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

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Vagrant has been renamed to Vagabond. Please update your NuGet packages accordingly.
• C# 7 language planning
• Don Syme encourages F# people into Azure/Cloud to follow and contribute to Akka.NET and help use/improve the F# API.
• Sergey Bykov is looking for F# experts to help make F# and ProjectOrleans great together. (+issue)

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Simpler Data Access and Smarter Calculations by Paul Blasucci
• A Machine Learning Journey in F# – Richard Minerich
• F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming –  Timothy Ng
• Functional DDD – Alessandro Melchiori
• Check list of awesome talks.

Blogs

• Is your programming language unreasonable? – Scott Wlaschin
• Logentries.com and F# – Jamie Dixon
• F# Should have been on the C64
• Tail recursion and trampolining in C# – Pavel Volgarev
• .NET Core Open Source Update – .NET Framework team
• Akka.NET – One Year Later

F# vNext News

• Visual FSharp 4.0 Preview 01-26-2015
• All of the Codeplex F# issues have been migrated to GitHub.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Ability to rename files
  • Ability to add web file types to project
  • Ability to simply move files in the Solution Explorer
  • Make F# union types like “list” that have no subtypes ‘sealed’

New releases

• Paket 0.26.0
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.0.2
• R.NET F# Utility 0.1.12
• WebSharper 3.0.15-alpha
• Suave 0.21.1
• Hopac 0.0.0.39

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

• The open source “Bond” fx from Msft for distributed schematized data – now with an F# type provider!
• The F# Software Foundation just signed up its 300th member!
• F# and Functional Programming in Finance by Tomas Petricek.
• Orleans is Officially Open Source,
• How to write the perfect pull request.
• Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 is released.
• Up close with the HoloLens, Microsoft’s most intriguing product in years.
• Akka.NET – One Year Later.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• The F# Path to Relaxation – Don Syme (+slides)
• F#, Property Based Testing With FsCheck – Andrea Magnorsky
• Functional programming design patterns with Scott Wlaschin
• Learn about creating DSLs in F# – Matthew Sottile
• Learn about creating DSLs in F# 2 – Matthew Sottile
• F# News – January 2015 – Troy Kershaw
• Programming in Elixir with Bryan Hunter
• Ford Keynote – CES 2015 (Glimpse of Xamarin / F# Android app – 18 m 40 sec)

Blogs

• A functional approach to authorization – Scott Wlaschin
• Constraining capabilities based on identity and role – Scott Wlaschin
• Using types as access tokens – Scott Wlaschin
• Enigma Machine – Type Provider Edition – Ross McKinlay
• How to get pragmatists to use F# – Arthur Johnston
• MBrace F# large-scale distributed computation progress report and looking for OSS collaborators – Eirik Tsarpalis
• Futures in F# – Mark Watts
• F# Record Types with SqlProvider Code-Last – Jamie Dixon
• Step-5 Advanced Search DSL Using FParsec – Tamizh Vendan
• Averages are not good enough (F#) – Jef Claes
• Two Track Coding (ROP) For Dummies – Part 1 – David Crook
• Two Track Coding (ROP) For Dummies – Part 2 – David Crook
• Beginners quick guide to setup FsBlog and start to blog in 5 minutes – Tomasz Jaskula
• Cyclic Data References in F# – Frank Joppe
• EdLambda 10/02/2015 – Simon Fowler
• F# Higher Order Functions (List) Part3 – Michael Coxeter
• F# type signature gotchas – David Tchepak
• F# Async: Plays well with others? – Ian Voyce
• Programming WatchKit with F# – Larry O’Brien
• F# signatures, a helpful debugging aid – Michael Coxeter
• Stormin’ F# – Faisal Waris
• Minimize mental overhead for code readers – Richard Dalton
• Listen und Morphismen – Carsten König
• Small Basic On Mac & Linux – Phillip Trelford
• Debugging Small Basic Apps In Visual Studio – Phillip Trelford
• A minimal full bitcoin node in F# – Talkera
• Aprender programación funcional con F# (1) – Iwan van der Kleijn
• Wo das lambda herkommt – Carsten König

F# vNext News

• Recently accepted PRs:
  • Hidden members should not be shown in QuickInfo #73
  • Fix for issue #69 on github: units of measure metadata #72
  • Fix #44 – Problems using FSI on a project #71
  • Fix #38 – System.ArgumentException: not a measure abbreviation, or in correct kind #70
  • Implements extended if grammar #55
• Recently proposed RPs:
  • Show warning when DU is accessed without type but RequiredQualifiedAccess was set #103
  • Fix name-demangleling of provided types #102
  • [WIP] Migrate Cambridge test suite (tests/fsharp) runner to NUnit #90
  • Quickfix for #9 and #10 #87
  • Enable codegen for exception filters by default #66
  • Fix #74: Add Checked.int8/uint8 and Nullable.int8/uint8/single/double #19
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Remove “method” from reserved keyword list
  • Connect FSI on breakpoint with environment available.
  • Define a function the same way as define lambda
  • Allow us to bind names multiple times in a pattern match
  • Add Checked.int8/uint8 and Nullable.int8/uint8/single/double
  • Use the default keyword instead of the [<DefaultValue>] attribute
  • Extend the set of expressions supported in provided methods
  • Restrict “private” for items in namespaces to mean “private to the namespace declaration group” #43
  • Support for [<CLIEvent>] on modules

New releases

• FsLab 0.1.3 (with integrated R provider + Deedle, working on Mac)
• Paket 0.25.1
• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack 1.1.3.56
• FSharp.Formatting 2.6.3
• Hopac 0.0.0.38
• EventStore.Client.FSharp 3.1.6
• Logary 2.4.1
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.0.1
• NLog.FSharp 3.2.0
• Serilog.Extras.FSharp 1.4.139
• Ext.Direct.Mvc.Fsharp 1.0.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #3

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual F# is on GitHub !!!
• FsReveal 0.3 now comes with reveal.js 3.0
• Dallas F# User Group was presented.
• Mikael Lundin is looking for technical reviewers for his book “Testing with F#”.
• MBrace progress report
• Roll-a-ball-FSharp – Unity 3d game engine tutorial

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Statistical Genomics using F# with Evelina Gabasova
• Functional programming design patterns with Scott Wlaschin
• Codemash 2015 – Ryan Riley
• F# Expert Panel – Fountainhead Lab

Blogs

• Visual F# has moved to GitHub – Visual F# Team
• FnuPlot: Cross-platform charting with gnuplot – Tomas Petricek
• SlideShow: Paket Introduction – Steffen Forkmann
• Logic level parsing Rigol oscilloscope CSV data with F# – Andre Van Der Merwe
• F# Record Types with Entity Framework Code-Last – Jamie Dixon
• F#: Pattern matching on field literals – David Tchepak
• Developer Day – A Day Dedicated To Learning New Things – Michał Śliwoń
• F# Higher Order Functions (List) Part1 – Michael Coxeter
• Data science with F# – Decision Mechanics
• F# Project Loading – Liam McLennan
• Format TypeScript with F# – Cameron Taggart
• Fun with FunScript – Tobias Burger
• Programming the Azure Active Directory with F# – Tomas Jansson
• Using Serilog with F# Discriminated Unions – Nicholas Blumhardt
• F# Higher Order Functions (List) Part2 – Michael Coxeter
• Averages are not good enough (F#) – Jef Claes
• My road to F# – Alessandro Melchiori

F# vNext News

• New preview release of Visual F# Tools For Visual Studio 2015
• Recently accepted PRs:
  • Add issue stats #25
  • Extension for property initializers #17
  • Teach F# 4.0 compiler about future 4.1+ native intrinsics #16
  • Simplified, more robust resolution of type references in quotations
  • Add contributing guidelines to repo root #1
• Recently proposed RPs:
  • Private val fix #28
  • add Checked.int8/uint8 and Nullable.int8/uint8 #19
  • Allow use of multi interface instantiations #18
  • WIP: Create a FAKE Build #15
  • WIP: Nameof operator #13
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Mezzo/Rust-like features for F# code to be data-race free
  • Support for tail recursion modulo cons
  • Evaluate tuple before fun-keyword in fun-parameters
  • Adopt the (C#/ES6) fat arrow “=>” syntax for lambda functions
  • Allow opening of static classes (like modules)
  • Create ‘filteri’ functions for the various collections Array, List, Seq

New releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.82
• Paket 0.23.0
• RProvider 1.1.6
• FSharp.Data.HiveProvider 0.0.3
• FSharp.Formatting 2.6.2
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.8
• CloudSharper 0.9.26
• F# Data Toolbox (Twitter) 0.6.0
• FnuPlot 0.0.5-beta
• FSharpLint 0.1.14
• fsharp-mode (20150114.1450) — F# mode for Emacs
• Lucifure Stash Version 1.3
• Serilog.Extras.FSharp 1.4.128

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #2

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FsReveal has now a new FAKE target which allows you to deploy your slides to GitHub pages.
• Visual F# PowerTools Tip: use “Ctrl Shift + Arrow Down/Up” to navigate between next/previous highlighted references.
• Shared some inside about Jet.com.
• Number of unique people tweeting about F# per day is increasing
• Vote for F# support in add web jobs in Visual Studio (if you like an idea)
• RProvider works on the Mac
• F# is added to Stackshare

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Leveraging Functional Programming for Data Science – Richard Minerich
• F# News – December 2014 – Hadi Eskandari
• F# in social gaming (CodeMash 15) – Yan Cui
• F# on the Web: 0 to Production in 12 Weeks – Ryan Riley (+code)

Blogs

• Why your F# evangelism isn’t working – Eric Sink
• RSDE positions at Microsoft Research, Cambridge – Don Syme
• Concurrency, performance and F# – Mårten Rånge
• F# Record Types With Entity Framework Code-First – Jamie Dixon
• Using F# on a Raspberry Pi – Andre Van Der Merwe
• Tweaking Sublime Text themes to take advantage of Retina displays on Windows – Nikos Baxevanis
• Spelling checker in F# – Frank Joppe
• In the Age of Web: Typed Functional-First Programming Revisited – Tomas Petricek, Don Syme
• Fibanacci: Hopac vs Async vs TPL Tasks on .NET and Mono – Vasily Kirichenko
• Why you should learn F# in 2015 (and how)? – Tomas Petricek
• MonoGame, F# and Santa! – Greg Duncan
• Mastermind, The Code Breaking Game – Richard Dalton
• Working with Non-Compliant OWIN Middleware – Ryan Riley
• FAKE Final Targets – Sergey Tihon
• Recreating the Star Wars opening crawl in AutoCAD using F# – Part 1 – Kean Walmsley
• Recreating the Star Wars opening crawl in AutoCAD using F# – Part 2 – Kean Walmsley
• Recreating the Star Wars opening crawl in AutoCAD using F# – Part 3 – Kean Walmsley
• Recreating the Star Wars opening crawl in AutoCAD using F# – Part 4 – Kean Walmsley
• F# Match Expressions – Michael Coxeter
• FSharp.Msisdn – Torbjørn Marø
• Step-4 Build Automation Using FAKE – TamizhVendan
• Fun with L-system – Mathias Brandewinder

F# vNext News

• Visual F# and Roslyn will both be moving to GitHub next week!!!
• First Visual F# Tools Preview of 2015 includes localized templates.
• Recently accepted PRs:
  • rational exponents for units (preview)
  • allow fsharp.* refs to fscore nspcs (preview)
  • add icon for fsi.exe (preview)
• Recently proposed RPs:
  • compiler error msg fix
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Add possibility to use break and continue in f# loops. And do while loop

New releases

• Paket 0.22.9
• FSharp.Formatting 2.6.0
• F# Data Toolbox (Twitter) 0.5.0
• FSharp.Configuration 0.4.9
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.8-beta1
• WebSharper 3.0.8-alpha
• CloudSharper 0.9.25
• MathNet.Numerics.FSharp 3.5.0
• Suave 0.21
• Logibit Hawk 0.4.0
• Logary 2.3.2
• irc-fs – An IRC client library for F#
• FSharp.Quotation.Disassembler 0.1.0.1
• FSharpWebKit

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #1

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New FSSF membership site is live! Join the F# Software Foundation!
• Participate in “Twitter Pulse #fsharp 2014“.
• F# Advent Calendar 2014 has ended – read full English and Japanese versions.
• F# Lint snippets is Online.
• Code2014: What programming languages did you use during 2014? (If you’ve written any F# this year- tweet to show your use of F#)
• Functional Track talks from NDC London 2014.
• Donna Malayeri used to be part of the Redmond F# team, these days she is doing Azure fun stuff. Check it out.
• The F# logo is now part of devicons v1.7!
• New docs: How to get Windows Service Bus working with F# CloudAgent.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Scott Theleman – Understanding F# Workflows Part 1 of 2

This week from F# Advent Calendar in English

• Snowflakes — redux – Andrew Cherry
• Deploying .NET code instantly using Vagrant – Eirik Tsarpalis
• F# 2014 – A Retrospective and Call to Action –  Reed Copsey, Jr.

This week from F# Advent Calendar in Japanese

• スコープやオフサイドルール小話 – pocketberserker
• F# Build Tools for Unity(ゲームのやつ) – UniFSharpのご紹介 – zecl
• FsCheck と ScalaCheck とを見比べる – gab_km

Blogs

• Using DocumentDB With F# – Jamie Dixon
• Less Defects with F# Units of Measure – Jon Wood
• Driving Xamarin’s Android Player from the Command Line – Greg Shackles
• The 2014 F# Tour in numbers – Mathias Brandewinder
• Using SQL Type Providers and FSharp.Charting to generate an email report with inline charts in F# – Brian
• Reading List for F# Learning – Jorge Tavares
• Type-safe reflection using F# quotations – Mårten Rånge
• Duck Typing in FSharp – Frank Joppe
• Step-3 PhoneCat Recommendation System Using F# Agents, SignalR and Rx – TamizhVendan
• Adding New Items to a Pure F# ASP.NET MVC/Web API Project – Daniel Mohl
• Foto einfügen von der Laptop Kamera – Functional Software

F# vNext News

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Implement types within types
  • Implement first-class lensing / lenses in F#

New releases

• Paket 0.21.5
• Visual F# Power Tools 1.7 New Year Edition.
• FSharp.Formatting 2.5.0 compatible with the latest FSharp.Compiler.Service
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.6
• FSharp.Management 0.2.0
• F# Data Toolbox (Twitter) 0.3.0
• MathNet.Numerics.FSharp 3.4.0
• Fss 1.2.0 (F# Server – lightweight F# web server)
• Nu Game Engine v0.996b
• Stacks FSharp 1.3.3

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

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