Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# TV Gazette 2nd edition is out!
• Want to tell about your project to the whole world on Channel 9? Just tell about it to Seth Juarez.
• Spread the word! On Mar 4 is fsharpConf, a free worldwide online conference for F# and related technologies
• Announced: Columbus F# User Group
• The week in .NET – 1/25/2016
• New MEAP book “Reactive Applications with Akka.NET” from Anthony Brown
• Copenhagen University now teaches F# (Danish only)
• Average F# developer salary up 20% since same period last year
• Be a 3D Hero with UrhoSharp
• Microsoft Moves Its CNTK Machine Learning Toolkit To GitHub And MIT License

Videos/Presentations

• Continuously writing an iPhone app, on an iPad Pro, using F# – Frank Krueger
• Slack Type Provider – Flechner Romain

Blogs

• Star Wars social networks: The Force Awakens – Evelina Gabasova
• Interview with Henrik Feldt on Suave 1.0 – InfoQ / Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Building a random arts bot in F# – Yan Cui
• Microservices & Messaging – Jet / Krishna Vangapandu
• FizzBuzz and the Roman Numeral Kata are the Same Thing! – Mike Harris
• Exercises in Programming Style–Bulletin Board – Yan Cui
• (Co)Monoids for composable resource management in fsharp – Hodza Nassredin
• Learn how to Program – Counting Odd and Even Numbers – MoreCodes
• Project Euler — Problem 82 Solution – Yan Cui
• Less Code and Less Bugs : with Functional Programming languages – bos
• Interactive Coding with C# and F# REPLs (ScriptCS or the Visual Studio Interactive Window) – Scott Hanselman
• Implementing ValueConverters in F# – Scott Nimrod
• External JS library with WebSharper in F# – Kimserey Lam

Ernest Pazera coding corner

• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 22
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 23
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 24
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Finale
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 1

F# vNext News 

• Board Meeting – Dec 14th, 2015
• `dotnet new` now knows F#
• How to take forward the prototype of a Visual F# editor based on Roslyn
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Exclude mutable fields from GetHashCode in record types
  • Single-use / inline discriminated unions
  • Allow Attributes to follow the `member` keyword
  • remove Seq.rev from FSharp.Core again

Open source projects

• MITIE-Dot-Net – A Nice .NET Wrapper for the MITIE Information Extraction Library
• tjofgd-project1 – The Joy of Functional GameDev – Project #1
• BS – Implementation of the BS language as created by Mark Rendle at BuildStuff.lt 2014. Refer to this repo for information and canonical list of language features
• FsAkkaWeb – POC of using Akka + F# on the web with ASP.NET MVC5
• fsuno – Event sourcing implementation sample in F#

New Releases

• FSharp.Data.TypeProviders 5.0.0.2
• FSharp.Formatting 2.13.5
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 2.0.0.3
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 2.0.0.3
• FsReveal 1.1.2
• Trustpilot.FSharp.Flow 0.4.2
• fsharp-mode (20160126.745)
• Logary 3.6.1
• FAKE 4.17 with big internal changes
• Suave v1.1 with an automatically expanding buffer manager
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Sas 0.13
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Twitter 0.13

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #4

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Save the date March 4th 2016 for the live streaming of the first year of fsharpConf, a free virtual event featuring world-class F# experts across the globe
• Jet.com case-study
• ASP.NET 5 is dead – Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0
• Paket now has syntax coloring (powered by FSharp.Formatting)
• F# Helpers for VSTS (F# scripting support for VSTeam, plus support for Fake and Paket)
• Xamarin Studio 6.0 preview with cool F# Enhancements and F# Shared Projects!!!
• The week in .NET – 1/19/2016
• Community for F# is looking for speakers and code reviewers for upcoming c4fsharp hangouts. Anyone interested or have suggestions of topics / speakers?

Videos/Presentations

• On .NET 1/21/2016 – Don Syme on F#
• Developer On Fire: Episode 086 – Tomas Petricek – Remeber Curiosity

Blogs

• Running F# on Microsoft Azure – Isaac Abraham
• Project Euler — Problem 102 Solution – Yan Cui
• MapFold OR Set Phasers to Fun – Mike Harris
• EmParsec Embedded Parser Library – Michael Newton
• Using F# on Linux – Jonathan Curran
• Chart-tastic F# Goodness – Bear & Hammer
• .NET: A look through F# lenses – Jacqueline Homan
• Quick setup with Paket and .fsx scripts – Kimserey Lam
• Slides from my talk at MF#K – Kristian Schmidt
• F# and C# being bros –  Adam Guest
• Functional Hangul Parser in F# – Jun-young Bang
• Exercises in Programming Style–Hollywood – Yan Cui
• About Cassandra on Docker with F# – @lenadroid
• Continuous delivery with FAKE, Paket and TeamCity – Tomasz Heimowski

Ernest Pazera coding corner

• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 6
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 7
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 LOST EPISODE 8
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 9
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 10
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 11
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 12
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 13
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 14
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 15-19
• The Joy of Functional GameDev with Ernest Pazera Episode 20

F# vNext News 

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Add filtermap to the standard library

Open source projects

• user-ops – Exira.Users is an event sourced microservice to manage users
• Trustpilot.FSharp.Flow – A library for building contract based execution flows
• Neo4j.FSharp – F# client library for the Neo4j graph database
• Neo4jTypeProvider – An F# type provider for Neo4j
• IoX – The Internet of everything interconnection runtime
• servicefabricsuavestateful – Sample of stateful and stateless Service Fabric services with Suave
• AkkaActorModel – Akka.NET and MailboxProcessor Code Samples
• FSharp.Interactive.Intellisense – Intellisense support for Visual Studio F# interactive

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.CodeDom 0.9.4
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.5.2
• Akka.FSharp 1.0.6
• FSharp.Formatting 2.13.4
• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack 1.1.3.88
• Unquote 3.1.1 released adding / fixing support for NUnit 3
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.10
• SwaggerProvider 0.3.4
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.12.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #2#3

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from past weeks:

News

• Suave v1.0 has been released!
• Visual F# Power Tools 2.3.0 with Peek Definition (Alt + F12) and bug fixes
• The week in .NET – 1/5/2016 & 1/12/2016
• ASP.NET 5 RC 2 supports F#
• codingame.com supports F#
• Do you want to get better at F#? Do you know a ‘foreign’ language? If so, consider contributing to Numsense.
• ionide-webview released! In-editor preview of FsReveal, FsLab or any other web projects
• FAKE supports NUnit 3!
• Follow @fsharpJobs if you are interested in open F# positions.
• F# Compiler Technical Overview
• Welcome two new F# twitter bots World Bank Facts & Spirograph Robobot
• Learn F# on edX Online
• Argu has been moved to fsprojects
• Join the development of PaketManager v3
• MBrace: Local Cloud Workflows
• FAKE.GitBook v0.1.0 is released
• Choosing the Right .NET For You on the Server
• Tamizh Vendan‏ updated all his Suave blog posts to Suave v1.0
• F# and Ionide are used on functional programming class at McGill University
• Project Rider was announced – A C# IDE written in Kotlin

Videos/Presentations

• .NET Rocks: Functional Microservices with Rachel Reese
• Building Concurrent, Fault Tolerant, Scalable Applications in F# using Akka.Net – Riccardo Terrell
• Tomáš Petříček: Taking your craft seriously with F#
• A Developer’s journey from OO to Functional – Reid Evans
• Canopy F# testing site written in Suave.io – Chris Holt
• Tackle UI with Reactive DOM in F# and WebSharper – Anton Tayanovskyy
• Spice up your website with Machine Learning! – Evelina Gabasova
• Building stuff that works with F# – Tomas Petricek
• Функциональное программирование на F# в обработке больших данных и машинном обучении – Дмитрий Сошников
• Dependent Types and Multi-Monadic Effects in F*

