Welcome to F# Weekly,

One more week passed by with an excellent event “Functional Programming Exchange 2013“. All tracks are recorded and available on the conference page. But this is not the only event in F# universe, so see details below:

News

• Eduardo Cavazos showed up interaction with Symbolism.
• New F# feature for Xamarin Studio is coming.
• CryMono brings the power of .NET(and F#) to the world of CryENGINE3.
• New release of F# mode for Emacs is now available on MELPA.
• F# API for making VSIX and VSTemplate packages was released.
• Sarissa Game Studio went live.

Videos

• “F# for Trading” by Phil Trelford.
• “F# in the open source world” by Don Syme.
• “Developing with F# in the Cloud” by Adam Granicz.
• “Scripting Rhino 3D with F# and TsunamiIDE” by Alain Cormier.

Blogs

• Alea.cuBase posted “CUDA scripting inside Excel (Part I)“.
• Alea.cuBase posted “CUDA scripting inside Excel (Part II)“.
• Wolfgang Ziegler published review of free eBook: “F# Succinctly”.
• Ashic Mahtab wrote “Building F# 3.0 Projects on a Build Server WITHOUT Visual Studio“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “Getting started with 3D XNA in F#“
• Anton Tayanovskyy posted “Multi-targeting .NET projects with F# and FAKE“.
• Lev Gorodinski shared “The Two Sides of Domain-Driven Design (DDD)“.
• Richard Minerich wrote “Bad Data is the Real Problem“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Transform a picture in the style of Mondrian with F#“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #10

Welcome to F# Weekly,

One more week passed by, but this past week was full of interesting announcements from WebSharper and  Tsunami IDE teams. Read more below:

News

• Manifesto for Not Only Object-Oriented Development
• Tsunami IDE was announced.
• “F# for C# Developers” by Tao Liu, is coming soon. Don’t miss it.

Videos

• “How F# Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data” by Tomas Petricek.
• Tomas Petricek Digs Deep into F#.
• “Interactive F# scripting in Excel without Visual Studio” by Tsunami.
• “How to create Excel User Defined Functions in F# and make them immediately available to Excel” by Tsunami.
• “Rhino 3D with F#” by Tsunami.
• “Linq to Hadoop with Type Providers” by Tsunami.
• “FSUG Meeting with Tomas Petricek” (Tomas Petricek discusses Agents in F#)
• “Phil Trelford on F# Mocking with Foq“
• “Functional DSLs for Biocomputation” by Colin Gravill

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder posted “On F# code readability“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy wrote about “Upcoming WebSharper Changes“.
• Steffen Forkmann shared “License all the things with Portable.Licensing 1.0“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy announced “WebSharper 2.5.2-alpha on AppHarbor“.
• Simon Cousins blogged “Why bugs don’t like F#“.
• Steffen Forkmann posted “New tasks for building Xamarin Components in FAKE – F# Make“.
• Loic Denuziere announced “WebSharper for Windows 8 Desktop“.
• Michael Newton blogged “Coding Hygiene: Moving From Project References to NuGet Dependencies“.
• Scott Banwart posted “A ‘Hello World’ introduction to testing in F#“.
• Richard Dalton wrote “Bowling Game Kata in F#“.

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

• Xamarin Studio now has F# addin
• IntelliFactory is offerring free WebSharper licenses for MVP.
• Foq 0.8 was released.
• Canopy: F# web testing framework built on Selenium was presented.
• Ross McKinlay shared slides from “Microsoft Dynamics CRM & F#” talk.
• SharpDevelop 4.3 was released.

Videos

• “The F# 3.0 SQL Server Type Provider – Very Cool, and Very Useful” by Kit Eason.
• “F# magic” by Adam Granicz.
• “Domain Specific Languages in F#” by Tomas Petricek (slides and samples).
• “String Calculator TDD Kata With F# and NUnit” by Dave Fancher.

Blogs

• Lev Gorodinski wrote “Domain-Driven Design (DDD) With F# and EventStore: Projections“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “F# Image Blurrer“.
• Steve Gilham posted “FsCheck is great for for native code too!“.
• Igor Kulman wrote about “F# on Azure: using Table Storage for logging“.
• Yan Cui published “DynamoDB.SQL – version 1.1.0 released“.
• Adil Akhter shared “SPOJ 346. Bytelandian Gold Coins (COINS) | with Dynamic Programming and F#“.
• Adil Akhter shared “SPOJ 8545. Subset Sum (Main72) | with Dynamic Programming and F#“.
• Don Syme posted “Thursday at F# London Meetup: The F# 3.0 SQL Server Type Provider – Very Cool, and Very Useful, plus F# 3.0 Dynamics CRM Type Provider“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “ServiceStack: New API – F# Sample (Web Service out of a web server)“.
• Yan Cui posted “F# — XmlSerializer, Record types and [CLIMutable]“.
• Colin Bull presented “F# IKVM Type Provider“.
• Sebastian Waksmunzki wrote “F# and MS CRM 2011 follow-up“
• Dave Fancher posted “Custom Dark Colors for F# Depth Colorizer for VS2012“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “ServiceStack: F# Client Application“.
• Alea.cuBase shared “Segmented scan in warp with packed head flag“.
• F# team posted “The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider Sample: Static Parameters“.
• Ross McKinlay wrote “F# meets the Raspberry Pi“.
• Scott Wlaschin announced “Computation Expressions” series.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #8

Welcome to F# Weekly,

The greatest event of this week and maybe of the year is 2013 MVP Global Summit. But while our MVPs make history, the new portion of news from this past week is waiting for you =).

News

• Steffen Forkmann presented experimental F# 4.0 installer.
• Interesting white paper from MS Research about F# 3.0 type provider.
• Fmat Open Source Numerical Library for F# was presented. (available on NuGet)
• Video from Keith Battocchi’s “Systems Information Programming Made Simple with the F# WMI Provider sample” talk was shared.
• Fsharpx 1.7.8 with Microsoft Dynamics CRM type provider is now on NuGet.
• Screenshot of F# on Xamarin Studio.
• MonoDevelop 4.0 was released.
• Mono 3.0.4 is out!
• Xamarin 2.0 reviewed: iOS development finally comes to Visual Studio.

Blogs

• Lev Gorodinski wrote “Domain-Driven Design With F# and EventStore“.
• Filip Ekberg posted “Decompiling .NET Applications“.
• Daniel Mohl shared materials from “Building Better Web Apps with F#” talk.
• Gaston Hillar blogged “More Information-Rich Programming with F#“.
• Adil Akhter shared “Collatz Problem a.k.a. 3n+1 Problem“.
• Phil Trelford posted “Connect All The Things – MVP Summit 2013“.
• Phil Trelford published “F# Eye For The C# Guy“.
• Gary Evans wrote “Option pricing in F# using the Explicit Finite Difference method“.
• Simon Cousins blogged “Does the language you choose make a difference?“.
• Yan Cui wrote about “AOP – string interning with PostSharp attribute“.
• Colin Bull presented “F# end to end“.
• Gustavo Guerra posted “F#, Windows Phone 7 & Visual Studio 2012“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #7

Welcome to F# Weekly,

One more week passed and a new portion of F# Weekly is waiting to be read.

News

• Tomas Petricek shared materials from his talk “F# Agents“.
• Foq 0.7 is released with verification support & simplified setup for C# & F# via NuGet. (preview)
• Mathias Brandewinder shared a first screenshot of  his mini F# FSI IDE.
• “Identify Organisms from a Stream of DNA Sequences” has begun.
• Microsoft DevRadio: Learn, Create and Share with Try F#.

• ℋeatђer presented “Failess: F# to CSS compiler“.

• Happy Valentine’s Day from the Visual #FSharp Team!
• First IntelliFactory F# course at DUF is started.
• VCC: a mechanical verifier for concurrent C programs. Mostly written in F#.
• F# mode 0.7 for Emacs is available from MELPA now! Includes on-the-fly error highlighting.
• Robert Jeppesen presented “Reflenses“.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “K-Means clustering in F#“.
• Gaston Hillar posted “Information-Rich Programming With F# 3.0“.
• Phil Trelford wrote about “Mocking with Foq“.
• Michael Newton shared “Fake Part 2: Build and test“.
• Anh-Dung Phan presented “A comprehensive guide to F# Formatting Conventions“.
• Yan Cui published a talk “Builds Games in F#“.
• Michael Newton posted “Throttling the level of concurrency in F#“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “NLP: Stanford Named Entity Recognizer with F# (.NET)“.
• Visual Studio F# Team Blog shared “The F# 3.0 Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider Sample – Strongly-typed enterprise-scale customer data made simple“.
• Yan Cui wrote “Introduction to AWS SimpleWorkflow Extensions Part 3 – Parallelizing activities“.
• Adil Akhter shared “SPOJ 97. Party Schedule (PARTY) with F#“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #6

Welcome to F# Weekly,

Hey, new portion of F# stuff from this past week is already here! Savor these with a cup of coffee.

News

• Christoph Ruegg posted “Math.NET Numerics With Native Linear Algebra“.
• Don Syme looking for people with QuantLib & F# experience.
• Tim Robinson announced Vim autocompletion for F# as a part of fsharp-vim.

Blogs

• Donna Malayeri and Gordon Hogenson shared “Learn How to Create an Internet Game Using F#, C#, and ASP.NET“.
• Jack Fox posted “S.F. F# User Group: Working with Functional Data Structures, Bibliography“.
• Yan Cui blogged “Making Amazon SimpleWorkflow simpler to work with“.
• Don Syme wrote “F# + ServiceStack – F# Web Services on any platform in and out of a web server“.
• EDTECH posted “F# Promises a Big Return on Big Data“.
• Adil Akhter blogged “Project Euler 06. Sum square difference with F#“.
• {m}brace on Windows Azure – A distributed GREP algorithm
• Sergey Tihon wrote about “NLP: Stanford Parser with F# (.NET)“.
• Don Syme posted “Using a Java Framework with F#: The Stanford Parser for NLP“.
• Dave Thomas presented “MonoTouch and F# Part I“.
• QUANTALEA shared “Getting Started with Alea.cuBase“.
• QUANTALEA wrote “Alea.cuBase now available on NuGet Gallery“.
• Igor Kulman posted “Reading Excel sheets using F# without COM“.
• Richard Dalton wrote “Learning to think functionally – Unfolding Sequences“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Plot functions from F# to Excel“.
• Tomas Petricek shared “Upcoming F# talks and trainings (London, NYC & Boston)“
• Dave Thomas presented “MonoTouch and F# Part II“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “NLP: Stanford POS Tagger with F# (.NET)“.
• Yan Cui presented “Introduction to AWS SimpleWorkflow Extensions Part 1 – Hello World example“.
• Yan Cui presented “Introduction to AWS SimpleWorkflow Extensions Part 2 – Beyond Hello World“.
• Richard Dalton posted “C# to F# Interop – Sharing a Domain Model“.

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

• Free Alea.CUDA Licenses available for Participants of F# User Group Meetings Related to Alea.CUDA.
• New teaser of IntelliFactory CloudSharper was presented.
• TypeProvider opportunity alert!
• IronLua(Lua for .NET via F#) was announced.

Blogs

• Piet Amersfoort blogged “Windows Store Apps with F# (part 3) : Data Binding and MVVM“.
• Channel9 published “Getting sharp with F#“.
• Yin Zhu wrote about “A simple GUI tool to help find the right people“.
• Anton Kropp posted “K-means step by step in F#“.
• Saxon Matt wrote “Introducing the F# GitHub Api (Work in Progress)“.
• Piet Amersfoort blogged “Windows Store Apps with F# (part 4) : Collections“.
• Adil Akhter posted “SPOJ 6219. Edit Distance (EDIST) with F#“.
• Lev Gorodinski wrote “Subtleties of F# Currying, Partial Application and Eta-conversion“.
• “The 5 distributions of a Bayesian model as 5 probabilistic programs in F#” by Andy Gordon.
• Don Syme blogged “Twelve F# type providers in action“.
• Computerworld posted “Microsoft to big data programmers: Try F#“.
• Faisal Waris present “Unraveling the Mystery of Monads“.
• F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group: FunScript with Zach Bray.
• Zack Bray published “FunScript 2013 presentation“.
• Eirik Tsarpalis blogged “Serializing F# types“.
• Paul Roberts posted “Parsing Expression Grammar – part 3“.
• Jack Fox wrote about “F# Data Structure Libraries in FSharpx“.
• Paul Roberts presented “Tiny Basic using PEG and F#“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “FSharp.ML – industry needs. (Machine Learning for .NET)“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #4

Welcome to F# Weekly,

It was a really nice and full of news week. A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• http://www.tryfsharp.org/ v3.0 – a new interactive site for learning F# (Learn. Create. Explore.)
• Foq 0.6 is released. Typed mocking for F# & C# now with Strict & Loose mocking modes, also available via Nuget.
• IntelliFactory CloudSharper on Facebook (It needs your likes).
• Dave Thomas managed to get F# and MonoTouch playing together nicely on iPhone simulator.
• A new F# sample: Word Grid is F# sample that runs in Windows Azure.
• Mono 3.0.3 is released.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder posted “Still obsessing on FSI and Excel“.
• Paul Roberts wrote about “Parsing Expression Grammar – part 2“.
• The “Designing with types” series was shared by Scott XXX
• Michael Newton wrote “A short interlude into adaptive polling“.
• Tomas Petricek blogged “Announcing: Literate programming tools for F#“.
• Tomas Petricek shared “F# Script file: Side-by-side example“.
• Jack Fox blogged “A Unified Collection of Purely Functional List-like Data Structures“.
• Ashley Nathan Feniello posted “Programming is “Pointless”“.
• Lev Gorodinski wrote “Inverting Object-orientation With F# Discriminated Unions and Pattern Matching“.
• Yan Cui published “LINQ OrderBy – using Comparer<T>.Create and F#’s Object Expressions“.
• Piet Amersfoort blogged “Windows Store Apps with F# (part 1) : Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.“

• Piet Amersfoort blogged “Windows Store Apps with F# (part 2) : async/await“.

• Reto Matter posted “Functional Feed-forward Neural Networks, Part 2: Backpropagation Learning“.
• MSR paper “Fault Tolerance via Idempotence” by G Ramalingam and Kapil Vaswani.
• “Reverend Bayes, Meet Countess Lovelace: Machine Learning and Programming” by Andy Gordon.
• Steffen Forkmann wrote “Running FAKE targets from the command line“.
• Tao Liu posted “Generated Type Provider and Code Generation“.
• Mathias Brandewinder wrote “Testing and mocking your C# code with F#“.
• Phil Trelford blogged “Moq with F# 3“.
• Richard Dalton shared “Learning to think functionally – Currying“.
• Steffen Forkmann posted “Released new AssemblyVersion tasks for FAKE“.
• Dave Fancher blogged “Why F#?“.

A bit more about new Try F#:

• Don Syme wrote “Try F# – Learn, Create and Share F#, from your browser“.
• Visual Studio F# Team posted “Try F# 3.0 Launched Today!“.
• Dr Dobb’s posted “Microsoft Research Releases Newest Version Of Try F#“.
• Carl Nolan posted “Try F# 3.0 Released“.
• Pluralsight posted “Microsoft Research Wants You To “Try F#”“.
• Microsoft Research Connections posted “Try F#—Data Console to Big and Broad Data“

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

• TryF# CSV type provider was added to F# 3 Sample Pack.
• SharpXml(F# XML Serializer) now supports F# records, tuples and immutable lists.
• CSV provider in F# Data supports quoted values, other cultures and specifying # of rows for inference.
• fquanty gets bootstrapping! Examples for mean, std and VaR included.
• Prototype completion for F# in emacs is available.

Videos

• “Data exploration in the cloud with F#” by IntelliFactory.
• “Systems Information Programming Made Simple with the F# WMI Provider sample” by Keith Battocchi.
• “F# 3.0 and the Future of Information-Rich Functional Programming” by Don Syme.
• “F# Big Data Scripting” by Matthew Moloney.

Blogs

• Tao Liu wrote about “Generated Type Provider Sample Published on Codeplex“.
• Michael Newton blogged “Playing with error handling strategies“.
• Igor Kulman posted “Using Sublime Text 2 as F# REPL“.
• Lincoln Atkinson presented “Tracking a new year’s resolution with F# and FSharpChart“.
• Dave Fancher blogged “F# Discriminated Unions“.
• Michael Newton wrote “In Which Our Intrepid Author De-sugars a Monad by Hand“.
• Dave Fancher wrote about “F# Enumerations“.
• Paul Roberts posted “Parsing Expression Grammar – part 1“.
• Steffen Forkmann blogged “Release of the WMI type provider on nuget“.
• Michael Newton wrote about “Corrected Error Handling Computational Expression“.
• Anton Kropp presented “Tracing computation expressions“.
• Don Syme blogged about “F# Emacs Integration“.
• Jack Fox published “Comparing F# Queues“.
• Lee Stott posted “Interested in Functional Programming Try F#“.
• Dave Fancher blogged “Revisiting String Distances“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #2