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

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FAKE 2.2 is finally released!
• LinqOptimizer.FSharp was released on NuGet.
• F# formatting with inline LaTeX for typesetting math was released.
• The best quantum computer simulator in the world is written in F#.
• Nice to remember that F# has Statically Resolved Type Parameters.
• Learn how Microsoft use F# to prototype critical machine learning algorithms.
• Azure Type Provider for F# now supports downloading entire folders.
• ExtCore 0.8.37 is out! Now includes AsyncSeq, agents, lazyList workflow, and simple futures.
• Resources for F# on Curah.
• MEAP Update: “Succeeding with functional-first languages in the industry” new to F# Deep Dives
• FSharp.Data is now in “Up For Grabs“.
• FsPickler 0.7 offers experimental support for structural, non-cryptographic, hashcode generation.
• Flash cards for F# was posted on GitHub.
• FSharp.Owin was published on NuGet.

Video/Presentations

• “FQuake3 – F# Script Proof of Concept” by Will Smith.
• Agents and Actor Models in F# 3.0 with Rachel Reese.
• “Language-Integrated Quantum Operations: A Software Architecture for Quantum Computing” by Dave Wecker.
• “All your types are belong to us!” by Phil Trelford.

Blogs

• Sergey Tihon blogged “F# Neural Networks with RProvider & Deedle“.
• Jamie Dixon posted “F#, Chain Of Responsibility, And High Ordered Functions“.
• Iris Classon wrote “A simple C# and F# example with IoC and unit tests“.
• Krzysztof Cieślak wrote about “C# vs F#: Rosetta Code“.
• Daniel Mohl shared “F# Web Programming Session at Progressive F# Tutorials 2013“.
• Steffen Forkmann blogged “FAKE 2.2 released“.
• Nicolas Rolland wrote about “Huffman coding“.
• Mike posted “On NULL“.
• Jack Fox posted “Great Ideas Made Real in F#“.
• Colin Bull blogged “Introducing Java type provider“.
• Anthony Brown wrote “DunDDD F# for fun and games slides and demos“.

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

• 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