F# Weekly #33, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

Note that F# Weekly goes to summer holidays under the gentle Spanish sun. The next edition of F# Weekly will be published on the first of September.

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET Team released fixes for RyuJIT.
• F# 4.0 Signals A Culture Change
• Akka.NET Goes to Wall Street
• Neo4j Type Provider was presented by Peter Bayne.
• Lots of F# courses now available on Pluralsight: take your pick!
• Delegate.Sandbox (IO side-effect free) library was presented.
• Machine Learning in Action – in F#
• FAKE 4.1 is released and allows using F# 4.0 in build scripts. Also support for Squirrel installer
• Multi-stage Programming in F#
• F# is back to the Tiobe language index, above Swift and R.
• Using Deedle from C#
• Changes in atom-fsharp. New syntax highlighting and formatting document
• Tomas Petricek is the Teacher of the Year 2015 Finalist 
• Awesome F# Course made it to the Azure stretch goal
• WebSharper.Charting – a simple radar chart
• FsAutoComplete 0.23 is released. Update for VS2015/F# 4.0 support
• saTrilogy.Etw – F# ETW EventSource

Videos/Presentations

• F# Type Providers: The Current State – Sergey Tihon
• JVMLS 2015 – Compilers are Databases – Martin Odersky

Blogs

• Algebraic type sizes and domain modelling – Scott Wlaschin
• Choosing between collection functions: A guide for the perplexed – Scott Wlaschin
• F#, REPL Driven Development, and Scrum – Jamie Dixon
• Building Azure Service Fabric Actors with F# – Part 2 – Isaac Abraham
• Type Driven Development: composition – Mark Seemann
• Generating emoji art using F# –  Alex Humphrey
• Going Functional : Merge and Quicksort in F# – Pawan Mishra
• Bulk Updating S3 Files in F# with AWS .NET SDK – Cody Sand
• Functional Programming vs OOP – Mike Mogosanu
• Introducing FunSharp – Phillip Trelford
• Unit Testing Your Xamarin Forms Applications With F# And FsUnit – Jon Wood
• F# Card Game Part 2 – Dealing Cards – Reid Evans
• Evaluating mathematical expressions by hand with F# – Ronnie Holm
• F# Friday – Pattern Matching, Part 4: Active Patterns – Brad Collins

F# vNext News

• The last 11 commits to the Visual F# repo were from 11 different contributors living in 9 different countries.
• RyuJIT Bug Advisory in the .NET Framework 4.6
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Have String.ofSeq in the standard library
  • Have String.ofList in the standard library

New releases

• FSharp.Azure.Storage 2.0.0
• FSharp.Azure (deprecated) 1.0.3
• FSharp.QueryProvider 1.0.3
• FSharp.RDF 1.0.71
• FSharp.Qualia 0.1.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #32