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

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# users who program with Visual Studio will be glad to see this new debugger feature in VS2013.
• F# side-by-side rendered Markdown comments in Tsunami are coming soon.
• There is one more app in Windows Store with F# inside.
• Taha Hachana showed HTML5 native video playback.
• FSM.NET 2.0.0 (a simple “stateless” finite-state machine library for .NET, written in F#) was released and is available on NuGet.
• New discussion “FSharp.Formatting for static sites“.

Videos/Presentations

• “Polyglot Architecture: A Rational Approach to Software Design” by Richard Minerich.
• “DDD, Event Sourcing, and CQRS with F# and EventStore” by Leo Gorodinski.

Blogs

• Matt Ball posted “Service Stack, With F# on Linux“.
• Ramasubramanian wrote “The N Queens problem!“.
• Visual Studio FSharp Team blogged “Viewing function return values in the Visual Studio 2013 debugger“.
• Sergey Tihon shared some posts:
  • “Stanford Parser is available on NuGet“
  • “Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER) is available on NuGet“
  • “Stanford Log-linear Part-Of-Speech Tagger is available on NuGet“
• Phil Trelford posted “Machine Learning from Disaster“.
• Richard Minerich blogged “In Retrospect: QCon NYC 2013 (and a conversation with Rich Hickey on languages)“.
• Michael Newton shared “FsCheck – Breaking Your Code in New and Exciting Ways“.
• Mathias Brandewinder posted ““Summer of F#” Tour“.
• John Reynolds wrote “Adding binding options to Morozov’s WPF MVC framework“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #27

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• “Indentation for val” was proposed on VS uservoice.
• The first version of F# code formatter addin for Visual Studio 2012 was released.
• Do not lose your points – up-vote your favorite ideas.
• The Extreme Optimization Numerical Libraries for .NET now support F# 3.1 row and column slicing and modules with functional programming operators (mapi, iteri…) for vectors and matrices.
• Visual F# Resources that should be accessible by fsharp.net. 😉
• WebSharper Snippets was released.
• Edge-fs npm module was published.
• Dave Thomas was managed to get Xamarin Studio to debug itself interactively.
• F#+Sage = New opportunity? (Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system)
• FSharp.Compiler.Editor was added to NuGet, this allows access to the F# compilers AST for tooling.
• ReSharper users who also use F# might want to weigh in on this issue.
• Tsunami uses 100% F# for the WPF UI. No C# / XAML layer cake.
• Interactively optimizing trading algos with F#, Tsunami, Matlab and TradersToolbox.
• Script your way to world domination with Minions! A drone fleet management plug-in for the budding dictator F#.
• Why does the F# compiler fail with this infix operator?

Videos/Presentations

• F# in Your Organization with Kit Eason.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Field notes: Coursera Machine Learning class“.
• Buddy James posted “Machine learning resources for .NET developers“.
• Don Syme published “FSCL – Compiling F# to OpenCL for High-Performance over Multi-core and Many-core devices“.
• Dawid Kowalski wrote “4 week challenge – up to speed with F#“.
• Jack Fox shared “Lambda Jam F# Bibliography“.
• What’s new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki?
• JaredPar blogged “Immutable isn’t just for parallel code“.
• Ivan Towlson posted “Func-ier and Func-ier“.
• Richard Minerich wrote “On Type Safety, Representable States and Erlang“.
• InfoQ posted “F# Moves Forward in 3.1 Preview Release”.
• Ross McKinlay blogged “Last-Fi“.
• Matthew Adams shared “Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Eight – Working With Logic“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Random Forest classification in F#: first cut“.
• Yan Cui wrote “Project Euler – Problem 60 Solution“.
• Dave Fancher blogged “Microsoft MVP – Visual F#“.
• Gene Belitski posted “Going Artistic with FSharp.Charting“.
• Gary Evans wrote “Picking with DirectX 11 and Bullet Physics“.
• Natallie Baikevich blogged “Days and Ghost Refinements“.
• Daniel Mohl posted “New Angular.js Option in the F#/C# MVC 4 SPA Project Template“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #26

Welcome to F# Weekly,

It was an adorable week! There are lots of great things happened:

News

• Pre-release of F# 3.1 was announced (reddit)
• From now, Visual F# tooling can be updated more frequently, and independently of Visual Studio.
• NuGet 2.6 was released with New official Microsoft package feed.
• A technical overview of {m}brace was published.
• VS 2012 Update 3 fixes the HintPath bug which happened when you updated a NuGet package in an F# project.
• FSM.NET has been released on NuGet.
• Tsunami Reader – A RSS Reader F# Type Provider. Soon to have more features than Google Reader.
• FSharp.NLP.Stanford.Parser was announced (available on NuGet).
• FSharpx 1.8.29 was released. Excel type provider works without Excel, very fast Reflection and lots of smaller fixes.
• All F# Stanford NLP samples were updated up to the latest Stanford libraries and latest IKVM.
• There is some plans for a F# SignalR TypeProvider to be used in FunScript. If you want to help please contact @mark_dj.
• Want Alt+Enter to work in ReSharper AND send to F# Interactive? Check out this plugin.
• New idea was added to Visual Studio User Voice: “add support for Windows Store apps written in F# … show that F# can be superior to C# even when it comes to more common tasks like GUI dev“.
• Tsunami IDE was moved from Google Groups to Discourse.

Videos/Presentations

• “Keynote – Scala with Style” by Martin Odersky (Dmitry Morozov  said “Worthwhile to watch for any #fsharp dev. Start at #19 if you’re solid in FP.Key takeaway – I’m so happy to be F#dev.“)
• “1GAM June: FShoot” by Gareth Williams
• “Last-Fi -An F# powered Raspberry Pi internet radio” by Ross McKinlay.
• “.NET Rocks – Functional Programming Panel: Type systems and static typing – saving your ass or getting in your face” from NDCOslo. (audio only)
• “Succeeding with Functional-first Programming in Industry” by Don Syme.
• “Making Magic: Combining Data, Information, Services and Programming, at Internet-Scale” by Don Syme.
• “Clarity of Intent” by Paulmichael Blasucci.

Blogs

• Sergey Tihon wrote some posts
  • Selective crawling in SharePoint 2010 (with F# & Selenium).
  • Confluence/Jira communication from F# and C#.
  • FSharp.NLP.Stanford.Parser available on NuGet.
  • Declarative authorization in REST services in SharePoint with F# and ServiceStack.
• Scott Wlaschin published “Railway oriented programming: Carbonated edition“.
• Dave Thomas blogged “Can I Have Some F# With That?” (Quick post on adding F# support to ScriptCs)
• John Liao posted “Riak CAP Tuning and F#“.
• Immo Landwerth posted “Please welcome ImmutableArray<T>“.
• Yan Cui wrote about “Customizing document styles with FSharp.Markdown.Pdf“.
• Gareth Williams wrote “1GAM June: FShoot“.
• Heather Cynede shared “Building the source without project files“.
• Visual Studio FSharp Team blogged “We are proud to announce a pre-release of F# 3.1 and Visual F# tools in VS 2013“.
• Richard Broida posted “WATK in F#, Part 6: Debugging Applications in Windows Azure“.
• Paul Grenyer shared “NorDev1 Review: Liz Keogh: Lean vs. Agile: Fight! & Phil Trelford: F# eye for the C# guy“.
• Loic Denuziere wrote “XML computation expressions: Playing around with extending the F# compiler“.
• Neil Danson blogged “Types, types, types(A (short) journey through type definitions)“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #25

“Design patterns are bug reports against your programming language”

Peter Norvig

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Software Foundation is more and more active day by day. Want to know more and be involved? Join now!
• New beautiful FunScript web site was released!
• FsCheck (an automatic testing library for F#) is joined to the F# Open Source Community on GitHub.
• Nice to read: one more holly war discussion about Scala vs F#.
• Optimized F# reflection methods come to FSharpx.
• FunScript.Owin was announced (FunScript compilation middleware for OWIN).
• Markdown support in CloudSharper was announced.

Blogs

• Piet Amersfoort wrote “Increase your productivity with F# scripts (part 2)“.
• Pierre Irrmann shared “Alt.net Coding Breakfast – June 2013 Edition“.
• Mike Hadlow posted “Guest Post: Working Around F#/NuGet Problems“.
• Mauricio Scheffer posted “Optimizing with the help of FsCheck“.
• Cameron Taggart wrote “Making the .NET Open Source More Open“.
• Don Syme blogged “FunScript – F# to Javascript leveraging TypeScript metadata“.
• InfoQ posted “FunScript: Using the Power of F# for Writing Web Apps“.
• James posted “Hosting Websharper/ASP.NET apps on Linux with Mono + nginx“.
• Scott Wlaschin posted “Railway oriented programming: Carbonated edition“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #24

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Is anybody else interested in getting F# a snazzy logo? Share your thoughts!
• F# example usage of TopShelf.
• Some Vagrant provisioning scripts for hosting a WebSharper site on Ubuntu server were created.
• A bit of F# magic in scriptcs.
• “INotifyPropertyChanged Type Provider” was updated.

Videos/Presentations

• “F# for startups” by Joel Grus.
• PlatonTV interviews Dr Kenji Takeda (Microsoft Research) at TN2013

Blogs

• Scott Wlaschin posted “Organizing modules in a project“.
• Daniel Mohl posted “jQuery UI Drag and Drop with FunScript“.
• Matthew Adams wrote “Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Five – Running a program“.
• Phil Trelford shared “Tremolo“.
• Mike Hadlow blogged “NuGet Install Is Broken With F#“.
• Piet Amersfoort posted “Increase your productivity with F# scripts (part 1)“.
• Scott Wlaschin posted a new series on dependency cycles:
  • Cyclic dependencies are evil.

  • Refactoring to remove cyclic dependencies.

  • Cycles and modularity in the wild. (+script) (hot)
• Phil Trelford wrote “Machine Learning Hands On Session“.
• Phil Trelford wrote “TickSpec dependency graph“.
• Don Syme posted “Does the language you use make a difference? – Code metrics for “functional-first” v. “object-first” code“.
• Yan Cui posted “F# – PDF fun with Markdown and FSharp.Formatting“.
• Serget Tihon blogged “New Twitter API or “F# Weekly” v1.1“.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #23

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New home for FSharp.Charting library was announced.
• A new page with the F# videos became available of fsharp.org.
• MS Press published: F# for C# Developers.
• Put up some simple docs for the lazy Matlab Type Provider.
• Updated F# source code formatter (Fantomas) is on NuGet – now with support for formatting selection.
• OCaml is borrowing from F# now 🙂
• Tsunami brings back the Win8 Start Menu as a Type Provider.
• We would recommend F# as an additional tool in the kit of any company building software on the .NET stack.
• WANTED: F# binding for Light Table.

Videos/Presentations

• “Data Science with Hive from Tsunami” by Tsunami IDE.
• “Build Data-Rich Solutions Faster with Microsoft Visual F#” by Dustin Campbell.

Blogs

• Phil Trelford posted “Monokeys“.
• Richard Broida blogged “WATK in F#, Part 4: Introduction to Cloud Services“.
• Richard Broida blogged “WATK in F#, Part 5: Background Processing with Worker Roles and Queues“.
• John Liao wrote “Riak MapReduce with F#“.
• Santi Albo shared “Monads in F#“.
• Martin Trojer shared “Comparing FP REPL Sessions“.
• Ash presented “Tilde, a static blog generator“.
• Martin Trojer blogged “Scheme in Scala“.
• Dave Thomas posted “Monster Zero – Revisited“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy shared “Generic programming in F# – another take“.
• Andras Janko wrote about “jQuery Mobile page reuse with Websharper“.
• Christoph Ruegg blogged “Test Your C# or F# Library on Mono With Vagrant“.
• Tomas Petricek published “New home for F# Chart“.
• Adam Granicz answered to “IntelliFactory: What is IntelliFactory CloudSharper?“

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #22