Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FSharp.Data 1.1.10 was released with a bunch of bugfixes.
• RProvider 1.0.1 was released with latest R.NET and RDotNet.FSharp inside.
• Francesco De Vittori works on type inference for Smalltalk.
• Immo Landwerth announced that “Immutable collections are now RC“.

Blogs

• Visual Studio FSharp Team posted “Visual Studio 2013 RC and Send to FSI“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “Stanford Word Segmenter is available on NuGet“.
• Phil Trelford wrote about “k-means clustering“.
• Valdis Iljuconoks posted “Matching the patterns“.
• Danny Tuppeny ‏blogged “Opt-in Nulls; an F# Feature Worth Switching For?“.
• Jon Harrop wrote
  • “Ten F# one-liners to impress your friends“
  • “A simple Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)” (another FFT sample code)
  • “Color wheel“
• Rachel Appel wrote “Understanding Your Language Choices for Developing Modern Apps“.
• brianberns posted “F# language warts“.
• Kapil Garg shared “FSharp -Top tweets (10/09/2013)“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #36

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New feature was proposed to F# – Implement interface by expression (example is here)
• New F# Cheatsheet in PDF and HTML format using FSharp.Formatting tool was published.
• James announced a new F# game Twaddle(FunScript) that is available on Android.
• F# User Group Sydney was registered.
• Taha Hachana presented “Geolocation Options“.
• Canopy was updated up to 0.8.5.

Videos/Presentations

• “F# Driver for MongoDB” by Max Hirschorn.
• “Functional Programming, F#, Type Providers and Dynamic Languages” by Richard Minerich.
• “Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F#” by Lohith G.N.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “First steps with Accord.NET SVM in F#“.
• Mathias Brandewinder wrote “Field notes from the F# tour“.
• Jon Harrop wrote “F# for Visualization update“.
• bratfizyk posted “Learning F# – Graph Coloring using Microsoft Solver Foundation“.
• Faisal Waris wrote about “Talking to your car – with OpenXC, Android, Xamarin & F#“.
• Paulmichael Blasucci blogged “The Month NYC Ran Out of Excuses Not to Learn F#“.
• Phil Trelford posted “Try 10 Programming Languages in 10 minutes“.
• Christian Horsdal published “Playtime: Riak, Azure, F#“.
• Nikos Baxevanis blogged “How to enable Code Analysis for F# projects“.
• Kapil Garg wrote “Top Tweets“.
• Yan Cui published “Binary and JSON serializer benchmarks updated“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #35

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Canopy 0.8.0 was released with PhantomJS support.
• Brahma.FSharp(F# quotation to OpenCL translator) is available on NuGet.
• Will Smith embedded FSI in Quake3 (part 2).
• Paris F# User Group was registered and growing up.
• Code, build and run – WebSharper mobile apps in CloudSharper
• Taha Hachana presented “Native HTML5 Drag & Drop“.

Videos/Presentations

• “But we are a C# shop” by ericksoa07.
• “Piglets to the rescue” by Loic Denuziere, Ernesto Rodriguez, Adam Granicz.

Blogs

• Onorio Catenacci wrote “First Detroit F# Meetup“.
• Phil Trelford posted “F# on Android“.
• Tomas Petricek shared “Hello New York. Learn some F#!“.
• Onorio Catenacci wrote “F# Tip of the Week (26 August 2013)“
• Phil Trelford posted “Balls“.
• Tomas Petricek shared “Update on the F# Deep Dives book“.
• Dmitry Morozov posted “More on “Clarity of Intent”“.
• Dmitry Morozov posted “Progressive F# Tutorials Teaser“.
• Anton Kropp published “ParsecClone on nuget“.
• Phil Trelford wrote “Building a game in a day“.
• Mauricio Scheffer shared “Objects and functional programming“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “CSV Type Provider, now with more awesome“.
• Max Hirschhorn wrote about “Enhancing the F# developer experience with MongoDB“
• Sergey Tihon posted “MSR-SPLAT Overview for F#“.

P.S. 100 Most Influential Books According to Stack Overflow.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #34

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New Xamarin.Android 4.8 was released with F# Support!
• Full suite of F# project options in Xamarin Studio on Mac OS X: create apps, unit tests, target OpenGL.
• TsunamiIDE announced Tsunami Chrome Extension.
• PowerShellTypeProvider with SharePoint 2013 support is available on Nuget.
• Minsk F# User Group was registered.
• Foq 1.1 was released.
• The {m}brace team has been selected to present at the PLOS 2013 workshop!
• Increased demand for F#-devs in the UK during 2013.
• Vote if you are interested in F# covariance/contravariance.
• Taha Hachana presented “Navigation using the Location Object“.
• Taha Hachana presented “HTML5 charting with TsunamiIDE“.
• New open opportunities were added to Type Providers lists.

Videos/Presentations

• “Dependent Type Providers” by David Raymond Christiansen.

Blogs

• Anton Kropp wrote “Coding Dojo: a gentle introduction to Machine Learning with F# review“.
• Onorio Catenacci shared “F# Tip Of The Week (Week of August 19, 2013)“.
• Steve Gilham posted “F# asynchrony and Task -> Task<unit> conversion“.
• Matthew Adams blogged “Dealing with Repetitive Tasks – Recursion in F#“.
• Lou Franco wrote about “The 0-Liner“.
• Thomas Jaskula posted “From OOP to FP : About dependency injection and higher-order functions“.
• Samuel Neff wrote “Machine Learning with F# and C# side-by-side“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #33

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New {m}brace version was released with cloud disposables and brand new documentation.
• Fantomas extension v0.7.0 is available in VS gallery with new features and various improvements.
• F# User Groups Map was updated.
• MonoDevelop 4.0.12 was released.
• Over 180 people were registered to an F# meetup in Boston!

Videos/Presentations

• “Generative Art Hands On with F#” by Phillip Trelford. (code samples)
• “Introduction To Stateful Monads In F#” by James Litsios.

Blogs

• Jack Fox posted “Gaining FsCheck Fluency through Transparency“.
• Onorio Catenacci wrote “F# Tip Of The Week (Week of August 12, 2013)“.
• Richard Minerich blogged “All Machine Learning Platforms are Terrible (but some less so)“.
• Neil Danson shared “F# and Monogame Part 4 – Content Pipeline“.
• Thomas Jaskula posted “My 2 weeks trip from OOP to FP with F#“.
• Anton Kropp wrote “F# class getter fun“.
• Faisal Waris published “FAKE Script for ClickOnce Packaging of F# Apps“.
• Gary Evans blogged “RunKeeper Visualizations“.
• Phillip Trelford posted “Generative Art“.
• Phillip Trelford posted “The Kids Are Alright“.
• Dawid Kowalski blogged “With F# up to speed – month later“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #32

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• VegaHub was presented (A SignalR Hub Utility for data scientists to push Vega charts from F# Interactive).
• New beta of TsunamiIDE is available now. Tons of improvements, major performance fixes etc.
• New TypeProviders are inside Tsunami (NuGetTypeProvider, S3TypeProvider, FacebookTypeProvider, DocumentTypeProvider) and much more.
• Taha Hachana presented “Google Visualization Line Chart“.
• PowerShell Type Provider was updated: VS IntelliSense works for 64bit PowerShell snap-ins, like SharePoint 2013 one.
• F# Outlining – for those who still do not use it.
• Canopy 0.7.9 was released.

Videos/Presentations

• “VegaHub for F# and FSI” by Nicolas Rolland.
• John Carmack praises static types: “Everything that is syntactically legal will eventually wind up in your code base”.

Blogs

• Sergey Tihon blogged “F# Type Providers: News from the battlefields“.
• Phil Trelford wrote “Developer Conferences“.
• “Syntax Matters: Writing abstract computations in F#” by Tomas Petricek and Don Syme.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #31

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• PowerShell Type Provider was announced.
• F# intellisense support for LINQPad on 4th place on the user voice forum.
• SkyDrive web text editor can now support F# code files.
• Good discussion of F# Vector<T> on StackOverflow.
• New candidate for a Type Provider.

Videos/Presentations

• “Data, Visibility, and Abstraction” by Stuart Sierra
• “Embedding Tsunami into Event Store” by TsunamiIDE
• “Functional linear data structures in f#” by Jack Fox

Blogs

• Scott Wlaschin published “Learn X in Y minutes.Where X=F#“
• Phil Trelford wrote “GameCraft NYC“.
• Onorio Catenacci shared “Getting The Band Back Together“.
• Neil Danson blogged:
  • “F# and Monogame Part 1 – MacOS“
  • “F# and Monogame Part 2 – Android“
  • “F# and Monogame Part 3 – iOS“
• Matthew Adams posted “Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Eleven – More With Functions and Logic in F#: Minimizing Boolean Expressions“.
• David Tchepak wrote about “String calculator with Parsec“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “PowerShell Type Provider“.
• Natallie Baikevich ‏posted “Excel-DNA: Three Stories“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #30

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Python Type Provider was announced.
• New GestIT web site with live demos was released.
• Support for infix operators on Matlab Variable Handles was added to the Matlab F# Type Provider.
• Vote if you would like to have F# IntelliSense support in LINQPad.
• Tsunami Cloud was announced (screenshot).
• Taha Hachana shared “DOM Implementation Details“.
• FiM++ support was added to Tsunami.

Videos/Presentations

• “F# Mobile Apps” by James Freiwirth (slides, code)
• “What is new in Mono?” by Miguel de Icaza.
• “Zero Install .Net in Excel with Tsunami and FCell in C#, VB and F#” by Tsunami IDE.

Blogs

• Richard Minerich posted “The Promise of F# Language Type Providers“.
• Eric Lippert wrote “What is the type of the null literal?“.
• Matthew Adams shared “Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Ten – Getting Started With Operators in F#“.
• Dave Fancher posted “.NET Users of Fort Wayne – August 21“.
• Matt Ball blogged “Continuous Deployment With FAKE and Octopus Deploy“.
• Phil Trelford posted “Turing drawings“.
• Ross McKinlay blogged “Choose Your Own Adventure Type Provider“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #29

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Fashion Collection was announced (Please share your photos in F# t-shirts).
• FSharp.Data 1.1.9 was released.
• Richard Minerich did some reworking of the F# Matlab Type Provider.
• Tomas Petricek showed pattern matching with member constraints.
• Anders Hejlsberg wants to copy F# features in C#!
• Fantomas plugin for Tsunami was presented.
• Taha Hachana shared HTML5 WebSocket snippet.

Videos/Presentations

• “{M}brace the cloud with Tsunami” by Tsunami IDE.
• “Functional-style control flow in F#” by Lincoln Atkinson (with imperative and functional snippets).
• “Building Better Web Apps with FSharp” by Daniel Mohl.

Blogs

• Sean Corfield wrote “Lambda Jam 2013“.
• Cameron Taggart shared “Source Linking“.
• Paulmichael Blasucci posted:
  • Progressive F# Tutorials NYC 2013.
  • To the A-maze-ment of All: Generating Mazes in F#.
• Sergey Tihon blogged:
  • Rattle for F# devs.
  • let runFAKE = Download >> Unzip >> IKVMCompile >> Sign >> NuGet.
  • FSharp.NLP.Stanford.Parser justification or StackOverflow questions understanding.
• Matthew Adams shared “Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Nine – Introducing Functions in F#“.
• Gary Evans blogged:
  • Binomial Tree Option Pricing in F#.
  • Sipping from the twitter stream.
• Don Syme wrote about:
  • Combining F# and Excel using Excel DNA.
  • F# Deep Dives – Early Access Program.
  • F# Deep Dives – Chapter 4 – Financial Programming.
  • F# Type Provider for MATLAB – Feedback requested, contributions welcome.
• Rikard Ottosson posted “The Actor Model“.
• Phillip Trelford wrote about “F# in the Enterprise“.
• Richard Minerich blogged “Come join me at the SkillsMatter F# Tutorials NYC 2013“.
• Scott Hanselman wrote “Cross-Platform Portable Class Libraries with .NET are Happening“.
• Mashape posted “List of 40+ Machine Learning APIs“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #28