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

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Two free slots in F# Advent Calendar in English 2015!
• Ionide-fsharp is now in VS Code (with FAKE and Paket plugins). Join the Ionide family and contribute!
• New free ebook: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with F# by Tomas Petricek
• Xebec is coming!
• Mono 4.2 is now in the stable channel
• Machine Learning in Action – in F#
• How does Paket stack up against NuGet 3’s project.json?
• Vote if you like: Octopus Deploy – Allow the use of F# script (.fsx) in place of Powershell/ScriptCS
• Test-Driven Development with F# is free with VS Enterprise
• We’re looking for someone who volunteers to update FAKE’s NUnit helper to v3
• F# FunScript Office365 Add-in

Videos/Presentations

• Lean and Functional Programming – Bryan Hunter
• Types + Properties = Software – Mark Seemann
• Panel Discussion Code Mesh (Tony Hoare, Don Syme, Joe Armstrong, Josh Watzman)
• Welcome/Introduction and Doing Data Science with FsLab – Tomas Petricek, David Stephens, Brody Berg
• Crunching through big data with MBrace, Azure and F# – Mathias Brandewinder
• Functional Geekery Episode 35 – Rachel Reese
• Getting Started with Visual F# – David Stephens
• Generative Art – Functional Vilnius 2015 – Phillip Trelford

Blogs

• Understanding Parser Combinators – Scott Wlaschin
• Implementing F# interactive intellisense support for Visual Studio – Aleksey Vlasenko
• Npm build with F# FAKE – Tomas Jansson
• T4 Generates my business objects for me revisited with F# – Brandon D’Imperio
• A Few Hours With….F# – Bear & Hammer
• F# + ML |> MVP Summit – Tomas Petricek
• Kafka/Visual Studio Code/OSS… Distributed Consensus, Things to Learn – Composite Code
• Release of MBrace 1.0, a Distributed Programming Framework for .NET – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Generic lenses for F# record-types – Dominic Graefen
• F# tackles James Bond – Evelina Gabasova
• Constructing lenses using quotations -Mark Watts
• F# Friday – Array.splitAt – Brad Collins

F# vNext News 

• F# Open Standup: Monday 11/23/2015 — 10:00 AM pt 10:30 AM pt
• The MSDN overview docs for the F# language are now open source and accepting pull requests
• F# for CoreCLR Status
• Merged: Migrate Cambridge test suite (tests/fsharp) runner to NUnit
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Add function parameter default value shorthand

Open source projects

• freya – functional-first web stack, including an HTTP finite state machine, built on top of OWIN
• Exira.SimpleHttpServer – a simple HTTP server to serve static files
• Exira.StaticMailer – a REST endpoint running in a Windows Service to enable static sites to easily send mail.
• fscontrol – An F# base library with standard ad-hoc polymorphic functions over primitive types
• mitls-fstar – TLS implemented in F*
• telefone – Telegram bot library in F#
• Fun Basic
• vim-fsharp – F# bindings for vim
• MBrace.AWS – MBrace runtime implementation targeting Amazon Web Services

New Releases

• FSharp.Control.AsyncLazy 1.2.0
• SwaggerProvider 0.1.1-beta
• GeographicLib.FSharp 0.0.151117.45
• FSharp.RDF 1.1.97
• Akka.NET .FSharp.API.Extensions 0.1.0.2
• MBrace.Azure v 1.1
• FSharp.Dnx 1.0.0-beta1
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.7
• MBrace.Azure 1.1.4
• FSharp.IO.FileSystem 1.1.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #46

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Advent Calendar in English 2015 is filled!
• New FsReveal version (based on awesome reveal.js 3.2) is out
• Microsoft Azure Data Lake: Native support for F# with USQL
• Take the time to try F# Docker image
• A good article for choosing the right ORM
• Demo from Tomas Petricek Pluralsight course on F# and Type Providers, running live.
• Working self-contained getting-started sample for Suave Web Scripting
• New Book: F# for Machine Learning Paperback by Sudipta Mukherjee
• F# Script that creates word cloud
• Check out project teddy, it’s a talking teddy bear using ML, F# and Win10 IoT core

Videos/Presentations

• Coreclr F# Compiler building Hello, World on linux – Kevin Ransom
• A simple demo of Suave on the coreclr running on linux – Kevin Ransom
• MBrace: REPL driven scalable computation – Eirik Tsarpalis
• F# for Industrial Applications – Worth a Try? – Daniel Egloff
• Practical Machine Learning in F# by Sudipta Mukherjee at Functional Conf 15 (slides)
• Second FSharp.TV Hangout on Air
• Functional Programming; What? Why? When? – Robert C Martin
• 7 ineffective coding habits many F# programmers don’t have – Yan Cui (slides)

Blogs

• Archeological Semiotics: The Birth of the Pipeline Symbol, 1994 – Don Syme
• Options pricing in F# – Jan Fajfr
• Wonderland Katas, F# style – Mathias Brandewinder
• Simple Web API OWIN host using F# – Kevin Holditch
• How I learned to stop worrying and love the CI server – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
• F# Presentations at CodeMash 2016 – Craig Stuntz
• F# Community Hero – Dave Thomas
• Getting into FunScript – Mike Janger
• F# Friday – Seq.groupBy – Brad Collins
• Null has no type, but Maybe has – Mark Seemann
• Stateful Akka.NET actors with F# – Mark Watts
• Generic lenses for F# record-types – Dominic Graefen

F# vNext News 

• Open Standup for F# contributors and people interested in contributing: Monday 11/16/2015 10:00 -10:30 AM
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Add stable sort for Array module
  • Add “row polymorphism” aka “extensible records”
  • Lift parameter names from the callee

Open source projects

• soma – F# Sql Oriented MApping framework
• Exira.Route53Updater – a console application which updates a Route 53 record with the current EC2 hostname
• ges-runner – Exira.EventStore.Runner is a wrapper that uses Topshelf to run EventStore as a Windows Service
• fsharp.interop.dynamic – portable class library dynamic operator using the DLR
• ionide-fsharp – Set of Atom plugins for F# development
• TraktorAutoNextSong – A small tool for automatically finding next song to play when DJing using TraktorPro2
• FSharp.Automaton – port of automaton
• modelmod – A system for modifying art in games
• codesize – Code size visualization tool with PDB/ELF/Mach-O support
• argu – A declarative CLI argument/XML configuration parser for F#
• visualfsharpdocs – Visual F# Tools documentation repo

New Releases

• MBrace 1.0
• FAKE 4.9.1
• FsCheck 2.2.2
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.10.10.0
• SwaggerProvider 0.0.4-alpha
• Hornbill 1.3.4
• FSharp.Automaton 0.2.0
• FSharp.Control.AsyncLazy 1.0.0
• FSharpx.Reflection 1.9.7
• fsharp-mode (20151114.1700) — F# mode for Emacs
• Persimmon.Dried 1.1.0
• WebSharper 3.5.16

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #45

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The last chance to jump into F# Advent Calendar in English 2015 and open it together with Rachel Reese.
• Proof of concept for running Suave on Docker with Paket.
• “Accessing Data with #fsharp Type Providers” is now live on Pluralsight
• SharePoint Add-ins in F# using WebSharper UI.Next
• Lots of F# Enhancements in Preview Release: Xamarin Studio 6.0
• It would be great if people could update http://fsharp.org/use/linux with info on F# + Docker, or add a new guide here http://fsharp.org/use/Docker.
• Towards an HDF5 type provider in FSharp.Data.Toolbox
• Paket reached 300k downloads!
• Report: Jet Lands $500 Million In Funding From Fidelity
• Jet.com to Raise Funds Valuing the Amazon Rival at $1.5 Billion

Videos/Presentations

• F# Cloud Programming – Real World Topics – Yi Wei
• Machine learning with F# and Accord.NET – Alena Dzenisenka
• Iterazione di Game of Life in Fsharp – Tony X
• “Putting fun into data analysis with F#” talk at Oredev 2015 -Evelina Gabasova
• Patterns and practices for real-world event-driven microservices – Rachel Reese
• Real-time democratizing of event-driven big data – Rachel Reese

Blogs

• Creating a Code Analyzer using F# – John Koerner
• 2D Character Design With F# And GDI+ – Mohammad Shuvo
• Exercises in Programming Style–Infinite Mirror – Yan Cui
• Options pricing in F# – Jan Fajfr
• Automating Xamarin Builds With FAKE – Part 3: Building And Running Unit Tests – Jon Wood
• Writing Xamarin.Forms Apps in F# – Сharles Petzold
• Data-aware workbooks and client-side data access with WebSharper.Data – Adam Granicz
• Exercises in Programming Style–Kick Forward – Yan Cui
• F# Friday – Code That Looks Like Math – Brad Collins
• F# Coding Dojo – Fractal Forest – Raouf Chebri
• Lunchtime LINQ Challenge #2 Answers in F# – Mark Heath
• XPlot ‘hello world’ – Using Google Charts – Leif Battermann
• Магия треугольника Серпинского в функциональном стиле -Митя Сошников

F# vNext News 

• How to contribute to F#? Add more linters to F# PowerTools.
• Samuel Bronson is taking the scalpel to the F# build scripts, wish him luck and encouragement here
• Paddy McDonald is migrating Visual F# unit tests to Xunit 2.0 so they will work on coreclr
• Huge effort by Enrico Sada in porting the main F# tests from scripts to NUnit & then xUnit.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Allow upcast in type test pattern (inside computation expression)
  • add Async.Choice to FSharp.Core

Open source projects

• zerotonine – a tool for maintaining .NET Assembly versions across multiple files
• fpworks – repository hosting the open-source Nu Game Engine and related project
• prajna – a distributed functional programming platform for interactive big data analytics and cloud service building
• RouteProvider – a type provider for web routing
• exchange2crm – Sync.Today Lite for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Import Office 365 Exchange Contact to Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Hopac – a Concurrent ML style concurrent programming library for F#
• FSharp.NeuralNetwork – a simple neural network framework for F#
• SketchBot – a robot of sorts to drive an Etch-a-sketch
• ArithmeticEvaluation – very nice example of using F# fslex and fsyacc
• cantos – F#st and furious static website generator
• clonalanalysis – Bayesian estimation of parameter likelihood for a simple model of clonal development
• MicroCS – Micro C# Compiler
• visualfsharp-docker – Visual F# on CoreCLR
• fsautocomplete – F# compiler service API exposed via a console application
• FsMachines – a stream processing library for F#

New Releases

• FAKE 4.8 with RoboCopy and npm support
• FsCheck 2.2.1
• FsUnit 1.4.0
• Gluon 1.0.0
• F# Azure Storage Type Provider 1.4.0
• FeldSpar Test Framework for F# 1.1.0
• FSharp.RDF 1.1.95
• FSharp.ORM 1.1.0
• Suave 0.33.0
• SwaggerProvider 0.0.2-alpha

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #44