Anniversary edition of F# Weekly #43, 2016 – Four years of news

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Welcome to F# Weekly, Full version of this weekly you can read here This is an anniversary edition of F# Weekly, we are together for 4 amazing years! Thank you for reading F# Weekly and for all your contribution to the community. By tradition, in order to celebrate this date, I ask you to join "F# Advent Calendar in English 2016" and make this year Advent unbelievably cool, once again! A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Contribute to the list of awesome F# projects. .NET Core Tooling in Visual Studio "15" VisualStudio 15 has two-level better support for Go and Java than F# New SwaggerProvider site is published! F# on livecoding.tv Expecto (a smooth testing framework for F#) was announced. The week in .NET – Bond – The Gallery ServiceStack is now available on .NET Core! yo aspnet (generator-aspnet) now supports creating F# projects Videos/Presentations Functional Web Development - Tomas Petricek Category Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy Blogs Deploying F# Suave web app to Azure using Flynn - Zohaib Rauf Partial classification active pattern - Vicenç García-Altés Making Users into Agents (A Persistence Layer Takes Shape) - Ernest Pazera More F# colors in the terminal - Julien Roncaglia F# - Basic Merkle Tree - Ramón Soto Mathiesen Writing a PNG Decoder in F#, Part I - Steve Hawley Writing a PNG Decoder in F#, Part II- Steve Hawley An Agent CRUD Business Layer (and FINALLY getting to move onto other things!) - Ernest Pazera Building Services Using Functional Language: Why? and How? - Nikhil Barthwal Functional programming is a tool for thought, imperative programming is a tool for hacking - Victor Baybekov Populating a World, Part One – Sites - Ernest Pazera A Tale in Which Seq.zip and Seq.map Let Me Down and Make Me Run to the Arms of List.zip and List.map - Ernest Pazera Get MAD with Outliers with an Improved Median Function - Anthony Lloyd Implementing Spark Apps in F# using Mobius - Kaarthik Working CryptoPals challenges in F# - Taylor Wood F# SQLProvider+SQLite on the Raspberry Pi - John Reynolds Introducing C# script runner for .NET Core and .NET CLI - Filip W Exploring ServiceStack's simple and fast web services on .NET Core - Scott Hanselman F# vNext F# compiler speeds up fslang.uservoice.com moved to GitHub F# templates for Azure Functions now merged Recently proposed ideas: Custom Query Operators Fails at Runtime? Internal serialization of Async<_> Open source projects expecto - A smooth testing framework for F# with colourful printing (future: proper diffing, parallel tests by default) and frequent releases and a nice expectation API. vagabond - A runtime assembly management library SuaveMusicStore is modified to work with PostgreSQL (rather than Ms/Sql) fsharpperf - A set of performance test scripts for the F# compiler fstoml - Lightweight TOML based F# project file w10wheel.net - Mouse Wheel Simulator New Releases Ionide 2.8.0: Send project references to FSI Generate script with references Nicer tooltips formatting FSharpApiSearch 2.0.0 - fsdn.azurewebsites.net Expecto Expecto 1.0.4 Xamarin.Android .FSharp.ResourceProvider 1.0.0.13 LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.4 Logary v4.0.160 FSharp.SRGen.Build .Tasks 3.1.0 Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion 0.7.1 That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #42 F# Weekly Newsletter by Sergey Tihon