F# Weekly #9, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• “I strongly encourage F# users on Windows to try out RuyJIT and send feedback – VIP it works well for F# code.” Don Syme.
• F# Milano user group was registered.
• F# Power Tools 0.3.1 was released with such features as rename refactoring and improved reference highlighting.
• If you would like to do F# cross-project rename refactoring and find all references in XS and VS please join the discussion.
• Check the Nu Game Engine – a new  purely functional 2D game engine written in F#!
• ExcelProvider  and GraphProvider were moved to a new home.
• FSharp Composable Extensions were presented.
• HadoopFs (A lightweight F# implementation of the Hadoop Streaming API) was presented.
• Mono 3.2.7 was out.
• Msmq Type provider is coming to FSharp.Management.
• SqlCommandProvider v 1.2.28 was released.
• FSharp.Data 2.0.0 beta 2 was published to NuGet.
• List of F# Consultants was published.
• Interested in F# code review online? Try Code Review on SO.

Video/Presentations

• F# Software Foundation Year in Review
• “Time for Functions” by Simon Cousins.
• “F# MVC for WPF” by Dmitry Morozov.
• “F# FizzBuzz type provider” by James Freiwirth.
• “Concurrency in F#” by Riccardo Terrell.

Blogs

• Philip Davis blogged “Learning to Code F# with Robot Turtles“.
• Will Smith posted “What’s Going On? F#“.
  
• Phil Brooks wrote about “Mortality Manager Version 001“.
• Anthony Brown blogged “New type provider – Brainfuck“.
• Jamie Dixon wrote “Restaurant Classification Via the Yellow Pages API Using F#“.
• James D’Angelo posted “Quick and Dirty Command Bus with F#“.
• Phil Trelford blogged “F# Eye for the VB Guy“.
• Loïc Denuzière wrote about “F# query expressions and composability“.
• Sacha Barber presented “F#2 FSI Environment“.
• Kit Eason blogged “F# Syntax You Didn’t Know (Maybe)“.
• Anton Kropp posted “Debugging F# NUnit equals for mixed type tuples“.
• Simon Cousins wrote “It Only Multiplies Three Numbers“.
• Cameron Taggart presented “Source Indexing FSharp.Compiler.Service on AppVeyor“.
• Marcin Juraszek blogged “Learning F# and solving Digit Recognizer competition on kaggle“.
• Michael Newton posted “Single File Websites With Suave“.
• Simon Dickson wrote “F# 3.1 as C# 6.0 Strict Mode“.
• Chao-Jen Chen wrote about “F#: Capture market depth data from InteractiveBrokers“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Learning from mistakes: Winnow Algorithm in F#“.
• Andre Pemmelaar posted “Unit Testing Sequences of Events using TestCaseSource, FsUnit, and Xamarin“.
• Phil Trelford wrote about “NorDevCon 2014“.
• Anthony Brown posted “Looking at the details of F#’s duck typing“.

FsAdventJP

• MCMC Debugging.

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

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