Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Tomas Petricek shared examples of “Charting World Bank data with F#“.
• F# 3.0 is now part of Mono 3.0.2 bundle on Mac.
• New section “Math Stacks for F#” was published on The F# Software Foundation.
• Keith Sheppard announced “An F# binding for LLVM“.

Blogs & Tutorials

• Tao Liu published “F# Computational Expression Sample – File System + XML“.
• James Litsios blogged “Introduction to stateful monads“.
• Ted Neward on The Advantages of F#.
• Tomas Petricek shared a presentation “How F# Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data“.
• Luca Bolognese blogged “Exceptions vs. Return Values to represent errors (in F#) – IV – Implementation“.
• Don Syme presented “QuickLinq Helpers“.
• Don Syme published “F# Community Update“.
• Daniel Mohl wrote of “Using the New ASP.NET MVC 4 Template in MonoDevelop“.
• Richard Warburton blogged “Are all Map Functions the same?“.
• Zach Bray published “Building an “actor” in F# with higher throughput than Akka and Erlang actors“.
• Tao Liu presented “Remove F# snippet shortcut“.

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 – #48

Welcome to F# Weekly,

F# shines like a diamond in the daily coding routine. Piece of that shine from this past week:

News

• Zach Bray announced FunScript. (F# to JavaScript compiler with JQuery etc. mappings through a TypeScript type provider)
• The Nuget team fixed the F# compatibility bugs. You can use the nightly build.
• F# works with MonoDroid.(more details)
• Voting began for better F# support in NuGet.

Blogs & Tutorials

• Tao Liu published “F#/C# on Algorithms – Poisson Distribution“.
• Justin James blogged “Try F# site: A top-notch programming resource“.
• Dave Thomas shared a post “MonoGame 3D Basics“.
• Matthew Doig wrote of “Json and the F# Type Provider“.
• Dave Fancher shared “F# Record Types“.
• Loic Denuziere wrote about “Building UIs for WebSharper with ExtJS Architect“.
• Igor Kulman published “Fun with F# Type Providers: SQL“.
• Don Syme posted “Math.NET Numerics v2.3.0 released, with improved F# support“.
• Jack Fox shared “FSharpx Data Structures Discussion“.
• Tao Liu presented “F# on Algorithms – Wagner–Fischer algorithm“.
• Luca Bolognese blogged “Exceptions vs. Return Values to represent errors (in F#) – III–The Critical monad “.
• Pezi published “Monads to help with COM cleanup“.
• George Stavroulakis presented “F# in the Cloud with {m}brace“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Using FSI to execute F# code from a .NET app“.

Upcoming events

• F# meetup in San Francisco “Building a customizable business rules engine 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 – #47

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

Blogs & Tutorials

• Gaston Hillar posted “Functional Programming in the Financial Industry“
• Dave Fancher wrote of “F# Interactive (FSI)“.
• Daniel Mohl blogged “F#, ASP.NET MVC, and MonoDevelop“.
• Tao Liu published “C# async and F# async“.
• Kolja posted “event driven webserver with F#“.
• Phillip Trelford shared “F# as a Unit Testing Language“.
• Adam Granicz opened the veil of secrecy over F# Cloud IDE.
• Luca Bolognese blogged “Exceptions vs. Return Values to represent errors (in F#) – I – Conceptual view“.
• Luca Bolognese blogged “Exceptions vs. Return Values to represent errors (in F#) – II– An example problem“.
• Dave Fancher posted “F# Tuples“.
• Michael Newton shared “Representing EasyNetQ Message Subscriptions as Blocking Queues“.
• Michael Newton wrote about “Strange errors from the F# compiler“.
• Adil Akhter shared a video “A Practical Developer’s Introduction to F#” by Ivan Towlson.
• Jack Fox blogged “Simple Lookups in F#, Choices and Trade-offs“.
• Cameron Taggart presented “1st build of an F# Type Provider for .proto files“.
• Richard Minerich shared a paper “Supervision – F# for Static Analysis“.
• Don Syme posted “Try F# 3.0 – Get Your Feedback In Now!“.

Resources & Books

• Tim Robinson presented “F# Notebook“.
• New Math.NET Numerics v2.3.0 released.
• New section “Web Stacks for F#” published on the F# Software Foundation.

Upcoming events

• F# speech at TechEd Russia (Agenda.pdf).
• Don Syme will give a talk on F# in the open source world. 😉
• {m}brace the cloud project, video conference presentation.

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 – #46

Welcome to F# Weekly,

It’s time to read Mission Statement and join F# Software Foundation! Now you can enjoy new portion of F# weekly:

Blogs & Tutorials

• Mathias Brandewinder posted “Kaggle/StackOverflow contest field notes, part 1“
• Jack Fox blogged “Let’s Make a Bayesian Deal“.
• Tao Liu published “Word Document Type Provider“.
• Sergey Tihon wrote about “My wish list for FSI“.
• Yan Cui presented “DynamoDb.SQL – a SQL-like external DSL for Amazon DynamoDB“.
• “Types vs. Tests: An Epic Battle?” presented by Amanda Laucher, Paul Snively.
• Sergey Tihon posted “Accessing Local Variable Information in FSI“.
• Michael Newton shared “Representing EasyNetQ Message Subscriptions as Blocking Queues“.
• Tao Liu presented “F# Seq.unfold for recursive structure“.
• Ruslans shared “Mahjong solitaire puzzle game in F#/WPF“.
• Dave Fancher posted “Introducing F#“.
• Dave Fancher wrote of “F# Primitives“.
• Fisnik Hasani blogged “Introducing the F# Programming Language“.
• Phillip Trelford shared a presentation “F# for Trading“.
• Dave Fancher posted “F# Basic Units of Measure“.
• Tao Liu shared a post “Seq.unfold and recursive“.
• Dave Fancher published “F# More On Units of Measure“.
• Phillip Trelford ‏announced Foq a Mocking library for F#.

Resources & Books

• Expert F# 3.0 is out!!! By Don Syme , Adam Granicz , Antonio Cisternino.
• New book “Friendly F#” by Giulia Costantini and Giuseppe Maggiore.
• New book “Building Web, Cloud, and Mobile Solutions with F#” by Dan Mohl.
• New book “F# for C# developers” by Tao Liu.

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 – #45

Welcome to F# Weekly,

Enjoy F# reading list from this past week.

Blogs & Tutorials

• Phil Trelford blogged “Progressive F# Tutorials London 2012“.
• Daniel Mohl shared presentation “Building Better Web Apps with F#“.
• Jack Fox published “The Miracle of F# Continuation Passing“.
• Bryn Keller wrote about “Transactional Objects“.
• Phillip Trelford and Tomas Petricek hosted a discussion on their efforts to establish the F# Software Foundation to demonstrate and promote the use of F# across platforms. (Video by Ryan Riley).
• Sergey Tihon shared a post ““F# Weekly” under the hood“.
• Tao Liu presented “F# on Algorithms – Neural Network“.
• Michael Newton shared “An introduction to F# (Screencast and PDF slides)“.
• Johannes Rudolph blogged “F# 3.0 on AppHarbor“.
• Tao Liu published “F# >= C# (Pattern matching)“.
• Tao Liu wrote of “F# Memorization on Recursive Function“.
• Jon Harrop posted “Trying to get F# working on the Raspberry Pi“.
• Dave Thomas shared a post “F# and MonoGame on the Mac“.

Resources & Books

• Taha Hachana presented a Open Source SEO Tool.
• Phil Trelford published Mini Rx on CodePlex.
• New F# Software Foundation site was released.

Upcoming events

• Don Syme speaking on F# 3.0 in Mountain View.

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

Previous edition of the F# Weekly – #44

A brief summary of what happened in the blogs last week:

• Released new F# Online Tutorial
• F# 3.0 Rich Functional Programming Talk
• Mono 3.0 is out!
• .NET Rocks – Don Syme and Keith Battocchi Bring F# Everywhere
• Updated F# Language Specification for F# 3.0 Now Available
• F# Compiler (open source edition)
• The future of .NET lies in Mono. The future of F# lies in MonoDevelop
• Try F# Sabbatical
• Crisis in Open Source Land
• F# Continuation Style Programming
• Three Free Ways to Develop in F# 3.0
• Fix F# WinRT Application Verification Problem
• Using F# Records with ASP.NET Web API

P.S. Thanks to Don Syme and Richard Minerich for idea.