Blogs

• Designing with Capabilities – Scott Wlaschin
• Freeing your Azure data with F# Type Providers – Isaac Abraham
• Interlude 1: Doing Something Arguably Useful With a Converter Graph – Alexey Rudenko
• One way to structure Web App built in F# and WebSharper – Kimserey Lam
• About Cassandra on Docker with F# – @lenadroid
• Tips for starting develop in F# in Atom – Andreas Willich
• Exercises in Programming Style–Letterbox – Yan Cui
• Pattern Matching (not only) on Record Fields – @teadrivendev
• Hack your commit history for fun and profit
• Impressions of using F# (with a little bit of Xamarin.Forms) – Andreas Willich
• Look-and-say: F# – Boris Kogan
• Look-and-say: [Alea.]CUDA – Boris Kogan
• Setting up an F# project for Unity3d – Nikita Tchayka
• Exercises in Programming Style–Closed Maps – Yan Cui
• Visual Studio Team Services and FAKE – Isaac Abraham
• Data Structures Matters – Mike Harris
• Exercises in Programming Style–Abstract Things – Yan Cui
• Solution to Adventcode Day 7 in FSharp – Naveen
• Autoincrement your NuGet using FAKE – Flechner Romain
• Project Euler — Problem 75 Solution – Yan Cui
• MS Bond and Chiron benchmarked – Yan Cui
• Optimising Civ 5 cities using genetic algorithms – Mark Watts
• Chart-tastic F# Goodness – Bear & Hammer

Ernest Pazera coding corner

• Refactorfest
• Score Stub and Monster Stats
• Putting on a Show
• Maze Explorer: Almost Done!
• The Joy of Functional GameDev: First Episode
• TJoFGD Schedule and Video Editing
• The Crossroads of “Joy”
• High Scores and Game Jolt API
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 2
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 3
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 4
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 5

F# vNext News 

• F# 4.0 Language Spec
• Updated: F# for CoreCLR Status
• Using the coreclr F# compiler now bootstraps the OSS build
• Over the holidays @enricosada added F# support to the dotnet cli for cross platform .Net development
• Don Syme has been working on integrating the F# Compiler Service into VisualFsharp
• Prototype of Visual F# editor features based on Roslyn Workspace API
• If you contribute to Visual F#, let Jared Parsons know what you think
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Introduce a different approach for resolving ambiguity of record types
  • Introduce array spread operator for pattern matching and [<ParamArray>]
  • Support Shared Projects
  • Optionally relax signatures of -X, sin X, cos X to allow use w.r.t. subtyping
  • fix interface type parameters cannot be unit

Open source projects

• suave-angular2-demo – Demo site for Suave 1.0 + Angular 2.0.0-beta.0
• emparsec – Embeddable single file parser
• FsSql – Functional wrapper around ADO.NET for F#
• spiral-library – Basic reverse AD on the GPU
• generator-fsharp – Yeoman generator
• fing – F# API Search
• fix – Project and File Management for F#
• ScrapyFSharp – This is a reborn of Scrapysharp written in FSharp
• vsts-fsharp – Visual Studio Team Services extension for F#-friendly tools
• unquote – Write F# unit test assertions as quoted expressions, get step-by-step failure messages for free
• FunSharp – Fun cross-platform graphics library, based on the Small Basic library, made specifically for F# and C#.
• FSharpVerbalExpressions – F# Regular expressions made easy
• ILBuilder – Prototype for an F# MSIL DSL

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 2.0.0.2
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 2.0.0.2
• FAKE 4.13 comes with support for NUnit 3
• Paket 2.44.1
• Suave 1.0.0
• Logary 3.6.0
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.9
• FSharp.Azure .StorageTypeProvider 1.4.1
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.19
• LanguageExt.Process.FSharp 1.7.18
• fsharp-mode (20160108.250)
• ExcelProvider 0.5.0 and new docs site
• FSharp.Formatting 2.13.2
• WebSharper 3.6.7
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.5.1
• Chessie 0.4.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #1

Welcome to F# Weekly,

Thank you to all who participated and read this year “F# Advent Calendar in English 2015“. We did it once again and it was amazing!!!

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The week in .NET – 12/29/2015
• New book: Mastering .NET Machine Learning

Videos/Presentations

• Actor-based Concurrency with F# and Akka.NET at .NET Framework Day (slides)
• LambdaConf 2015 – Freya F# for HTTP Systems Andrew Cherry Part 1
• LambdaConf 2015 – Freya F# for HTTP Systems Andrew Cherry Part 2
• Lean and Functional Programming – Bryan Hunter
• Functional Geekery Episode 37 – Eric Smith

Blogs

• Visualizing F# Advent Calendar contributors – Pierre Irrmann
• Implementing API Gateway in F# Using Rx and Suave – Tamizh Vendan
• Happy New Year 2016 around the World – Tomas Petricek
• Welcome to 2016 – A Call to Action – F# Software Foundation
• Reconciling Stacktraces with Computation Expressions – Eirik Tsarpalis
• F# – Puresort of lists (Okasaki) – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Beyond lists – Copenhagen 2015 – Phillip Trelford
• Opening Locks – Ernest Pazera
• A safer way to use F# with SQL CLR – A safer way to use F# with SQL CLR
• Learning F# – The Thunderdome Principle for Functions – Jan Van Ryswyck
• Year in Review, 2015 – Yan Cui
• F# Presentations at CodeMash 2016 – Craig Stuntz
• How to write the simplest trading strategy using Spreads – Victor Baybekov
• Procedural Invaders – Phillip Trelford
• Introducing XPlot, a Chart Generation Library for F# – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• About Cassandra on Docker with F# – @lenadroid
• Look-and-say: F# – Boris Kogan
• Seeking Game Balance – Ernest Pazera

F# vNext News 

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • In a pattern match use the record field name as a default binding if none is provided

Open source projects

• Xebec – Imagine a world where you could have your F# fun without the msbuild pain, misery, and suffering …
• msc-dissertation-code – F# forecasting ML Algorithm
• pricingmodelstudy – Exploration of how a pricing model might work in F#
• oandafs – F# library for OANDA REST API
• chessie – Railway-oriented programming for .NET
• WPF-Rethought
• symexec – Demonstration of state/list monad as an API for symbolic execution
• fsharpx.cmdlet – F# PowerShell Cmdlets
• fsharp.comprovider – F# type provider for COM interop
• fsharp.desktop.ui – F# MVC framework for WPF

New Releases

• Paket 2.40.2 with lots of bug and performance fixes
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Twitter 0.12.0
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Sas 0.12.0
• Stanford.NLP.NET 3.6.0
• Stanford.NLP.Parser.Fsharp 0.0.12
• FSharp.ViewModule.Core 0.9.9.2 –  Pure PCL now, and backing fields are now IObservable<T>
• FSharp.Formatting 2.13.0
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.9
• MathNet.Numerics.FSharp 3.10.0
• Imms.FSharp 0.5.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #52

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The F# Software Foundation is now officially a public charity in the United States!
• Expert F#4.0 is out!
• The week in .NET – 12/22/2015
• Exceptions and Fault tolerance & Cloud Gotchas with MBrace
• Christmas present for Paket users: Lots of performance fixes in the latest version.
• Over 1000 students have now signed up for F# TV course.

Videos/Presentations

• Introduction to Visual F# in Visual Studio 2015: Movie 1 – Eriawan Kusumawardhono
• Introduction to Visual F# in Visual Studio 2015: Movie 2 – Eriawan Kusumawardhono

Blogs

• Automatic re-build and background tasks for suave.io websites – Steffen Forkmann
• Property-based testing XSLT – Tomasz Heimowski
• Hacking together @wbfacts, a World Bank Twitter Bot – Mathias Brandewinder
• F# Advent Calendar 2015 – Chad Boyer
• F# advent 2015 – some fun with lambda calculus – Carsten König
• Getting Started with SignalR using F# and OWIN – Troy Kershaw
• Comparing trees, functionally – Matthew Sottile
• Designing for Problems Too Big to Test – Craig Stuntz
• Monogame SnowFlakes – 2015 – Richard Griffiths
• F# Powered Realtime Dashboard – Louie Bacaj
• WebSharper – a year in review – Adam Granicz
• F#, Minecraft and a Raspberry Pi – Chris Dobson
• Generating Markov text from YouTube comments – @squeekeeper
• Twitter Local – Indy Garcia
• Visualizing event streams – Jef Claes
• Introducing Spreads library – buybackoff
• Data Science in F# using FsLab: Interview with Tomas Petricek –  InfoQ – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Numerology calculations with F# – Vedhava Sodhi
• Learning F# – The Thunderdome Principle for Functions – Jan Van Ryswyck
• F# Fsharp Only – Access to ANY Database by System.Data.Common -WPF – Vasily Kalugin
• F# – Conditional Expressions vs. Pattern Matching – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Advent of Code F# – Day 7 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 8 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 9 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 10 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 11 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 12 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 13 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 14 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 15 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 17 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 18 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 19 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 20 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 21 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 22 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 23 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 24 – Yan Cui
• Advent of Code F# – Day 25 – Yan Cui

F# vNext News 

• Paddy McDonald ported NUnit based tests to Core CLR
• F# out of the box in dotnet CLI

Open source projects

• Fsharp.EntityFramework.MicrosoftSQLServer – EntityFramework 7 DbContext scaffolding for SqlServer
• Cricket – An actor framework for F#
• FsPlot – F# Data Visualization Library
• docoptnetprovider – An F# Type Provider for docopt.net

New Releases

• FSharp.Formatting 2.12.1
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.8
• SwaggerProvider 0.3.2
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.15
• RouteProvider 0.0.1-beta4

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #51

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Don’t miss and sign up for the F# TV Gazette, fill Christmas Cryptic Crossword and win “Machine learning projects for .Net developers” book!
• The week in .NET – 12/15/2015
• Learn F#, participate in Advent Of Code.
• New course from Isaac Abraham: “Up and Running with F#“
• Let’s start the era of support for `portable` profiles in OSS F# projects.
• Xamarin sponsored F# course to make it free for everyone
• F# Machine Learning / Data Science group in 2016
• FSSF is setting up Training & Communications working groups
• Welcome new EntityFramework 7 DbContext Type Provider.
• Suave is now available over HTTPS with Let’s Encrypt

Videos/Presentations

• MBrace: REPL driven scalable computation – Eirik Tsarpalis
• Concurrency with F# and Akka.NET –  Akim Boyko
• Orleans Virtual Meetup 7 – Richard Astbury
• On.NET 12/17/2015 – Miguel de Icaza

Blogs

• Chiron: JSON + Ducks + Monads – Marcus Griep
• Learn the machine! #fsharp #accord.net – @lenadroid
• F#, event sourcing and CQRS tutorial… and agents – Tomas Jansson
• Building an Hypermedia REST API with F# and Suave.IO – Alex Casquete
• The Star Wars social network – Evelina Gabasova
• Pseudocode-Driven Development with F# – Stachu Korick
• Advent of Code F# – Day 16 – Yan Cui
• A Mixed-Paradigm Recipe for Exposing Native Code – Paulmichael Blasucci
• 1729 – Kunjan Dalal
• Ukulele Fun for XMas ! – Jérémie Chassaing
• Using F# for scientific instrument control – Anton Tcholakov
• ReST vs CQRS: The Trigger Pattern – Matt Hawkins
• Angels From the Realms of Glory – Michael Newton
• Let It Snow! A basic particle system in F# and WPF – Steven Pemberton
• Developing mobile apps at the speed of light – Juan M Gómez
• Reactive Messaging Patterns with F# and Akka.NET – Jorge Fioranelli
• Early exit is a tail call optimization of procedural languages – Vladimir Khorikov
• Advent of Code F# – Day 1 to 6 – Yan Cui
• Refactoring to FParsec – Leif Battermann
• Scripting Form Scripts – Dr. Lambda Things
• Chiron: Taming Types in the Wild – Marcus Griep
• Organized Chaos with F# – Jet/Nora Jones
• User Groups and F# – Simon Foster
• Advent of Code F# – Day 16 – Yan Cui
• What Comes Next to Higher Order Functions – Nicolas A Perez
• Learning F# – Passing Parameters to Functions – Jan Van Ryswyck
• Functional composition – Robin Ridderholt
• RUST + F# + C# = ❤ – Sanket Saurav
• Importing Messages From Windows Phone to Android – Gustavo Guerra

F# vNext News 

• Latest release: V4.0.Update2.Preview-12.18.2015 (Is it ready for a full release? Please try it out, and find bugs.)
• Join the discussion: How to drive F# Adoption – Part 1 & Part 2 & Part 3
• Open Standup: Monday 12/21/2015 — 10:00 AM PT 10:30 AM PT
• Enrico Sada is working on .NET cli support for F#
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Automatic lazy wrapping of argument
  • Expand support for byref to match C# 7
  • Allow string literal formats for TimeSpan/DateTime e.g. “00:00:01″t for a TimeSpan(0,0,1)

Open source projects

• Aether – an open source optics (lenses, prisms, etc.) library for F#
• Chiron – an open source library for working with JSON in F#
• XrmContext – generates early-bound .NET framework classes which represent the entity model of the given Dynamics CRM instance
• ServiceFabricSuave – Minimal Suave Host for Azure Service Fabric
• FsOwin – an example of an F# OWIN API
• ifsharp – F# Profile for iPython Notebook 1.x and 2.x
• fhash – File Hashing Utility using F#
• tala – Community Edition of WcfStorm.Rest
• Shaver – Lightweight F# library for Suave.io web server using Razor engine adding some extra features like template composing, custom return codes or localization resources support.
• StarWarsMarkov – StarWars Markov Script Generator

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 1.4.2.3
• FSharp.Quotations.Evaluator 1.0.7
• Aether 8.0.2
• Chiron 6.0.1
• SwaggerProvider 0.2.0
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.10
• LanguageExt.Process.FSharp 1.7.10
• FsLibTool 0.1.1
• WebSharper 3.6.6

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #50

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Call for rebooting F# Web Stack, Platform and Tools
• Visual F# Power Tools Team implemented “keyboard shortcuts for collapse, expand regions“
• Peek Definition is in Visual F# Power Tools.
• Check out F# section in The week in .NET – 12/08/2015
• Do not forget 10 more excellent FsAdvent blog posts from the Japanese F#-ers
• New link to FsAdvent RSS feed from @teadrivendev.
• XPlot has progressed far with its docs & functionality. An impressive choice for cross-platform viz with F#
• New website release: www.quantalea.com with a new cheap basic edition for AleaGPU
• The dotnet cli offers a new way to build .Net apps.
• Open Source .NET – 1 year later

Videos/Presentations

• Keynote: The Past, Present, and Future of Visual F# – David Stephens
• Park Bench Discussion with Don Syme
• F# Interactive running on CoreCLR

Blogs

• Powering F# Development on Visual Studio Code with Ionide – InfoQ
• Application contracts with Swagger powered APIs for .NET or Why SwaggerProvider – Sergey Tihon
• What’s the time Mr Wolf? – Aaron Powell
• F#, .NET and the Open Source situation – Isaac Abraham
• A Quick Look At F# In Visual Studio Code – Jonathan Wood
• Christmas Trees in WPF using FSharp.ViewModule – Reed Copsey, Jr.
• The trips and traps of creating a Generative Type Provider in F# – Peter Bayne
• Algo Trading with F# and GPUs – Daniel Egloff (code)
• Making Busy Progress in F# – @TeaDrivenDev
• Providing Value with Trivial Abstraction in F# – Reid Evans
• What’s new in F# 4.0 in Visual Studio 2015 – Eriawan Kusumawardho
• Solving the Santa Claus Problem in F# – Riccardo Terrell
• More Computation expressions – Andrea Magnorsky
• Annoucing @mavnn Ltd – Michael Newton
• Exercises in Programming Style–Things – Yan Cui
• Disinherited Types – Phillip Trelford
• MSDNify Types – Phillip Trelford
• Practical Persimmon.Dried #FsAdvent – Gab-km
• Higher order functions, what are they? – Nicolas A Perez
• Community for F# Activity – Ryan Riley
• Thirteen ways of looking at a turtle – addendum – Scott Wlaschin
• Progressive F# Tutorials London 2015 – Jamie Dixon
• Extracting information from your code repository using F# – Part 1: parsing the log file – Vicenç García-Altés

F# vNext News 

• F# Open Standup: Monday 12/14/2015 — 10:00 AM PT 10:30 AM PT
• Visual F#: Adopt code of conduct
• PR needs testing: WIP: Fix 640 – parameter intellisense for static parameters to methods
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • respect multi-line triple quoted strings indentation
  • interpret `do! action` as `let! () = action in zero` when the Builder has no Return defined

Open source projects

• Persimmon – a test framework for F#
• disinherit – an F# Type Provider that proxies existing types hiding inherited members
• msdnify – an F# Type Provider that groups type members into methods, properties & events
• generator-fsharp – F# Yeoman Generator
• minecraft-map-manipulator – code for reading and writing Minecraft region files
• Owin.Compression – compression (Deflate / GZip) module for Microsoft OWIN Selfhost filesystem pipeline.
• linqoptimizer – an automatic query optimizer-compiler for Sequential and Parallel LINQ
• MSHealthTypeProvider – an F# type provider for the MS Health API ( https://developer.microsoftband.com/cloudAPI )
• grnline.fs – A tiny command line tool for Groonga.

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 1.4.2.2
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.5
• SwaggerProvider 0.1.3-beta
• ScanRat 0.5.0
• FSharp.Actor-logary 3.5.0
• FSharp.QueryProvider 1.0.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #49

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Tomas Petricek twitted how Evelina Gabasova taking pictures of David Stephens taking pictures of English food!
• F# Advent Calendar in English 2015 RSS Feed.
• Visual F# Power Tools Outlining & Quick Info panel
• Visual Studio Update 1 RTM
• What’s New in Visual Studio Update 1 for .NET Managed Languages
• A LINQPad beta with F# autocompletion and tooltips is now out
• New version of vsce (VS Code publishing tool) is released.
• All NYC F# videos are online
• Discussion about Fix (F# mix) – Project and File Management for F#
• Amazing to see how Hype is using R from F# for visualization
• The Week in .NET – 12/1/2015
• O’Reilly Analyzing and Visualizing Data with F#
• PowerShell team is looking at opening up its design process, nice callout to the F# and Roslyn teams as models
• Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript engine to go open-source
• Source code for the Swift compiler, libraries, and tools is available on Github
• Accepted fsharp 4.0.0.4+dfsg2-1 (source all) into experimental, experimental
• ES7 Proposal: The Pipeline Operator

Videos/Presentations

• The F# Web Stack with Henrik Feldt
• RouteProvider demo – Isak
• FSharp eye for the Haskell guy – London 2015 – Phillip Trelford
• F#: The Pit of Success – Isaac Abraham
• Numerical Computing with F# and MKL – Adam Mlocek

Blogs

• How to restore Visual Studio 2015 after the Update 1 (dependency dance) – Sergey Tihon
• F# advent calendar: Using Async.Choice in Paket –  Steffen Forkmann
• Sharpen up your legacy app(s) performance with a bit of F# – Bohdan Szymanik
• Recurse – Mark Seemann
• A roll of the Liar’s dice – Kristian Schmidt
• Taking Ionide Out for a Spin –  Mike Janger
• Data Science tools in F# through univariante linear regression – Tomasz Jaskuλa
• Calendar Types – Phillip Trelford
• F# Events, Reactive Programming and Async Workflows – Jeremy Abbott
• Azure WTF# –  Richard Dalton
• Calculating a cannon ball trajectory, the fun way – Edgar Sánchez
• Thirteen ways of looking at a turtle – Scott Wlaschin
• Thirteen ways of looking at a turtle (part 2) – Scott Wlaschin
• No 1 at Christmas – Sean Trelford
• Computation expressions and microphones – Andrea Magnorsky
• F# 2015 Advent Cookies – Christopher Atkins
• Hello, FsBlog! – Marcus Griep
• Property based testing with FsCheck, Resharper and NCrunch in Visual Studio 2013 – Alessandro Di Gioia
• Reactive Services with Servicestack and F# – Kunjan Dalal
• Exercises in Programming Style–The One – Yan Cui
• Why We Chose to Write Important Code in F# – Wesley Wiser
• Everything you always wanted to know about using ggplot2 from F# (but were afraid to ask) – Evelina Gabasova
• TDD in a REPL – Will Pleasant-Ryan
• Learning F# – BlackJack – Scott Nimrod
• Writing a F# Type Provider – Aaron Powell

F# vNext News 

• Announcing F# Support in Visual Studio Code with Ionide
• Visual F# 4.0.0 – Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 – 30 November 2015
• Omar Tawfik has joined the F# team, please make him feel welcome
• Visual Fsharp 4.1 begins…
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Char[] Literals
  • Importing DLL’s from projects in current solution into F# interactive
  • Make reflected definitions easy to access
  • Eliminate a limitation of the language on declarations of extension members

Open source projects

• extcore – An extended core library for F#
• Fungible – A library for fast reflective updates to immutable data trees
• Exira Open-Source Repositories
• Matlab-Type-Provider – A (not yet complete) Type Provider for Matlab in the spirit of the R Type Provider
• Streams – A lightweight F#/C# library for efficient functional-style pipelines on streams of data.
• kinectgesturerecognition – A library for gesture recognition for Kinect on F#
• vim-fsharp – F# bindings for vim
• Railway-Oriented-Programming-Example – This repository contains code that demonstrates the “Railway Oriented Programming” concept for error handling in functional programming languages.
• fsharpfsxsolution – An example of a multiple project solution without Visual Studio
• scanrat – PEG Parser Combinators for F# with support for Left Recursion and Memoization
• SkeletalAnimationUrhoSharpFSharp – Demonstrates skeletal animation in UrhoSharp in F# for iOS
• suaveonazurewebsites – Sample project for running Suave as a .NET project on Azure Websites.
• FSharpx.Extras – Functional programming and other utilities from the original “fsharpx” project

New Releases

• Akka.FSharp 1.0.5
• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 2.0.3
• Hashids-fs 1.0.0
• Persimmon.Dried.Quotations 0.1.0
• LM.NET for F# 1.7.4
• Persimmon 1.0.1
• FSharp.Date 0.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #48

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Advent Calendar in English 2015 has already started!
• Check out new release of Visual F# PowerTools. Code outlining, highlighting printf arguments, performance improvements and more!
• Erik Meijer’s Hacker’s Way
• Please comment on the direction you’d like to see FSharpLint take
• fsharpWorks has 6 awesome F# courses ready
• Want a new version of fssnip for Xmas? We need just 8 remaining things! Some are good for F# beginners too!
• Distributing Python code using mbrace
• Using the R type provider with MBrace
• Check out VsVim – an addin for VS written in F#
• Hashids F# implementation
• Could Hoboken-based start up ‘Jet’ be the new Amazon?
• Finding security bugs on the road to creating a verifiably secure TLS lib
• BASH completion for FAKE tasks

Videos/Presentations

• F# (Future Decoded 2015 UK) – Don Syme
• Herding Code 213: Sean Trelford on Composing 3D Objects with F# and OpenGL
• Visual Studio Code – Connect(); // 2015
• MBrace: REPL-driven scalable computation with Eirik Tsarpalis (Part 1 of 2)
• MBrace: REPL-driven scalable computation with Eirik Tsarpalis (Part 2 of 2)
• FAKE + Paket part 1 with Steffen Forkmann
• FAKE + Paket part 2 with Steffen Forkmann
• Practical Machine Learning in F# by Sudipta Mukherjee at Functional Conf 15
• F# and the Cloud – Isaac Abraham
• Nusbio – Controlling LEDs with F#
• 7 ineffective coding habits many F# programmers don’t have – Yan Cui

Blogs

• Microsoft Open Sources Quantum Computing
• F# Keyboard Bindings with AutoHotkey – TeaDrivenDev
• How Jet Build Microservices with F# – Rachel Reese
• Creating Dynamic Uris For Visual Studio Web Tests – Jamie Dixon

F# vNext News 

• F# Open Standup: Monday 11/30/2015 — 10:00 AM PT 10:30 AM PT
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Introduce the ?. operator into F#

Open source projects

• SuaveAzureCloudService – Example project illustrating how to host Suave in an Azure Cloud Service.
• Liquid – The Language-Integrated Quantum Operations (LIQUi|>) simulator
• Hutton – F# implementation of Graham Hutton’s parser combinator library from chapter 8 of his book Programming in Haskell
• Countdown – F# countdown problem implementation of chapter 11 of Graham Hutton’s book Programming in Haskell
• diamondfscheck – The Diamond kata done with Property-Based Testing in F#
• SentimentAnalysisDemo – Talk on sentiment analysis of tweets using F#
• OctoProv – A very, very incomplete type provider for Octopus Deploy
• FCor – F# Numerical Library
• Persimmon.Dried – Random testing for Persimmon

New Releases

• FSharp.IO.FileSystem 3.2.1
• FSharp.RDF 1.1.101
• Math.NET Numerics for F# 3.9.0
• FSharp.Desktop.UI 0.7.1
• FSharpLog 1.2.0
• PrivateEye 0.3.1
• WebSharper 3.6 released with CDN support
• fsharp-mode (20151124.736) – F# mode for Emacs

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #47