F# Weekly #3, 2013

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.

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