F# Weekly #51, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Deep Dives – final eBook is available now!
• The new CloudSharper is out with WebSharper 3.0 support!
• Your favorite F# book?  Can you recommend a good beginner’s book for F#? Join discussions.
• Deploying remote actors using Vagrant and Thespian. (It even works with custom types).
• .NET projects using distribution can benefit considerably by using Vagrant.
• WebSharper 3.0-alpha now has source maps for happier debugging.
• Do not forget to subscribe to F# Show newsletter.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Writing Compilers with Phil Trelford.
• F# Show #1: The F# Software Foundation with Mathias Brandewinder, Andrea Magnorsky, Tomas Petricek, Phil Trelford and Scott Wlaschin

This week from F# Advent Calendar in English

• Christmas Carol and other eigenvectors – Evelina Gabasova
• Pure functional applications (in F#) – Tomas Jansson
• Good times with F# – Mark Seemann
• Modelling Inheritance With Inheritance – Michael Newton
• Having fun with type-level numbers using a type-provider – Carsten König
• Textogramme – Mathias Brandewinder
• The Internet of Things at Scale with F# and Actors – Anthony Brown

This week from F# Advent Calendar in Japanese

• アクティブパターンでアクティブになる – adacola
• FsAttoparsecについて – pocketberserker
• FsLab JournalでReproducible Research(レポート)を簡単に作りたい – teramonagi
• 継続は力なり – u_1roh
• F#で謎カウンターを作るとき、let mutableでなくrefを使う（使っていた）のはなぜ？– komorebikoboshi
• Linux で F# を始める – c0hama
• Hindley-Milner型推論アルゴリズムをF#で書いてみた – pocarist

Blogs

• Simon Cousins updated “Does the Language You Use Make a Difference (revisited)?“.
• Review: F# Deep Dives – Sergey Tihon
• Why F# became my goto language – Mårten Rånge.
• Pure Functional Approach to the Visitor Pattern – Matthew Mcveigh.
• On showing off vs fighting for adoption of functional languages – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes.
• Refactored SMS sender – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes.
• Scraping VZB network latency tables in F# – jnazario.
• Functional Vs Imperative language paradigms – Aficionado.
• Step 1 – Phonecat Backend Using Web Api and TypeProviders – TamizhVendan.
• VDM-SL Example: Order Processing –  Mataphor Engineering.
• Generating App Screenshots Using Xamarin.UITest – Greg Shackles.

F# vNext News

• Visual F# Team need your help here:
  • should not allow Framework 4 / F# 3.1 combination in project properties
  • Add support for parallel build in VS
  • Add warning when raise/failwith/failwithf functions are passed extra arguments
  • #I in .fsx clobbers previous #I
• Recently accepted PRs:
  • warnings are error
  • add an active pattern for decimal
  • add nonstructuralcomparison ops
• Recently proposed RPs:
  • fix for issue 201

New releases

• Paket 0.18.10
• Streams 0.2.7.
• Tresi 1.0
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.5
• FSharp.Configuration 0.4.8
• CloudSharper 0.9.23
• WebSharper 3.0.3-alpha
• Logary 2.2.0
• EventStore.Client.FSharp 3.1.1

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

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