devops scripts
  • Using F# for testing
  • Using F# for database related tasks
  • Other interesting ways of using F# at work
• Don Syme blogged “Latest Developments in General Purpose GPU Programming with F#“.
• Sergey Tihon shared “Where to practice your F# with fun?“.
• Daniel Mohl posted “F# Support for Web Projects“.
• Bjørn Einar Bjartnes shared “More street-fighting in F#“.
• Phil Brooks blogged “Mortality Projection Functions“.
• Gab_km wrote “Add an element into a sequence“.
• Jamie Dixon posted “F# and List manipulations“.
• Andrea Magnorsky blogged “F# scripting for a component based game engine“.
• James D’Angelo shared “Introducing the new Portland F# Meetup Group!“.
• Jorge Tavares posted “Simple Parallel Array Filtering in F#“.
• Functional Works published “Functional Rocks in London Start-ups!“.
• Michał Łusiak wrote “Speaking – “WTF# and why should you care” at get.net conference in Łódź“.
• Ramón Soto Mathiesen blogged “FSharp.ProjectScaffold (initial) rename script“.
• Daniel Fabian posted “Partial Lenses in F#“.
• Taumuon Jabuka wrote about  “Monte Carlo pricing of Exotic Options in F#“.
• James Crowley blogged “Code coverage using dotCover and F# make“.
• Kunjan Dalal published “Thanks to wonderful community“.
• Phil Trelford posted “Date Types“.
• Kurt Schelfthout published “NDepend to analyze F# code“.
• Karlkim Suwanmongkol blogged “Using F# and R Provider with Kaggle’s Facial Keypoints Detection“.
• Jérémie Chassaing posted “Monoidal Event Sourcing Examples“.
• David Tchepak wrote about “Some regex help from the F# compiler“.
• Natallie Baikevich blogged “Abs Puzzle“.
• Steffen Forkmann posted “FAKE 2.14.0 released – OpenCover edition“.
• Mathias Brandewinder published “Creating maps using R, Deedle and F# type providers“.
• Andreas Ågren wrote “Another Porter Stemmer in F#“.
• masuda published “How to make a WPF application in F#“.
• Sacha Barber wrote about:
  • F#18 : Flow Control
  • F#19 : Exceptions
  • F#20 : Creating Types / Adding Members

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #16

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual F# Power Tools v0.6.0 was released with folder organization support, solution-wide renaming and enhanced syntax coloring.
• Please suggest new ideas for Visual F# Power Tools and vote for the existing ones.
• Nessos.Vagrant (A library that facilitates the distribution of code for the .NET framework) was presented.
• iFSharp Notebook v2.0-beta was released (an F# profile for iPython Notebook). Built-in Nuget support and more!
• FAKE supports OpenCover from now.
• Akka.NET Distributed Actor Framework – F# API v0.5.0 was released.
• FSock (simple C#/F# API for communicating async socket clients and servers) was presented.
• New F# meetup in Los Angeles area is starting next week.
• FsAttoparsec v0.1.0 (A port of Bryan O’Sullivan’s attoparsec from Haskell to F#) was released.
• “The benefits of functional programming in F# have given us a great advantage over our slow moving competitors.” by Bayard Rock.
• Find All References coming to the Visual F# Power Tools (completed).
• Tore Green shared source code of “Game of 2048” in F#.
• First stats from Google Code Jam 2014: there are some awesome guys who did it using F#.
• Want to have fun building an AI bot in F#? There is still one day to enter the HelloWorldOpen competition!

Video/Presentations

• “All Your Types Are Belong to Us!” by Phil Trelford.
• Porting Quake III to F#: A Journey to Functional Programming with Will Smith.
• “Property-based testing using FsCheck for F# and C#” by Akim Boyko (samples).
• “The F# Asynchronous Programming Model” by Don Syme, Tomas Petricek, Dmitry Lomov.
• “Cryptographically Verified Design and Implementation of a Distributed Key Manager” by Tolga Acar,Cedric Fournet, Dan Shumow.

Blogs

• Scott Hanselman posted “Open Source is a thankless job. We do it anyway.“.
• Jamie Dixon blogged “F# and the Open/Closed Principle“.
• Ross McKinlay wrote “Solving Puzzle Quest with F# Part 1“.
• Liam McLennan posted “State Machines in F# and C#“.
• Danny Tuppeny blogged “Is F# Ready for Production?“.
• Tim Jones published “Writing a MiniC-to-MSIL compiler in F# – Part 1 – Defining the abstract syntax tree“.
• Lawrence Woodman wrote “Beware of Immutable Lists for F# Parallel Processing“.
• Krzysztof Cieslak posted “F# Type Intoduction“.
• Sacha Barber wrote about:
  • F#15: Code Organization (Modules / Files/ Types)
  • F#16 : Understanding Signatures
  • F#17 : Mutable / Ref Cells
• Sergey Tihon posted “Notes from .NET Meetup #4 & F# ad“.
• “The rise of functional programming in Banks” by Abdul Muhit.
• HSG published “F# – Marching Towards Top 10 Programming Languages“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #15