F# Weekly #4, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual Studio FSharp Team announced Visual F# Tools 3.1.1, with support for Desktop and Web express!
• Do not forget to like and follow a new F# Facebook page if you like F#.
• Welcome a new “F# |> I❤” bumper sticker! Buy from Zazzle UK or US.
• The F# compiler services project (aka Foslyn :-)) now has basic API documentation.
• Code formatting is now working on Xamarin Studio! This feature is coming soon.
• Yeppp pre-release is on NuGet!
• Now you can use VegaHub with Canopy!
• Do not miss WebSharper D3 binding.
• SqlProvider supports MySQL now.
• You can play with MathNet.Numerics on .NET Fiddle.
• Check out some of F# events scheduled across Europe & US.
• Nessos S.A. now has its own GitHub page.
• Yan Cui presented a Rx based client library for working with Amazon Kinesis.
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 was released.
• FSharpx.Collections docs now have a “Go to source” link (Thanks to a new version of FSharp.Formatting)
• Kaggle is now a listed supporter of the F# Software Foundation.
• Fun discussion with some C# folk. “I’m not sure what you mean by a type provider“.
• A new release of SqlCommandProvider! (Support for json serialization of ResultType.Records in WebAPI)
• Fleece 0.1 was released (a JSON mapper for F#).
• Foq 1.5 was released.

Video/Presentations

• “F# in action: playing functional Conway’s game of life” by Vagif Abilov.
• “A Functional Architecture with F#” PluralSight course by Mark Seemann.
• “Don’t fear the Monad” by Brian Beckman.
• “The Future of C#” by Mads Torgersen.

Blogs

• Anton Kropp wrote “Checking if a socket is connected“.
• Steffen Forkmann posted “FAKE 2.6 released – support for TravisCI“.
• James D’Angelo shared “JSON Web Token (JWT) with Simple.Web – Part 2 (Cleanup)“.
• Phil Trelford blogged “Parsing C#“.
• Tomas Petricek translated “Advent Art: Generating Hokusai paintings“.
• Stefan Alfbo posted “Microsoft Translator Api“.
• Jérémie Chassaing published “F# Poker Kata par Jérémie, Thomas et Damien“.
• Mark Seemann wrote about “A Functional architecture with F#“.
• Richard Dalton blogged “Annotate your code with TestCases“.
• Gary Evans posted “MOOCs“.
• Taha Hachana ‏wrote “Creating Dynamic Charts with FsPlot“.
• Cameron Taggart blogged “Code your TFS builds in F# instead of XAML“.
• Jeffrey Sax presented “CUDA Support Preview“.

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

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