Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Deedle (Data manipulation library for F# and C# inspired by Pandas) was announced!
• PCL and .NET NuGet Libraries are now enabled for Xamarin!
• Try Deedle in 10 minutes using F#!
• Http.fs (An HTTP client library for F#) was announced.
• GestIT is growing and becoming a great runtime support for F#.
• F# community will be presenting at the MVP Showcase, Sunday, November 17!
• User voice for F# Binding! Please vote for what features you would like to see.
• Happy anniversary – 4 years of NashFP!
• Some updates in F# fashion collection.
• RProvider v1.0.5 published with OS X and Linux support and some fixes.
• Reminder: If you’re using F# in production please add a testimonial to fsharp.org/testimonials.
• Alea.cuBase 1.2.680 was released.
• Xamarin Studio 4.2 is out!
• Presto.io is a new Type Provider candidate.
• FAKE support MSTest from now.
• SqlCommandTypeProvider 1.0.12 was released.
• FSharpPlus (Extensions for F#) was pre-released.
• Windows Azure Type Provider was published on NuGet.

Video/Presentations

• “Deedle Effective Data and Time Series Analysis” by Tomas Petricek and Howard Mansell. (samples)
• “Discovering Type Providers in F# 3.0” by Rachel Reese.
• “Concurrent Applications with F# Agents” by Rachel Reese.
• “BDD with `tick spec`” by Phil Trelford.
• “Machine Learning: Progressive F#” by Matthew Moloney.
• “MBrace: Cloud Computing with Monads” by {m}brace.
• “Business Intelligence via Natural Language Search (Designing a Query Engine for Capital Markets Data)” by Joel Bjornson.

Blogs

• Gustavo Guerra blogged “Higher Order List Operations Across Languages“.
• Daniel Mohl posted “A Few Changes to the F#/C# MVC 4 Project Template“.
• Jamie Dixon wrote “2013 TRINUG Code Camp“.
• Grant Crofton posted “Hello Neurons – ENCOG Neural Network XOR example in F#“
• Richard Dalton wrote about “Enriching Data with F#“.
• César López-Natarén blogged “Managing Git workflow with MindTouch PullRequestService“.
• Don Syme posted ““F# in Finance” – London – Monday, 25 Nov 2013“.
• Grant Crofton blogged “Web requests in F# now easy! Introducing Http.fs“.
• Don Syme posted “Announcing Deedle – Data Frame and Time Series Package for Exploratory Data Programming with F# and C#“.
• Larry O’Brien blogged “F# iOS Program: 39 lines of code“.
• Onorio Catenacci wrote “I Am Tired Of Swimming Against The Current“.
• Ademar Gonzalez wrote about “Hosting a static website with Suave“.
• Lincoln Atkinson blogged “Selecting a random element from a linked list – 3 approaches in F#“.
• David Tchepak posted “More freedom from side-effects (F#)“.
• Nat Friedman posted “Microsoft and Xamarin Partner Globally to Help You Build Great Apps“.
• Michał Łusiak wrote about “Lots of love for F# during Øredev“.
• Faisal Waris shared “Performance Improvements From 2010 – 2013 (due to hardware and .Net improvements)“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #45

F# seriously damages team productivity. I keep shouting “Come look at this” and they do.

— Richard Dalton (@richardadalton) November 5, 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New to F#? Post your code to the CodeReview SE for feedback!
• Try Joinads (F# research extension for concurrent, parallel and asynchronous programming) right in your browser.
• New thread with discussion of the potential F# new features.
• Mark Watts works on Slumber (An F# REST framework).
• Open source StaticSiteGenerator (made in F#) by Thomas Hilbert.
• Bunch of improvements were pushed in the R type provider.
• Example of SignalR with F-Sharp (and Silverlight 5).
• F# mode for Emacs on MELPA.
• F# SoftRenderer is F# 3D soft engine.
• FSharpTest v1.1 (Project template) was released.

Video/Presentations

• “F# Eye for the C# guy – Øredev 2013” by Phil Trelford. (slides)
• “F# R Type Provider Demo” by Mathias Brandewinder with bonus French voice-over 🙂
• “F# for Trading – Øredev 2013” by Phil Trelford.
• “Functional Principles for OO” by Jessica Kerr.

Blogs

• Mikael Helldén posted “The Road Ahead“.
• Mikael Helldén wrote “Book review: Building Web, Cloud, and Mobile Solutions with F# by Daniel Mohl“.
• Daniel Mohl blogged “F# Web Programming Session (slides and examples) at Progressive F# Tutorials 2013“.

• Krzysztof Cieślak blogged:

  • “F# Foundation Series Introduction“.
  • “The basic syntax of F#“.
  • “F# vs C# – Simple Example“.
  • “F# vs C# – Quicksort“.
• Computer.org posted “Special Issue on New Directions in Programming Languages“.
• Daniel Mohl presented “A New Home for the F# Community Project Templates“.
• Jack Fox posted “FSharpTest: F# VS Test Project Template“.
• Tomas Petricek blogged “The F# Computation Expression Zoo (PADL’14)“.
• Richard Dalton wrote about “F# and Databases Part Deux (Parameters)“.
• Sergey Tihon posted “F# Interactive “branding”“.
• Phil Haack wrote “Dealing with Multiplatform Project Files“.
• Martin Trojer blogged “This year in F#“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #44

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FunScript v1.1b is out: 280+ #TypeScript 0.9 bindings on NuGet, better performance, reflection API and project template.
• Build.Tools project was announced.
• FShake – F# build tool from IntelliFactory.
• Taha Hachana shared “Navigation Within the Browser History“.
• New T-shirt in F# Fashion Collection by Robert Pickering.
• Octokit is now using FAKE for its build script.

Video/Presentations

• “FunScript” by Zach Bray.
• “Pacific Northwest Scala 2013 We’re Doing It All Wrong” by Paul Phillips
• MBrace: Cloud Computing with Monads
• A Study and Toolkit for Asynchronous Programming in C#

Blogs

• Martin Trojer shared “This year in F#“
• Michael Newton posted “To Infinity and Beyond“.
• Tomas Petricek blogged “Building great open-source libraries“.
• Scott Wlaschin wrote about “Working with non-monoids“.
• Mikael Helldén posted “ReSharper and F# project references“.
• Gustavo Guerra wrote “F# for Screen Scraping“.
• Michał Łusiak published “Progressive F# Tutorials in London“.
• ContingenciesOnline posted “A Sharp New Analytical Tool“.
• Natallie Baikevich blogged “Trying out Deedle with Bones and Regression“.
• Neil Danson wrote about “Desktop class performance on a mobile phone?“.
• Anthony Brown posted “Unable to copy file when compiling an F# project“.
• Annmarie Geddes Baribeau wrote “Discovering the Power of F#“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #43

Deer all,

A great thing happened this time one year ago – F# Weekly was born. It seems quite recently and at the same time was long ago. Many great things happened during this time, a lot of news were spread. I would like to invite you to feel the breath of nostalgia and look at first published weekly “F# Weekly #43, 2012“.

Thank you to all of you, for being with me all this time. F# Community is an excellent one, I am glad to be a part of it. You are awesome and it’s all thanks to you. Let’s make a small journey to the past and recall some news that occurred during this time.

Small F# time journey

• Visaul Studio 2013 was released with F# 3.1.
• Lots of new Type Providers were born.
• F# Community Affiliated Technical Groups come in sight.
• F# Community Projects were identified and some of them actually born during this year.
• F# Community was managed to collect great F# Testimonials.
• New F# User Groups appeared on the map.
• Excellent Expert F# 3.0 was published.
• F# became No. 26 on the latest TIOBE Index.
• Data Science is growing in F# (Fsharp.Data, RProvider, Deedle. Fsharp.Charting, VegaHub, Python Type Provider, Matlab Type Provider)
• F# fashion collection was arranged.
• fsharpforfunandprofit.com enriched with new gorgeous post series.
• Tsunami IDE, {m}-brace and tryfsharp.org v3.0 saw the light.
• Xamarin announced F# support.
• New thoughts and facts were established into “Why F#?“.

Of course, there happened much more than mentioned in the list. It is impossible to get all things in one small post. F# community is growing as well as a number of ongoing activities. It takes more and more time for me each week to get all news and summarize them; F# Weekly posts become longer. We grow and will change the world for the better soon – be in touch with F# Weekly ;).

Finally, F# Weekly #43, a roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Deedle: Exploratory data library for .NET is coming soon.
• Nee F# book was announced –“Understanding Functional Programming” by Scott Wlaschin.
• New site with docs for R Type Provider was published
• “Functional Programming using F#” by M.R.Hansen & H.Rischel (sources and slides)
• FsControl was released some days ago.
• F# static site generation is gains momentum.
• {m}brace version 0.4.4 has been released! Sign up for alpha testing.
• Go deeper in {m}-brace with Technical Overview.
• Using navigation bar and regions for F# works in VS2013.
• F# Visual Studio project template was published to VS gallery.
• New version of SqlCommand Type Provider was shipped.
• New version of PowerShell Type Provider was published.
• Foq 1.3 (mocking library for F#) was released.
• Steffen Forkmann is having an expedition to improve FAKE API docs. We have a unique opportunity – to spy on his daily diary (Day1, Day2, Day3, Day4, Day5, Day6, Day7, Day8, Day9, Day10, Day11, Day12, …)

Video/Presentations

• “F# for the Web with Type providers and FunScript” by Tomas Petricek
• “Community-Driven F#” by Rachel Reese.

Blogs

• Neil Danson posted “A Platform game in F# and SpriteKit – Part 7 – DSLs baby!“.
• Anthony Brown wrote about “F# interactive for level design“.
• Daniel Mohl shared “Progressive F# Tutorials 2013 in London“.
• Mauricio Scheffer blogged “Towards a NuGet dependency monitor with OData and F#“.
• Danny Warren wrote “C# to F#: I’m a Convert“.
• Onorio Catenacci posted “Slick Use Case For Active Patterns“.
• Scott Wlaschin started new “Understanding monoids” series:
  • “Monoids without tears“
  • “Monoids in practice“
• Don Syme blogged “Code Outlining for Visual F# in VS2010, VS2012 and VS2013“.
• Sergey Tihon posted “Stanford CoreNLP is available on NuGet for F#/C# devs“.
• Richard Dalton wrote about “F# and Databases“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #42

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual Studio 2013 was released.
• If you are interested in getting involved in the F# community please visit FSSF page and add your name to the members list.
• Dmitry Morozov presented SqlCommand Type Provider with samples!
• Dave Thomas presented navigation feature for F# within Xamarin Studio.
• New F# sample project was added to xBehave.net.
• Open challenge: rewriting the FAKE globbing stuff in idiomatic F#.
• New opportunities:
  • “go to definition” for FSharp.Formatting API docs.
  • async support for F# in NUnit.
• New bunch of improvements were added to Matlab Type Provider.
• Check out the new F# book from No Starch Press.
• Check out F# event on lanyrd.com.
• Try Math Symbol extension for VS.

Video/Presentations

• “Software for Programming Cells” by Andrew Phillips.
• “Announcing a totally open game development process!” by Captain B-Rye. (using pure functional programming with F#)

Blogs

• Michael Newton shared “Introducing F# to Experienced Developers”.
• Nicolas Rolland posted “Heaps“.
• Neil Danson shared:
  • “A Platform game in F# and SpriteKit – Part 4 – Running and Scrolling“.
  • “A Platform game in F# and SpriteKit – Part 5 – Animation and Sound“.
  • “A Platform game in F# and SpriteKit – Part 5.5 – Sound Effects“.
  • “A Platform game in F# and SpriteKit – Part 6 – Death“.
• Gustavo Guerra blogged “F# for Screen Scraping“.
• Isaac Abraham wrote about “An Azure Type Provider for F# – first steps“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy posted “Last word in .NET build systems“.
• Lev Gorodinski blogged “Object-oriented Design Patterns From a Functional Perspective“.
• Natallie Baikevich wrote about “[F#] Dev Life’s Little Pleasures“.
• Sergey Tihon shared “‘F# Minsk : Getting started’ was held“.
• Tsunami wrote about “App Store for the rest of us“.
• Cameron Taggart posted “TFS with F# Make“.
• Matt Ball blogged “Test-first F# With Acceptance Testing and the REPL“.
• Jack Fox presented “FSharpTest: F# VS Test Project Template” (template).
• Onorio Catenacci shared “Prerequisites For F# and Android Development“.
• Anthony Brown posted “Adding animation to the platformer“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Safe refactoring with Units of Measure“.
• Mark Seemann wrote “Easy ASP.NET Web API DTOs with F# CLIMutable records“.
• Phil Trelford posted:
  • “DDD North 2013“.
  • “The Promise of Polygot Programming on .Net“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #41

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Type Provider for Azure is coming, any help is appreciated.
• F# EventSource (An F# library of Server-Sent Events) was announced.
• UK Trains 2.0 was submitted to Windows Phone store.
• OWIN support is coming to fracture.
• New F# is coming from Dave Fancher.
• Canopy was presented in Kiev (photo1, photo2).
• New F# binding features include: Type provider completion parameters, completion list aggregation, Integrated compiler.
• F# Implementation of Quake III on the Mono Runtime.
• New Math.NET documentation using FSharp.Formatting.

Video/Presentations

• “F# Eye for the C# Guy” by Phil Trelford
• “F# for C# devs” by Mathias Brandewinder

Blogs

• Anthony Brown shared “Making a platformer in F# with MonoGame“.
• Phil Trelford wrote about
  • “Autumn F# Events 2013“.
  • “5 lesser known F# testing tools & techniques“.
• Luke Sandell posted “XML Transformations with F#“.
• Danny Warren wrote “C# to F#: My Initial Experience and Reflections“.
• Neil Danson shared
  • “A Platform game in SpriteKit and F# – Part 1 – Game State Management“.
  • “A Platform game in SpriteKit and F# – Part 2 – Start building a level“
  • “A Platform game in SpriteKit and F# – Part 3 – A Jumping dude“
• Jon Harrop posted
  • “Fun with infinite power series“.
  • “Removing image borders“.
  • “Scribble app in 12 lines of F#“.
  • “A thread-safe object cache that doesn’t leak“
• Kit Eason blogged
  • “You’re looking a little flushed“.
  • “Calculating cumulative binomial distribution probability“
• Matt Ball published “Adopting F#, Part III“.
• Richard Dalton posted “Learning to think Functionally -> Why I still don’t understand Single Case Active Patterns“.
• Tsunami blogged “Classifying Digits with Deep Belief Nets – Tsunami Sample“.

• Isaac Abraham wrote “Trying F# – are you a developer or a mouse?“.

• Onorio Catenacci shared “F# Tip Of The Week (14 October 2013)“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #40

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FlexSearch (new F# based open source search engine) was announced.
• FAKE has updated documentations.
• Do not miss F# Community Projects list.
• A new version of F# charting on NuGet, now with better handling of dates.
• Foq 1.2 was released on NuGet.
• F# interactive in Sublime works on Mac.
• “The results speak for themselves.” – a new F# testimonial.
• FAKE is looking for testimonials.
• WebSharper IRC channel was announced.
• Interesting Excel type provider with external schema definition written in F#.
• FsCoreSerializer is renamed to FsPickler.
• {m}brace presented their team.
• Detroit FSharp group was created on LinkedIn.
• WebSharper 2.5 includes WebGL bindings.
• Chris Holt have ported code from functional composition presentation to F#.

Blogs

• Phillip Trelford posted “Functional Game Jam: Platform recommendations“.
• Onorio Catenacci shared “F# Tip Of The Week (30 September 2013)“.
• {m}brace published “PLOS ’13 follow-up“.
• Onorio Catenacci blogged “Functional Programming Makes Simple Easy“.
• Tsunami wrote about “Who is Tsunami for?“.
• Mark Seemann wrote “How to create a pure F# ASP.NET Web API project“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy blogged “WebSharper vs FunScript“.
• Mark Seemann posted “Running a pure F# Web API on Azure Web Site“.
• Isaac Abraham posted “A refresher on Async“.
• Boris blogged “Computing Self-Organizing Maps in a Massively Parallel Way with CUDA. Part 2: Algorithms“.
• César López-Natarén wrote “Introduction to F#“.
• The .NET Team blogged “RyuJIT: The next-generation JIT compiler for .NET“.
• Joseph Rickert wrote about “R and Data Week 2013“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #39

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The language currently sits at No. 26 on the latest TIOBE Index of the most popular programming languages, ahead of other functional programming languages such as Erlang (36), Scheme (37), Scala (42), Haskell (46) and ML (48) (reed more).
• Kaggle are using F# for their most complex simulator (Flight Quest 2), a $250,000 competition running over several months.
• Some progress on documentation for F# Data Frame libraries (Using improved FsHtmlDoc).
• New idea was proposed on VS User Voice: “Allow n partitions for ActivePatterns” (Vote if you like it).
• FAKE uses FSharp.Formatting for automatic docs generation.
• LIBLINEAR 1.92 (linear classifier for data with millions of instances and features) is available for .NET users (F# sample).
• F# syntax highlighting to TextMate can come soon.
• One more proof of F# freedom from bugs.
• Take a look at the Fog library (Azure APIs wrapper for F#) if you missed it.
• Amazon S3 API sample was shared.
• Houston TX Functional Programming User Group was announced.
• Type Providers came to Idris:
  • “Looking Outward: When Dependent Types Meet I/O” by David Raymond Christiansen
  • “Dependent Type Providers” by David Raymond Christiansen

Videos/Presentations

• “Why Hymans Use F#” by Keith Harrison.
• “The Future Of Standard ML” by Robert Harper.
• “F# IN FINANCE” by Phillip Trelford.
• “F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group: Enticify” by Ben Taylor

Blogs

• Vasily Kirichenko blogged “STM: F# vs Haskell“.
• Jack Fox posted “The Great New York F# Expedition of 2013“.
• Nikos Baxevanis published “Auto-Mocking with Foq and AutoFixture“.
• Troy Kershaw wrote about “F# syntax highlighting with Docpad and Highlight.js“.
• Michael Newton posted “Implementing Classic OO Style Code in F#“.
• Phil Trelford shared “Pacman Kata at Progressive F# Tutorials NYC 2013“.
• Darryl Taft wrote “Microsoft’s F# Gains Momentum“.
• InfoQ published “What’s Your Next Language on the Javascript Platform?“.
• Neil Danson posted “SpriteKit and Physics in F#“.
• Jon Harrop wrote “A look at the IronJS source code“.
• Inside Microsoft Research published “Programming Contest Yields Surprising Results“.
• Phil Trelford wrote about “Progressive F# Tutorials NYC 2013“.
• Boris blogged “Computing Self-Organizing Maps in a Massively Parallel Way with CUDA. Part 1: F#“.
• Jon Harrop posted “Predator Prey sample revisited“.
• Jon Harrop posted “F# for Visualization 0.7 released“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “Dropbox for .NET developers“.
• Dave Thomas posted “Adding Touch to SpriteKit“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #38

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# support will be standard part of Xamarin studio (not a plugin).
• New F# Refactor integration in FSharpBinding.
• Phillip Trelford presented Mario jumps on FunScript (source code)
• TsunamiIDE updated the run button.
• Monodevelop 4.1.9 was released on Gentoo.

Videos/Presentations

• “Linear Data Structures” by Jack Fox. (slides)
• “FSharp Agents” by Rachel Reese (slides and code)
• Episode 283: Rachel Reese on F# Agents
• “F# Server-side programming” by Dave Thomas.
• “F# in the enterprise” by Dave Thomas.

Blogs

• Isaac Abraham wrote “Lightweight callsite caching with F# and C#“.
• EFYTimes.com posted “10 Programming Languages That Will Change The IT World“.
• Don Syme wrote about “A New F# Meetup – The Paris F# Group“.
• Michael Newton blogged “Teaching F# to C# Devs“.
• Tomas Petricek posted “How many tuple types are there in C#?“.
• Nicolas wrote about “Continuation Passing Style“.
• Neil Danson posted “Simple SpriteKit demo in F#“.
• Dave Thomas blogged “Spritekit Particle Fun“.
• Jon Harrop wrote about “Downloading stock prices“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #37