Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Facebook social network analysis with Tsunami.
• FCell evaluation is now publicly available from Statfactory.
• An early prototype of a package / content search system based on Sliverlight PivotViewer.
• Matlab Type Provider now supports vararg in/out and matlab native functions.
• MS has fixed an F# bug: Now you can add F# projects to Azure web sites and deploy them from Git.
• Bunch of talks from flatMap 2013 Oslo were posted.
• It would be nice to have Nancy.FSharp as Nancy wrapper for F#.

Videos/Presentations

• “Developing a Windows 8 application with F#” by Gustavo Guerra.
• “F# Type Providers” by Jonas Folleso.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “F# Coding Dojo in SF last week“.
• Phil Trelford shared “Modern Art“.
• Phil Trelford shared “.Net Developer – Opportunities to work with F#“.
• Matthew Adams wrote series of posts:
  • Learning To Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Two
  • A step by step guide to installing an F# REPL environment on Windows
  • A step by step guide to installing an F# REPL environment on Linux
• Colin Bull posted “F# 3 and Raven DB“.
• Colin Bull posted “F# Actor: An Actor Library“.
• Faisal Waris wrote “Crypto in a few lines of F#“.
• Stuart Lodge shared “Awesome-F# + Awesome-Xamarin.iOS + Awesome-JMGomez“.
• Dave Fancher blogged “Replicating F#’s using Function in C#“.
• Natallie Baikevich posted “Z3 Mono Starter“.
• Lev Gorodinski wrote about “Domain-Driven Design (DDD) With F# – Validation“.
• The Nashville .NET User Group posted “May 16th Lab: Change of Plans – Intro to F#“.
• The Nashville .NET User Group posted “F# Lab Feedback“.
• Gene Belitski posted “If Google would be looking to hire F# programmers – part 6“.
• David Tchepak blogged “Why not try F#?“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #20

Welcome to F# Weekly,

This past week was full of interesting events and happenings. If you follow F#, you must read all of this carefully. The roundup of F# content:

News

• F# is now available on FreeBSD!
• Matlab Type Provider is available now.
• Does F# need a type-safe data-frame library? How should it look? (Discuss here)
• Ensure you have your say and vote or contribute to F# user voice.
• If you like F#, let MSR know about it.
• Just released a new beta of Tsunami IDE! Excel support back in as are 3rd party plugins.
• If you know any women interested in functional programming, let them know about lambdaladies.com.
• Updated F# Formatting is now on NuGet – with better line-number formatting, tables & Latex support.
• Functional Programming Using F# is available now.
• Record improvements were merged into MongoDB.FSharp.
• Time to vote for the sessions you want to see at DDD East Anglia in Cambridge on June 29th.
• Follow @FCellAddIn to get updates about FCell, integrating F# and C# with Excel.
• Cleaned-up version of LazyList was added to ExtCore.
• Free personal licenses for Alea.cuBase are available.
• The Manifesto for Not Only Object-Oriented Development now in Czech/Danish/French/German/Russian/Spanish.

Videos/Presentations

• “Functional DSLs for Biocomputation” by Colin Gravill.
• “Building a MMORPG with F#” by Yan Cui. (post)

Blogs

• Michael Bayne posted “F# Cheat Sheet“.
• Gustavo Guerra blogged “Building Type Providers – Part 1“.(!!!hot!!!)
• Don Syme posted “F# on FreeBSD“.
• Yossi Kreinin shared “Parallelism and concurrency need different tools“.
• Damir Arh published “Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development With F#“.
• John Liao wrote “Riak Links and Link Walking with F# and CorrugatedIron“.
• Nick Palladinos posted Clojure’s Reducers in F#.
• Tomas Petricek blogged “Power of mathematics: Reasoning about functional types“.
• Phil Trelford announced “F# UK ton of Meetups“.
• Richard Dalton wrote about “Learning to think Functionally: Memoization“.
• Juan M Gomez published “Reaching the Nirvana: MvvmCross + Xamarin.iOS + FSharp“.

• Scott Wlaschin posted “How to design and code a complete program“.

• Scott Wlaschin posted “Railway oriented programming“.(!!!hot!!!)
• Scott Wlaschin posted “Why I won’t be writing a monad tutorial“.
• Sergey Tihon shared “Live tweets from Alea.cuBase F#-for-financial-GPU event in London.“
• Phil Trelford wrote about “F# Deep Dives“.
• Lincoln Atkinson blogged “A Twitter search client in 10 lines of code with F# and the JSON type provider“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “Three easy ways to create simple Web Server with F#“.
• Gene Belitski posted “If Google would be looking to hire F# programmers – part 5“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #19

Welcome to F# Weekly,

Tiny weekly this time, a short roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Node.js + C# + F# + Python + PowerShell interop === #edgejs
• Enjoying interactive data visualization with Tsunami by Taha Hachana
• F#-based quantum algorithms simulator was presented at Niels Bohr Institute last week.
• Call F# async workflows from node.js.
• New FSharpx version was released with fixes in the Excel type provider.
• R Type Provider is on Nuget now.
• GestIT is a C# library for gestures (ready for F#). (Here is a video of using LeapMotion sensor for playing Jetpack)

Videos/Presentations

• The first wave of Evolve sessions videos were posted.
• “Slackless gears with licorice video” by Semasiographologist.
• “Debugging CUDA Written in F#! (First Try)” by Xiang Zhang.
• “F# for Trading” by Phil Trelford.

Blogs

• Vatro published “Ping your boss“.
• Faisal Waris posted “Sample Mobile Web App Presented at #mobidevday“.
• Phil Trelford wrote about “Fixed Width Data Files“.
• Alex Young shared “VimSpeak: Control Vim with Speech Recognition“.
• Experiences using F# for developing analysis scripts and tools over search engine query log data.
• Don Syme blogged “F# for Machine Learning – a Gentle Introduction and Coding Dojo“.
• Marko Apfel posted “Productive work environments for F# development (under windows)“.

P.S. The top 20 data visualisation tools

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #18

@sergey_tihon Lastest results for json.net using the most recent versions off NuGet twitter.com/JamesNK/status…

— James Newton-King ♔ (@JamesNK) May 12, 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# projects on Google Summer of Code.
• Ross McKinlay proposed an idea for new Type Provider.
• Learn how F# is central to Microsoft’s ground-breaking Quantum Algorithms research.

• F#-based quantum algorithms simulator presented at Niels Bohr Institute last week

• A very early public beta release of Tsunami IDE is available now.

Videos/Presentations

• “Domain-driven design with F# and EventStore” by Lev Gorodinski.
• “F# for Trading” by Phillip Trelford.
• FP Days Cambridge 2012 Content on InfoQ.

Blogs

• Phil Trelford posted “Examples!“.
• Jack Pappas shared “How to use the fsharp REPL when debugging C# code in Visual Studio“.
• Colin Bull wrote about “Option Operators“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Recommendation Engine using Math.NET, SVD and F#“(!!!super hot!!!)
• Lev Gorodinski wrote “Domain-Driven Design (DDD) With F# – Validation“.
• TechRepublic posted “CodePaLOUsa: Humanitarian Toolbox, F#, open source licensing, happiness“.
• Marko Apfel introduced “SharpDevelop, F#, missing “Send to F# Interactive” context menu“.
• Anton Kropp wrote “Capturing union values with fparsec“.
• Don Syme blogged “IEEE Computer Society Webinar: Try F# for Big and Broad Data – Tuesday May 7“.
• Richard Dalton wrote “Learning To Think Functionally: Back To Basics“.
• Anton Kropp posted “The largest mass problem“.
• Gene Belitski shared “If Google would be looking to hire F# programmers – part3“.

• Gene Belitski shared “If Google would be looking to hire F# programmers – part4“.

• Mike Harris blogged “Philosophy of Programming“.
• Dave Thomas posted “I Node Something (Bout You)“.

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

• F# community on Google+.
• Fantomas is moving fast: web project is ready and VS add-in is in progress.
• Taha Hachana presented F# syntax highlighting tool.
• Google+ discussion on an F# Resharper plugin.
• Benchmarking F# async http proxy on Mono on Azure.
• “Integrating stock data into the F# language” is new to F# Deep Dives.

Videos

• “Mono, Open Source, Visual Studio, and Xamarin” by Miguel de Icaza.
• “F# embedded in Excel“(part 1 and part 2) by Matt Moloney and Adam Mlocek. (slides)
• “F# MVC for WPF” by Dmitry Morozov. (slides)
• “MathSharp turn MathML into code” by ActiveMesa.
• “Reasonable codewithfsharp” slides by Michael Falanga

Blogs

• John Liao posted “Exploring Riak with F#“.
• Visual Studio Magazine posted “iOS Development with Xamarin.iOS and Visual Studio“.
• Gene Belitski presented “A Tale of Two Functions“.
• Bryan Edds wrote “Aml – A Modular Language written in F# and available for .NET“.
• Mike Harris shared “Finding Perfect Numbers“.
• Sergey Tihon announced “New selectors with Canopy 0.7.3“.
• Anton Kropp wrote “A response to “Ten reasons to not use a functional programming language”“.
• Don Syme blogged “F# and QuantLib: An Introduction“.
• Hao Lian posted “Dive into parser combinators: parsing search queries with F# and FParsec in Kiln“.
• Gene

  Belitski shared “If Google would be looking to hire F# programmers – part1“.

• Gene

  Belitski shared “If Google would be looking to hire F# programmers – part2“.

• Taha Hachana wrote “Fantomas support in the Tsunami IDE“.
• Don Syme blogged “Miguel de Icaza discusses Xamarin support for F# on Channel 9“.
• Sergey Tihon posted “Neo4jClient new Cypher Start notation & F# Extra Top Level Operators“.
• John Liao shared “Exploring Riak with F# and CorrugatedIron“.
• Phil Trelford wrote “Foq It Easy“.
• InfoQ published “Develop Financial Applications with F# and QuantLib“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “WPF MVVM with Xaml Type Provider“.
• Ashley Nathan Feniello posted “Memoization“.
• Richard Dalton wrote “Learning To Think Functionally – Stuck“.
• Phil Trelford shared “Fractal Zoom in Colour“.
• Mike Harris posted “Primality by Trial Division OR TDD Example in F# using FsUnit“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #16

Welcome to F# Weekly,

The greatest event of the past week is Xamarin EVOLVE 2013 Conference where official support of F# as a first class language was announced.  It is a great step forward for F# mobile development. Download Xamarin Studio and try it right now!

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Xamarin supports F# as a first class language.
• Good repository of F# implementation of “Purely functional data structures”.
• Fantomas, the source code formatter for F# with detailed formatting guides, was announced.
• Pacman in F# on iPad & iPhone from Neil Danson using CocoaTouch runs in Xamarin Studio.
• New options of using F# for iOS and Android development were published.
• If you want to sign up as a founding member of http://fsharp.org, email fsharp[at]fsharp[dot]org, or send a pull request to fsfoundation.
• Become an open source hero and add Fantomas code formatting support to the F# binding in Xamarin Studio.
• TahaHachana announced a prototype of an online F# code formatter powered by Fantomas and WebSharper.
• Dave Thomas presented a new F# iOS samples repo.
• Kunjan Dalal published a demo of F# ServiceStack service that running on Heroku. (source code)
• There is a new interesting discussion on benchmarking data structures specific to F#.

Videos

• “Visualize World Bank data in R with F# Type Providers” by Mathias Brandewinder.
  
• “Tsunami Excel with UDFs” by Tsunami IDE.
• “F# Experiences & Perspectives” by Dmitri Nesteruk.
• “Getting Started with F#” by Rachel Reese.
• “F# Pacman on iPhone with Xamarin Studio” by Phillip Trelford.
• “VimSpeak Demo” by Ashley Feniello.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder wrote “Visualize WorldBank data with R and F# Type Providers“.
• Mike Harris posted “Don’t Mind the Gap“.
• Tomas Petricek blogged “Async in C# and F#: Asynchronous gotchas in C#“.
• Akash Chopra wrote “Shrink, Script, Shape“.
• Sergey Tihon posted “Explore local network with F# Async Workflows“.
• Jerome Laban wrote about “Cancellation with Async F#, C# and the Reactive Extensions“.
• Anh-Dung Phan wrote “Developing a source code formatter for F#“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “DNS collisions detection with F# Async Workflows“.
• Dave Thomas posted “A Little Bit of iOS Async“.
• Dave Thomas posted “iOS Async Revisited“.
• Toshihiro Nakamura shared “Web API in a F#-way“.
• Don Syme blogged “F# + GPGPU – Financial Services Developer Forum (.NET in the City) – Thursday 16th May 2013“

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #15

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Gustavo Guerra released “LearnOnTheGo” – Windows Phones App for Coursera.
• Tomas Petricek shared source code of an F# wrapper for gnuplot charting library. Be free to improve it!
• New Canopy web site with documentation was released (and new Canopy 0.7.2).
• Shared new WebSharper custom twitter widget for F#. (by Taha Hachana)
• Kaggle use F# for their data analysis tools and more.
• Read how GameSys are using F# for server-side programming to support millions of active mobile and social game users.
• A first cut at the fsharp.org  page about using F# for machine learning. Please contribute.
• An initial fsharp.org  page about data access with F#. Please contribute.
• Alea.cuBase 1.1 Preview 1 (1.1.467) released!
• 16 minutes from bug report to deployed fix by the F# community. Now that’s service!
• MathNET Numerics v2.5 was released, should resolve quite a few issues, better performance and F# support!
• Released backports of .NET 4.5 IReadOnly* interfaces.

Blogs

• Mike Harris posted “On CPS – Part 2“.
• Yan Cui blogged “Be Lazy, but be ware of initialization exception“.
• Steffen Forkmann wrote “Stati-C/AL Prism – Static analysis for Microsoft Dynamics NAV reloaded“.
• Anton Kropp shared “Capturing mutables in F#“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “F# Exception Formatter“.
• Don Syme wrote “Learn F# in New York – Fast Track to F# with Tomas Petricek, 30 April – 1 May“.
• Loic Denuziere posted  “WebGL and glMatrix Extensions for WebSharper Released“.
• Don Syme shared “Learn F# – Hands On: This Thursday, London F# Meetup“.
• Sergey Tihon wrote about “F# null trick“.
• Heather Cynede posted “F# : OpenShark“.
• Mr. D wrote about “First hand experience with F#“.
• Richard Dalton posted “C# is too damn noisy“.
• Matthew Adams blogged “Which programming languages should I learn: Beginners Edition“.
• Daniel Mohl shared Presentation – Modern Software Architectures: Building Solutions for Web, Cloud, and Mobile“.
• Visual Studio FSharp Team posted “An Update to the F# Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider Sample“.
• “Ten reasons NOT to use a statically typed functional programming language“.
• Taha Hachana shared “Native Drag and Drop with WebSharper“.
• Sergey Tihon reblogged “Running F# Interactive from Windows context menu“.
• Faisal Waris wrote “Visualizing a Schedule using F# and the .Net Visualization Library“.

Pingback to the past:

• “Equality and Comparison Constraints in F#” by Don Syme.
  
• “F# async on the server side” by Brian.
• F# Metaprogramming series by Gene Belitski:
  • F# Metaprogramming part 1: JIT Some Native Code on the Fly
  • F# Metaprogramming part 2: Dynamic synthesis of executable F# code
  • F# Metaprogramming part 3: Creating MSIL on the Fly

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #14

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• IT University Copenhagen choose F# for their undergraduate functional programming course.
• “Testimonials and Quotes” section was announced on F# Software Foundation site.
• Supervision project was announced (F# for Static Analysis).
• A couple of F# bug fixes for portable libraries were rolled out with VS2012 Update 2.
• “Why F#” inspired the girl to try F#!
• List of F# User Groups was published.
• A new option was added to “Use F# on Windows” list.
• Handelsbanken (approx $400B assets) use F# for counter-party risk analysis.

Video

• “T2: A Temporal Property Verifier in F#” by Heidy Khlaaf.
• “TDD and BDD in F#” by Phil Trelford & Zach Bray.
• “F# Experiences & Perspectives” by Dmitri Nesteruk.
• “Supervision: Static Analysis for Microsofts Dynamics NAV” by Bent Rasmussen and Christian Clausen.
• “Day Trading With Tsunami” by Tsunami IDE.

Blogs

• Suzanna posted “AdaBooster in FSharp“.
• Saxon Matt posted “Adopting F#, Part II“.
• Jack Fox wrote “The Fastest Functional Data Structures Come to F#“.
• Saxon Matt published “Code Comparison: C# v.s. F#“.
• Yan Cui published “Sorting Algorithms in F#“.
• Akash Chopra wrote about “F# Testing DSL Part 3“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy posted “Introducing FAKE boot workflow“.
• Ash posted “Running F#, Nancy on heroku“.
• Heather wrote “F# unicode in action“.
• Jeremie Chassaing posted “C# Static interfaces – Take 3“.
• Steffen Forkmann blogged “A tale of nulls – part I“.
• Steffen Forkmann posted “Stati-C/AL Supervision – blazing-fast static analysis for Microsoft Dynamics NAV“.
• Don Syme blogged “The F# Weekly #13“.
• Don Syme posted “Stati-C/AL Supervision – static analysis for Microsoft Dynamics NAV“.
• Don Syme wrote about “F# testimonials on fsharp.org“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #13