Welcome to F# Weekly,

It was a really nice and full of news week. A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• http://www.tryfsharp.org/ v3.0 – a new interactive site for learning F# (Learn. Create. Explore.)
• Foq 0.6 is released. Typed mocking for F# & C# now with Strict & Loose mocking modes, also available via Nuget.
• IntelliFactory CloudSharper on Facebook (It needs your likes).
• Dave Thomas managed to get F# and MonoTouch playing together nicely on iPhone simulator.
• A new F# sample: Word Grid is F# sample that runs in Windows Azure.
• Mono 3.0.3 is released.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder posted “Still obsessing on FSI and Excel“.
• Paul Roberts wrote about “Parsing Expression Grammar – part 2“.
• The “Designing with types” series was shared by Scott XXX
• Michael Newton wrote “A short interlude into adaptive polling“.
• Tomas Petricek blogged “Announcing: Literate programming tools for F#“.
• Tomas Petricek shared “F# Script file: Side-by-side example“.
• Jack Fox blogged “A Unified Collection of Purely Functional List-like Data Structures“.
• Ashley Nathan Feniello posted “Programming is “Pointless”“.
• Lev Gorodinski wrote “Inverting Object-orientation With F# Discriminated Unions and Pattern Matching“.
• Yan Cui published “LINQ OrderBy – using Comparer<T>.Create and F#’s Object Expressions“.
• Piet Amersfoort blogged “Windows Store Apps with F# (part 1) : Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.“

• Piet Amersfoort blogged “Windows Store Apps with F# (part 2) : async/await“.

• Reto Matter posted “Functional Feed-forward Neural Networks, Part 2: Backpropagation Learning“.
• MSR paper “Fault Tolerance via Idempotence” by G Ramalingam and Kapil Vaswani.
• “Reverend Bayes, Meet Countess Lovelace: Machine Learning and Programming” by Andy Gordon.
• Steffen Forkmann wrote “Running FAKE targets from the command line“.
• Tao Liu posted “Generated Type Provider and Code Generation“.
• Mathias Brandewinder wrote “Testing and mocking your C# code with F#“.
• Phil Trelford blogged “Moq with F# 3“.
• Richard Dalton shared “Learning to think functionally – Currying“.
• Steffen Forkmann posted “Released new AssemblyVersion tasks for FAKE“.
• Dave Fancher blogged “Why F#?“.

A bit more about new Try F#:

• Don Syme wrote “Try F# – Learn, Create and Share F#, from your browser“.
• Visual Studio F# Team posted “Try F# 3.0 Launched Today!“.
• Dr Dobb’s posted “Microsoft Research Releases Newest Version Of Try F#“.
• Carl Nolan posted “Try F# 3.0 Released“.
• Pluralsight posted “Microsoft Research Wants You To “Try F#”“.
• Microsoft Research Connections posted “Try F#—Data Console to Big and Broad Data“

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #3

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• TryF# CSV type provider was added to F# 3 Sample Pack.
• SharpXml(F# XML Serializer) now supports F# records, tuples and immutable lists.
• CSV provider in F# Data supports quoted values, other cultures and specifying # of rows for inference.
• fquanty gets bootstrapping! Examples for mean, std and VaR included.
• Prototype completion for F# in emacs is available.

Videos

• “Data exploration in the cloud with F#” by IntelliFactory.
• “Systems Information Programming Made Simple with the F# WMI Provider sample” by Keith Battocchi.
• “F# 3.0 and the Future of Information-Rich Functional Programming” by Don Syme.
• “F# Big Data Scripting” by Matthew Moloney.

Blogs

• Tao Liu wrote about “Generated Type Provider Sample Published on Codeplex“.
• Michael Newton blogged “Playing with error handling strategies“.
• Igor Kulman posted “Using Sublime Text 2 as F# REPL“.
• Lincoln Atkinson presented “Tracking a new year’s resolution with F# and FSharpChart“.
• Dave Fancher blogged “F# Discriminated Unions“.
• Michael Newton wrote “In Which Our Intrepid Author De-sugars a Monad by Hand“.
• Dave Fancher wrote about “F# Enumerations“.
• Paul Roberts posted “Parsing Expression Grammar – part 1“.
• Steffen Forkmann blogged “Release of the WMI type provider on nuget“.
• Michael Newton wrote about “Corrected Error Handling Computational Expression“.
• Anton Kropp presented “Tracing computation expressions“.
• Don Syme blogged about “F# Emacs Integration“.
• Jack Fox published “Comparing F# Queues“.
• Lee Stott posted “Interested in Functional Programming Try F#“.
• Dave Fancher blogged “Revisiting String Distances“.

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

• StackOverflow was chosen as the best place for F# questions.(Voting)
• DSLs in Action samples translated to F#.
• Prerelease build for FAKE develop branch on NuGet was announced.
• Matt Ward presented “NuGet Addin for MonoDevelop“.
• CodeStock call for speakers is opened!
• Luca Bolognese published “Functional programming in C – Implementation“.
• Mono 3.0.3 is out! Now with a Concurrent Garbage Collector!
• Resources for Getting Started With Functional Programming and Scala was published.

Blogs & Tutorials

• Sergey Tihon presented “F# and FAST Search for SharePoint 2010“.
• Lev Gorodinski blogged about “Json.NET Type Converters for the F# Option, List and Tuple Types”.
• Jon Harrop shared a video “WPF desktop GUI app development in F# with VS Express 2012 for Web“.
• Venkatesh-Prasad Ran wrote about “My experience with F#, Groovy, and Python“.
• Donna Malayeri presented “Information Rich Programming with F# 3.0“.
• Michael Newton posted “Getting started with Fake – an introduction“.
• Steffen Forkmann updated “Getting started with FAKE” tutorial including NuGet package restore.
• Steffen Forkmann blogged “Using NuGet package restore with “FAKE – F# Make” – Get rid of the binaries in your source code repository“.
• Anh-Dung Phan presented “A cheatsheet for F#’s DSL-friendly features“.
• Dave Fancher posted “Concatenating PDFs with F# and PdfSharp“.
• Tao Liu described “Generated Type Provider API Changes“.
• Matt Ball shared “F# Wsdl Type Provider and Untrusted Server Certificates“.
• Ted Neward published “Review (in advance): F# Deep Dives“.
• Lincoln Atkinson posted “Posting to Twitter from F#“.
• @gab_km blogged about “Practical Introduction to NaturalSpec“.

Books

• Functional Programming using F# by Michael R. Hansen and Hans Rischel

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #1

Welcome to F# Weekly,

А promising start of the new year:

News

• Quick F-AI update: added a Noisy-Or learner (BN EM) and introduced some “smart” log-arithmetic.
• Released FunScript NuGet package.
• SharpDevelop 4.3 Beta was released.
• Microsoft’s ‘Orleans’ cloud programming model gets a Halo test drive.
• “Add Support for F# Code-Behind ASP.NET” is currently a Top 5 ASP.NET request with > 500 votes.
• The XML provider in F# data library now supports recursive documents like XHTML. See “Global inference mode“.
• Luca Bolognese published “Functional programming in C – I“.
• Anton Kropp presented a super simple LL(1) recursive descent parser for csv lists.
• The CSV type provider now supports custom separators and “#N/A” values.
• Foq: an F# mocking library v0.5 now available on Nuget with an optional Linq Expression based API for C# & F#

Blogs & Tutorials

• Neil Danson shared “Mono and Mac“.
• Jonathan Allen posted “Introducing the F# Software Foundation“.
• Sebastian W wrote about “F# and MS CRM“.
• Fabian Scherschel published “A foundation for F#“.
• Steffen Forkmann blogged “F# and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Web Services“.
• Jerome Laban presented “Toying around with F# Queries, Rx, Portables Libraries, Windows [Phone] 8 and the Zip operator“.
• Saxon Matt posted “Adopting F#“.
• Dave Thomas published “MonoGame Subdivision and Platonics“.
• Colin Fang presented “A Simple Overview on How Pattern Match Compiles“.
• Steffen Forkmann blogged “F# and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 OData Services“.
• Jack Fox posted “Semantics and List-like Data Structures“.
• Darryl K. Taft published “F# Foundation: Taking Microsoft’s F# Language to a Higher Ground“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week and remember you can message me on twitter (@sergey_tihon) with any F# news.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #52

Welcome to F# Weekly,

This is 10th anniversary edition of F# Weekly and last in this year. I want to say thank you to those who were with me all the time. I wish you Happy New Year full of functional happiness, love and new achievements.

Last portion of news from 2012:

News

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM type provider preview have been presented.
• Completed work on a command-line compiler and nuget package for FunScript.
  

Blogs & Tutorials

• Neil Danson blogged “The Roslyn Incident“.
• Mathias Brandewinder presented “Support Vector Machine in F#: getting there“.
• Steve Horsfield published “F#: Composing Functions“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “F#/.NET function minimization (optimization)“.
• Jack Fox posted “Engineering Random Bits: F# Generics“.
• Sergey Tihon wrote about “Rhythm of the F# Сommunity heartbeat“.
• Jonathan Allen posted “Building Type Providers for F#“.
• Mathias Brandewinder released “AdaBoost in F#“.
• Adam Granicz wrote about “Running the jQuery Mobile WebSharper sample“.
• Ryan Riley posted “F# Manifest“.

That’s all for now.  See you in the New 2013 Year.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #51

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New video! “An Informal Deep Dive With Don Syme: The Freebase Type Provider“.
• New F# book coming soon! 😉 “F# Deep Dives” by Tomas Petricek, Phillip Trelford and Co.
• Vote to make F# first-class language in the ASP.NET stack.
• Announced public CI for F# Community projects.
• Natallie Baikevich announced “fquanty” – a collection of common performance functions.
• Tomas Petricek proposed to use “F# Formatting” to document F# projects.

Blogs & Tutorials

• Daniel Mohl published “F# PowerPack NuGet Packages for F# 3.0, .NET 4.x, and Silverlight 5“.
• Tomas Petricek blogged “The Building Blocks of a F# Markdown Parser“.
• Reto Matter posted “Functional Feed-forward Neural Networks Part I: Setting it up“.
• Tomas Petricek posted “Manning: F# Deep Dives deal of the day“.
• Tomas Petricek blogged “Processing trees with F# zipper computation“.
• Robert Jeppesen presented “Sql optimization trick in F#“.
• Examples and slides from Functional Programming Day in Oslo.
• Tao Liu presented “Functional Programming and/or F# Conferences“.
• Sergey Tihon proposed to use “F# for heating“.
• Daniel Mohl blogged “Buiilding Web, Cloud, and Mobile Solutions with F#“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week and remember you can message me on twitter (@sergey_tihon) with any F# news.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #50

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Infer.NET 2.5 turns the simple succinct syntax of F# into a probabilistic modeling language for Bayesian machine learning. (video presentation)
• Tomas Petricek presented “F# Data: Library for Data Access“.
• David Siegel shared printf-style function for calling external programs with typesafe commandlines.
• Paulmichael Blasucci pushed new version of fs-zmq (an F# binding for ØMQ)

Blogs & Tutorials

• Daniel Mohl published “Using the New ASP.NET MVC 4 Template in MonoDevelop“.
• Richard Warburton blogged “Are all Map Functions the same?“.
• Steffen Forkmann presented “Testing, proving, checking – How to verify code properties“.
• Steffen Forkmann presented “Using Footloose from F# – part I – Setting up the infrastructure“.
• Srdjan Strbanovic blogged “Simple Continuous Integration with FAKE and windows scheduler F#“.
• Jack Fox shared “Twitter and the F# Programming Community“.
• Michael Newton posted a new blog post “Anyone Using FsCheck for Business Code?“.
• Luca Bolognese blogged “LLite : language friendly literate programming“.
• Kevin Berridge wrote about “Neat F#: Custom Operators“.
• Tao Liu presented “Debug F# Type Provider“.
• Faisal Waris blogged “Rich / Mobile Web Development – Without Losing Your Sanity“.

Upcoming events

• FunScript with Zach Bray
  
• Principles of Programming Languages 2013
• Developing with F# in the Cloud with Adam Granicz
• {m}brace online course.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week and remember you can message me on twitter (@sergey_tihon) with any F# news.

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