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

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