Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# is now available in .NET Fiddle (Live Validation, IntelliSense, Share and Collaborate). Try F# on any device!
• F# plugin for Light Table was announced.
• A new site “Community for F#” was published.
• FSharp.Configuration was announced (collection of Type Providers used for project configuration). Look at and jump in!
• Meet a new project “Excel Financial Functions” under fsprojects.
• Taha Hachana presented a search engine for looking up the arguments of R functions when using RProvider.
• VegaHub was published on NuGet with new docs.
• Latest beta version of FSharp.Formatting uses the new simpler compiler services API(FSharp.Compiler.Service). Check it out and report any issues!
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.11 is on NuGet! Do not miss a new sample – Compiler Services: Project Analysis.
• ExtCore 0.8.40 was released! (Includes significant performance improvements for HashMap & HashSet)
• Both Kiev and Lviv hosted F# events last week.
• Microsoft Search Scientist declares that F# is great for data science scripting.
• Google glass C#/F# SDK was presented by Xamarin.
• A new version of SqlCommandProvider was released with AllParametersOptional config property.

Video/Presentations

• “SQL Provider” by Ross McKinlay. (slides)
• “FCell 2.0 Demo” by StatFactory. (Combining F# with Excel to get Async UDFs, Object Handlers and Type Providers).
• “Introduction to F#” by César López-Natarén.
• “Haskell vs. F# vs. Scala” by Prabhat Totoo, Pantazis Deligiannis, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl. (read more)

Blogs

• Daniel Mohl wrote “A Project Template Wizard Via NuGet“.
• Jamie Dixon posted “Traffic Stop Disposition: Classification Using F# and KNN“.
• Steffen Forkmann announced “FSharpx.Collections 1.9 released“.
• Scott Wlaschin blogged “Commentary on ‘Roman Numerals Kata with Commentary‘”.
• Jean-Claude Razafindrakoto wrote “Data frame : the basic data structure that any data scientist should master“.
• Steffen Forkmann announced “FSharp.Configuration 0.1 released“.
• Cameron Taggart posted “SourceLink.Fake available“.
• Ross McKinlay shared “Visualizing LINQ with GraphViz“.
• James D’Angelo wrote “JSON Web Token (JWT) with Simple.Web“.
• Juan M Gómez blogged “Using FSharp with OrchardCMS“.
• Ollie Riches wrote about “Simple F# REPL in WPF – part 4“.
• Mathias Brandewinder presented “Version 0.1 of Charon, a F# Random Forest“.
• Liam McLennan posted “Applying Functional Programming to .net Consulting Projects“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “F# Kung Fu #3: Exceptions recap“.

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

• Now you have an ability to subscribe to F# Weekly by email.
• You can join F# community on Gittip right now!
• On the next week .NET Fiddle will release a new version with F# integration.
• Learn more about the FSharp.Compiler.Service project and follow @FSCompService.
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.3-alpha is now on NuGet.
• Fantomas v1.0.5 was released with full F# 3.1 support, Mono compatibility, various improvements and bug fixes.
• F# code formatting is coming soon to Xamarin Studio!
• FrankFs just turned 2.0.0! Check out the new and improved docs.
• Yan Cui introduced log4net.Kinesis, a log4net appender for Amazon Kinesis.
• Rare event: Bug was found in F# compiler.
• FAKE needs a cool logo. Any ideas?
• Apparently, Don Syme is less an F# aficionado than Tomas Petricek.
• New Functional South Coast (Southampton) user group was registered.
• There are plenty of ways to join or contribute to WebSharper.
• Love F# and Sublime Text? Philip David Harvey needs help finishing his F# autocomplete plugin.
• Stanford CoreNLP for .NET was updated up to v3.3.1.
• New version of LinqOptimizer 0.4.8 is on NuGet (C# and F# versions)
• ExtCore 0.8.40 was released (Including significant performance improvements for HashMap & HashSet).
• New F# code sample was posted on Rosetta Code.
• An onsite training course “Functional Programming with F# .NET Training Course” is available from JJB International.
• James Freiwirth shared PerfectShuffle.OAuth (A simple OAuth 2.0 implementation)
• Ollie Riches works on Simple WPF F# Repl.
• Vasily Kirichenko works on YamlTypeProvider.
• Light Table is open source and ready for F# integration.
• Interested in AutoCAD development with F#? Read these.

Blogs

• Phil Trelford posted “Small Basic Compiler“.
• Jamie Dixon blogged:
  • “Setting up an OData Service on WebAPI2 to be used by F# Type Providers“.
  • “Traffic Stop Analysis Using F#“.
• Visual Studio FSharp Team shared “Seattle user group, Feb 13: F# on iOS with Xamarin Studio and Mac“
• Tomas Petricek blogged “Coeffects: The next big programming challenge“.
• Jack Fox wrote about “Transparent Heterogeneous Parallel Async with F#“.
• Phil Trelford posted “Extending Small Basic with Function Procedures“.
• Michael Newton wrote “Type Provider ProTip“.
• Sergey Tihon announced a new service “Subscribe to F# Weekly by Email“.
• Gordon Hogenson prepared “Excel automation in F#” links collection.
• Jeffrey Sax wrote “Data Frame Library Preview“.
• Terje Tyldum posted “F# charting challenge“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “F# Kung Fu #2: Custom Numeric Literals“.
• Dawid Kowalski posted “F#, Deedle and Computational Investing“
• James D’Angelo wrote “Simple.Web F# Project Template Updates“.
• Dave Fancher posted “The Book of F#: Early Access!“
• Chao-Jen Chen blogged “F#: Connect to InteractiveBrokers via ActiveX“.
• Yan Cui write “Filbert v0.2.0 – performance improvement on decoding“.

FsAdventJP

• ImmutableArray in F#

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

• Yeppp! is a high-performance mathematical library with .NET (C#,F#) support.
• BayardRock presented FSharpWeb (F# intellisense over SignalR or WebAPI using the ACE editor).
• A new book “F# for Quantitative Finance Paperback” was out.
• F# climbed from position 45 up to 16 in one year in the TIOBE index.
• F# 3.1.1 is already here.
• Potentially F# Language Spec may become a part of fsharp compiler repository.
• FSharp.Management is officially released on NuGet.
• Kunjan Dalal and Daniel Mohl published a new VS template “F# ServiceStack“.
• Some small bug fixes in FSharp.ProjectTemplate
• “Recursd: A Functional Programming Conference” is coming.
• Track your GitHub repositories with Google Analytics.
• Nathan Brixius (previously of Microsoft Solver Foundation) has now joined FrontlineSolver.
• F# Agents and RabbitMQ are a powerful combination.

Video/Presentations

• “Swarm: Distributed Computation in the Cloud” by Ian Clarke.

Blogs

• Sergey Tihon posted “Twitter Pulse #fsharp 2013“.
• Steve Gilham shared “An introduction to Functional Programming in F# — Part 5: Objects and Exceptions“.
• Richard Minerich wrote “My 2013 F# Year in Review“.
• James D’Angelo posted “Simple.Web F# Helpers“.
• Karl-Johan Nilsson wrote about “Reflections on Code2013“.
• Jamie Dixon blogged “Correlation Between Recruit Rankings and Final Standings in Big Ten Football“.
• Daniel Mohl wrote “Simple.Web and ServiceStack Templates“.
• Daniel Mohl shared “My 3 Most Viewed Blog Posts of 2013“.
• Don Syme posted slides for “Succeeding with Functional-First Programming in Finance”. (video)
• Don Syme announced “Applications for Researcher and Postdoc positions at Microsoft Research“.
• Yan Cui wrote that “DynamoDB.SQL 2.0.0 is out!“.
• Cameron Taggart posted “Accessing TFS and Visual Studio Online from F#“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “NDepend for F# code or FSharp.Compiler.Service ‘code review’“.
• Karlkim Suwanmongkol wrote “Add Code Syntax Highlighting to your Ghost blogging site“.
• Phil Trelford posted “Small Basic Interpreter“.
• Isaac Abraham blogged “Correlating emails and football matches“.
• Mathias Brandewinder wrote about “year ++ 2013: my crazy year with F#“.

FsAdventJP

• F# on Mac

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #52

Dear friends, 

I want to say thank you to all of you. Thank you to everyone who have been with us all this year and read F# Weekly. Thanks to everyone who blogged about F#, contributed to F# projects and wrote tons of awesome source code and documentations. Thanks to everyone who made a lot of awesome F# talks this year and dramatically improved F# public presence. Guys, you are awesome!

Last portion of news from 2013:

News

• “F# Compiler & Interactive Services“(codename Foslyn) were released!!!
• New Stanford NLP for .NET site was released.
• “Try F#—Data Console to Big and Broad Data” is the most readable blog of Microsoft Research Connections!
• Need a catchy name for your F# project? Check out this …
• FSharp.Management 0.1.0-alpha is out. (Now it is a part of FsProjects)
• TsunamiIDE proposed to embed F# into your blog or website today with Cloud Tsunami.
• FsMocks is here! (F# mock library based on Rhino.Mocks)
• raml.org is a new Type Provider challenge.
• Will Smith works with MvvmCross on F# (WPF test app).
• CodeMaid writes that they support F#.
• “New Angular.js Option in the F#/C# MVC 4 SPA Project Template” is one of the most viewed posts in Daniel Mohl blog in 2013.
• New F# book in German: Learn F#, Kata by Kata, from Ralf Westphal.

Blogs

• Ross McKinlay blogged “SQL Provider – new stuff including PostgreSQL support and option types!“.
• Tomas Petricek posted “Advent Art：北斎の絵を生成する“.
• Jamie Dixon wrote about “Screen Scraping College Football Statistics“.
• Dmitry Sevastianov wrote “Defuzzification“
• James D’Angelo posted:
  • “Simple.Web F# Project Template – Part 1“.
  • “Simple.Web F# Project Template – Part 2“.
  • F# Simple.Web Visual Studio template
• Sergey Tihon blogged “Twitter Followers Map with RProvider“.
• Chris Skardon wrote “Using Neo4j with F# – Cypher 2.0“.
• Natallie Baikevich posted “Log(music) with Undertone“.
• Ollie Riches blogged “Simple F# REPL in WPF – part 3“.

FsAdventJP

• Fortran & F# : The beginning…
• Excel + R Random Forests (classification & regression)
• F# rules the world

That’s all for now.  Happy New Year and see you in the New 2014 Year!

Previous F# Weekly edition – #51

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New WebSharper site is finally out with new samples: HighCharts, D3js, O3D and etc.
• FAKE 2.4 was released.
• WebSharper 2.5 was released.
• Michael Newton announced FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack.
• Steffen Forkmann announced FSharp.Management (FileSystem, Registry, WMI and PowerShell).
• F# compiler & interactive services (codename Foslyn) now have basic documentation!
• TahaHachana announced FsPlot (interactive data visualization library for F# using HTML5/JavaScript).
• Preview F# support at Xamarin!
• ExtCore 0.8.38 was released.
• Learn how Microsoft and partners are using F# for Spatial Data Research Software (read more).

Video/Presentations

• “F# type provider for Amazon S3” by Yan Cui.
• “Expression Oriented Programming with F#” by Robert Pickering.
• “Episode 7: The F# is for Frank Krueger“
• “Dependent Type Providers” by David Raymond Christiansen.
• “Effective Quotation – Relating approaches to language-integrated query” by James Cheney, Sam Lindley, Gabriel Radanne and Philip Wadler.
• “On Building Software” with Bob Martin.
• “Deconstructing Functional Programming” by Gilad Bracha.

Blogs

• Daniel Mohl updated “Adding New Items to a Pure F# ASP.NET MVC/Web API Project“.
• Mike Harris posted “Living with Function Programming OR Unit Testing F# with FsUnit“.
• Ollie Riches blogged:
  • “Simple F# REPL in WPF – part 1“.
  • “Simple F# REPL in WPF – part 2“.
• Karl-Johan Nilsson wrote “How Agents Fail“.
• Victor Baybekov wrote about “Monte Carlo Pi“.
• Ayende Rahien posted “What about F# collections?“.
• Jamie Dixon blogged “F# and Monopoly Simulation Redux“.
• Steffen Forkmann posted “Microsoft Dynamics NAV type provider“.
• Daniel Mohl wrote “Getting Started with Azure, Node.js, and FogJS on Windows“.
• Krzysztof Cieślak blogged “F# Type Inference“.
• James D’Angelo shared “Pure F# ASP.NET Web Applications and Simple.Web“.
• Kit Eason posted “What to do if you ‘just don’t get’ F#“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “F# Kung Fu #1: Mastering F# Script references“.
• Dave Fancher wrote about “Fibonacci Sequence“.
• Gene Belitski posted “Quieting FSI output“.

FsAdventJP

• Thoughts about software design with F#
  
• OCaml and F#
• F# unique features
• Type first programming
• F# compiler for arithmetic expressions
• Let’s play with Deedle
• FParsec and parser combinators
• F# implementation of barrage description language BulletML
• Mastering Units of Measure
• F# pattern matching for command-line arguments
• QuichRun: F# in Vim
• Functions and F# expressions

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #50

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# jumped to 20th place of TIOBE index.
• Doing F# in free time? Start a new open source project from FSharp.ProjectScaffold template!
• New (version 4.0.4) fszmq is released with shiny new website (fszmq has been officially accepted into the ZeroMQ community organization).
• Phillip Trelford presented Resource File Type Provider (BitBucket repo).
• Steffen Forkmann presented DynamicsNAVProvider.
• Yan Cui presented Amazon S3 Type Provider.
• Ross McKinlay presented new SQL Provider.
• New FsPickler performance test results became available.
• LinqOptimizer 0.4.1 is on NuGet for F# and C#.
• FsLab is not a myth anymore!
• C# 6.0 looks more and more like F# with nulls.
• With NAudio, F# and Excel Kit Eason can produce a graph of what a plucked guitar string is doing.
• New features for Azure type provider are welcome.
• WebSharper 2.5 is available on NuGet.
• Canopy v0.9.0 was released.
• F# MVC 5 project template already available.

Video/Presentations

• “Parallel Thinking” by Guy E. Blelloch
• “Doing Data Science with F#” by Tomas Petricek.

Blogs

• Nikos Baxevanis posted “Semantic Equality Comparison in F#“.
• Daniel Mohl wrote about “A Few Other Template Additions and Changes of Interest“.
• Ross McKinlay blogged “The Erasing SQL type provider (codename John)“.
• Dmitry Sevastianov wrote “Simple bond valuation“.
• Jamie Dixon posted:
  • “F# > C# when doing math“.
  • “The Big Ten and F#“.
• Tomas Petricek wrote “Understanding the world with F#“.
• Michał Łusiak posted “Using redis with F# on Windows“.
• Craig Stuntz blogged “Let’s Build a Compiler… In F#!“.
• Steve Gilham shared “An introduction to Functional Programming in F# — Part 2: Lexers and Parsers“.
• Don Syme wrote “New Visual F# Templates for ASP.NET, Web API, MSTest and Nancy Now Available“.
• Maxime Rouiller published “Community Update (2013/12/12) – Static files in #OWIN, #Fsharp templates and more as well as One #ASPNET“.
• gab_km posted “Let MailboxProcessor Act“.
• Simon Dickson blogged “Nancy + F# = Fancy“.
• Ross McKinlay wrote “SqlProvider : SQLite support (experimental)“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #49

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• First-class F# ASP.NET web templates are now available in VisualStudio.
• F# web templates for NancyFx via SideWaffle are now available!
• LinqOptimizer 0.3.8 is on NuGet.
• Intellisense on symbols is working is coming soon in Xamarin Studio.
• Pre-Alpha version of Vega Chart VS plugin is available here.
• Which F# community project has the best logo?
• 25 years of CPU work done in 3 days on medical research gene mapping using the power of Azure & F#.
• Support for untyped results (Map<string,obj> as a row type) in SqlCommandProvider was released.
• Foq 1.4 (mocking library for F#) was published on NuGet.

