F# Weekly #50, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Call for rebooting F# Web Stack, Platform and Tools
• Visual F# Power Tools Team implemented “keyboard shortcuts for collapse, expand regions“
• Peek Definition is in Visual F# Power Tools.
• Check out F# section in The week in .NET – 12/08/2015
• Do not forget 10 more excellent FsAdvent blog posts from the Japanese F#-ers
• New link to FsAdvent RSS feed from @teadrivendev.
• XPlot has progressed far with its docs & functionality. An impressive choice for cross-platform viz with F#
• New website release: www.quantalea.com with a new cheap basic edition for AleaGPU
• The dotnet cli offers a new way to build .Net apps.
• Open Source .NET – 1 year later

Videos/Presentations

• Keynote: The Past, Present, and Future of Visual F# – David Stephens
• Park Bench Discussion with Don Syme
• F# Interactive running on CoreCLR

Blogs

• Powering F# Development on Visual Studio Code with Ionide – InfoQ
• Application contracts with Swagger powered APIs for .NET or Why SwaggerProvider – Sergey Tihon
• What’s the time Mr Wolf? – Aaron Powell
• F#, .NET and the Open Source situation – Isaac Abraham
• A Quick Look At F# In Visual Studio Code – Jonathan Wood
• Christmas Trees in WPF using FSharp.ViewModule – Reed Copsey, Jr.
• The trips and traps of creating a Generative Type Provider in F# – Peter Bayne
• Algo Trading with F# and GPUs – Daniel Egloff (code)
• Making Busy Progress in F# – @TeaDrivenDev
• Providing Value with Trivial Abstraction in F# – Reid Evans
• What’s new in F# 4.0 in Visual Studio 2015 – Eriawan Kusumawardho
• Solving the Santa Claus Problem in F# – Riccardo Terrell
• More Computation expressions – Andrea Magnorsky
• Annoucing @mavnn Ltd – Michael Newton
• Exercises in Programming Style–Things – Yan Cui
• Disinherited Types – Phillip Trelford
• MSDNify Types – Phillip Trelford
• Practical Persimmon.Dried #FsAdvent – Gab-km
• Higher order functions, what are they? – Nicolas A Perez
• Community for F# Activity – Ryan Riley
• Thirteen ways of looking at a turtle – addendum – Scott Wlaschin
• Progressive F# Tutorials London 2015 – Jamie Dixon
• Extracting information from your code repository using F# – Part 1: parsing the log file – Vicenç García-Altés

F# vNext News 

• F# Open Standup: Monday 12/14/2015 — 10:00 AM PT 10:30 AM PT
• Visual F#: Adopt code of conduct
• PR needs testing: WIP: Fix 640 – parameter intellisense for static parameters to methods
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • respect multi-line triple quoted strings indentation
  • interpret `do! action` as `let! () = action in zero` when the Builder has no Return defined

Open source projects

• Persimmon – a test framework for F#
• disinherit – an F# Type Provider that proxies existing types hiding inherited members
• msdnify – an F# Type Provider that groups type members into methods, properties & events
• generator-fsharp – F# Yeoman Generator
• minecraft-map-manipulator – code for reading and writing Minecraft region files
• Owin.Compression – compression (Deflate / GZip) module for Microsoft OWIN Selfhost filesystem pipeline.
• linqoptimizer – an automatic query optimizer-compiler for Sequential and Parallel LINQ
• MSHealthTypeProvider – an F# type provider for the MS Health API ( https://developer.microsoftband.com/cloudAPI )
• grnline.fs – A tiny command line tool for Groonga.

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 1.4.2.2
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.5
• SwaggerProvider 0.1.3-beta
• ScanRat 0.5.0
• FSharp.Actor-logary 3.5.0
• FSharp.QueryProvider 1.0.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #49