F# Weekly #17, 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# community on Google+.
• Fantomas is moving fast: web project is ready and VS add-in is in progress.
• Taha Hachana presented F# syntax highlighting tool.
• Google+ discussion on an F# Resharper plugin.
• Benchmarking F# async http proxy on Mono on Azure.
• “Integrating stock data into the F# language” is new to F# Deep Dives.

Videos

• “Mono, Open Source, Visual Studio, and Xamarin” by Miguel de Icaza.
• “F# embedded in Excel“(part 1 and part 2) by Matt Moloney and Adam Mlocek. (slides)
• “F# MVC for WPF” by Dmitry Morozov. (slides)
• “MathSharp turn MathML into code” by ActiveMesa.
• “Reasonable codewithfsharp” slides by Michael Falanga

Blogs

• John Liao posted “Exploring Riak with F#“.
• Visual Studio Magazine posted “iOS Development with Xamarin.iOS and Visual Studio“.
• Gene Belitski presented “A Tale of Two Functions“.
• Bryan Edds wrote “Aml – A Modular Language written in F# and available for .NET“.
• Mike Harris shared “Finding Perfect Numbers“.
• Sergey Tihon announced “New selectors with Canopy 0.7.3“.
• Anton Kropp wrote “A response to “Ten reasons to not use a functional programming language”“.
• Don Syme blogged “F# and QuantLib: An Introduction“.
• Hao Lian posted “Dive into parser combinators: parsing search queries with F# and FParsec in Kiln“.
• Gene

  Belitski shared “If Google would be looking to hire F# programmers – part1“.

• Gene

  Belitski shared “If Google would be looking to hire F# programmers – part2“.

• Taha Hachana wrote “Fantomas support in the Tsunami IDE“.
• Don Syme blogged “Miguel de Icaza discusses Xamarin support for F# on Channel 9“.
• Sergey Tihon posted “Neo4jClient new Cypher Start notation & F# Extra Top Level Operators“.
• John Liao shared “Exploring Riak with F# and CorrugatedIron“.
• Phil Trelford wrote “Foq It Easy“.
• InfoQ published “Develop Financial Applications with F# and QuantLib“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “WPF MVVM with Xaml Type Provider“.
• Ashley Nathan Feniello posted “Memoization“.
• Richard Dalton wrote “Learning To Think Functionally – Stuck“.
• Phil Trelford shared “Fractal Zoom in Colour“.
• Mike Harris posted “Primality by Trial Division OR TDD Example in F# using FsUnit“.

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

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