F# Weekly #45, 2015

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Welcome to F# Weekly, Full version of this weekly you can read here 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 F# Weekly Newsletter by Sergey Tihon