Video/Presentations

• “Understanding the World with F#” by Tomas Petricek.
• “F# in social gaming” by Yan Cui.
• “Domain Driven Design with the F# type System — NDC London 2013” by Scott Wlaschin.
• “モナドハンズオン前座” by bleis tift.

Blogs

• Daniel Mohl posted “New F# Web App Item Templates“.
• Jamie Dixon wrote about “F# and SignalR Stock Ticker: Part 2“.
• Daniel Mohl wrote “A New F# ASP.NET MVC 5 and Web API 2 Project Template“.
• Matthew Moloney blogged “Inter Exchange Bitcoin Arbitrage (Excel Dashboard with FCell)“.
• gab_km shared “MailboxProcessor に処理をさせよう“.
• Steve Gilham posted “An introduction to Functional Programming in F# — Part 1 : Functional Programming via circuits“.
• JetBrains blogged “Getting to Know Dmitri Nesteruk: Quant Finance and Developer Tools“.
• Richard Minerich shared “IPython notebook backed by an F# kernel“.
• Michael Newton posted “Type Providers From the Ground Up“.
• Simon Dickson wrote about “Owin: The Myth, the Monad“.
• Scott Wlaschin posted “Domain Driven Design“.
• The Swedish Coder shared “One hour a day 118: Podcast on F#“.

• Don Syme blogged “Slides for “Making Magic with F# Type Providers” at NDC London“.

• Keith Bloom wrote about “F# in Finance conference“.

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# 3.1 Compiler/Library Code Drop was announced!
• Don Syme presented Xenomorph Type Provider.
• FsProjects(F# Community Space for incubating open community projects) was formed.
• New release of SqlCommandProvider and docs.
• F# binding auto-complete running in SublimeText 3.
• All existing StanfordNLP NuGet packages were updated up to v3.3.0.
• FSharp.Owin has a new name – Dyfrig.
• Use F# in Excel without Tsunami! Code Editor is now part of FCell!
• Simple web servers with Suave.
• New F# introductory programming class to be taught at Bellevue College starting 1/25.
• New cross-functional (F#, Haskell, …) meetup group was formed in Copenhagen.
• Ryan Riley ‏is working on a big change for Frank-fs and would appreciate any feedback.
• Which F# community project has the best logo? Vote by replying to this tweet.

Video/Presentations

• “Reasonable Code with F#” by Mike Falanga
• “Simpler Data Access and Smarter Calculations” by Paulmichael Blasucci.
• “Intro to F# pattern matching” by Stephen Olsen.
• “Using F# to change the way we work” by Jon Harrop.
• “F# in Finance Tour” by Phil Trelford
• “F# and Financial Data Making Data Analysis Simple” by Tomas Petricek.
• “F# in the cloud” by Yan Cui.
• “Calling and extending the F# compiler” by Don Syme & Tomas Petricek.

Blogs

• Xenomorph blogged “Putting the F# in Finance with TimeScape“.
• Cyan By Fuchsia posted “FsUnit and Visual Studio 2013 “Could not load file or assembly ‘FSharp.Core, Version=4.0.0.0 …’“.
• Jamie Dixon wrote about “F# and SignalR Stock Ticker Example“.
• Vasily Kalugin wrote “Silverlight F# (Fsharp + XAML) application. Access to WebCam using only F#“.
• Don Syme wrote “Announcing the F# 3.1 Compiler/Library Code Drop (from the Visual F# Tools Team at Microsoft)“
• Don Syme blogged “Putting the F# in Finance with Xenomorph TimeScape: A World of Financial Data at your Fingertips, Strongly Tooled and Strongly Typed“.
• Don Syme blogged “How to contribute to the F# support in Xamarin Studio, Emacs and more“.
• Don Syme blogged “Microsoft’s “F# in Finance” in London – Initial Report“.
• Christoph Rüegg wrote “Test Your C# or F# Library on Mono With Vagrant“.
• Daniel Mohl posted “Adding New Items to a Pure F# ASP.NET MVC/Web API Project“.
• http://www.geekswithblogs.net published “Running Session Scripts with F#“.
• Antonio Parata wrote about “Words permutation for passwords generation“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #47