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.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #49

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