F# Weekly #45, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The last chance to jump into F# Advent Calendar in English 2015 and open it together with Rachel Reese.
• Proof of concept for running Suave on Docker with Paket.
• “Accessing Data with #fsharp Type Providers” is now live on Pluralsight
• SharePoint Add-ins in F# using WebSharper UI.Next
• Lots of F# Enhancements in Preview Release: Xamarin Studio 6.0
• It would be great if people could update http://fsharp.org/use/linux with info on F# + Docker, or add a new guide here http://fsharp.org/use/Docker.
• Towards an HDF5 type provider in FSharp.Data.Toolbox
• Paket reached 300k downloads!
• Report: Jet Lands $500 Million In Funding From Fidelity
• Jet.com to Raise Funds Valuing the Amazon Rival at $1.5 Billion

Videos/Presentations

• F# Cloud Programming – Real World Topics – Yi Wei
• Machine learning with F# and Accord.NET – Alena Dzenisenka
• Iterazione di Game of Life in Fsharp – Tony X
• “Putting fun into data analysis with F#” talk at Oredev 2015 -Evelina Gabasova
• Patterns and practices for real-world event-driven microservices – Rachel Reese
• Real-time democratizing of event-driven big data – Rachel Reese

Blogs

• Creating a Code Analyzer using F# – John Koerner
• 2D Character Design With F# And GDI+ – Mohammad Shuvo
• Exercises in Programming Style–Infinite Mirror – Yan Cui
• Options pricing in F# – Jan Fajfr
• Automating Xamarin Builds With FAKE – Part 3: Building And Running Unit Tests – Jon Wood
• Writing Xamarin.Forms Apps in F# – Сharles Petzold
• Data-aware workbooks and client-side data access with WebSharper.Data – Adam Granicz
• Exercises in Programming Style–Kick Forward – Yan Cui
• F# Friday – Code That Looks Like Math – Brad Collins
• F# Coding Dojo – Fractal Forest – Raouf Chebri
• Lunchtime LINQ Challenge #2 Answers in F# – Mark Heath
• XPlot ‘hello world’ – Using Google Charts – Leif Battermann
• Магия треугольника Серпинского в функциональном стиле -Митя Сошников

F# vNext News 

• How to contribute to F#? Add more linters to F# PowerTools.
• Samuel Bronson is taking the scalpel to the F# build scripts, wish him luck and encouragement here
• Paddy McDonald is migrating Visual F# unit tests to Xunit 2.0 so they will work on coreclr
• Huge effort by Enrico Sada in porting the main F# tests from scripts to NUnit & then xUnit.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Allow upcast in type test pattern (inside computation expression)
  • add Async.Choice to FSharp.Core

Open source projects

• zerotonine – a tool for maintaining .NET Assembly versions across multiple files
• fpworks – repository hosting the open-source Nu Game Engine and related project
• prajna – a distributed functional programming platform for interactive big data analytics and cloud service building
• RouteProvider – a type provider for web routing
• exchange2crm – Sync.Today Lite for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Import Office 365 Exchange Contact to Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Hopac – a Concurrent ML style concurrent programming library for F#
• FSharp.NeuralNetwork – a simple neural network framework for F#
• SketchBot – a robot of sorts to drive an Etch-a-sketch
• ArithmeticEvaluation – very nice example of using F# fslex and fsyacc
• cantos – F#st and furious static website generator
• clonalanalysis – Bayesian estimation of parameter likelihood for a simple model of clonal development
• MicroCS – Micro C# Compiler
• visualfsharp-docker – Visual F# on CoreCLR
• fsautocomplete – F# compiler service API exposed via a console application
• FsMachines – a stream processing library for F#

New Releases

• FAKE 4.8 with RoboCopy and npm support
• FsCheck 2.2.1
• FsUnit 1.4.0
• Gluon 1.0.0
• F# Azure Storage Type Provider 1.4.0
• FeldSpar Test Framework for F# 1.1.0
• FSharp.RDF 1.1.95
• FSharp.ORM 1.1.0
• Suave 0.33.0
• SwaggerProvider 0.0.2-alpha

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #44