F# Weekly #38, 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 Ionide - a suite of packages built on top of the Atom editor that allow cross platform F# development. (upcoming FsReveal integration) Microsoft Research is working on an open-source distributed analytics platform, codenamed Prajna, that is similar to Apache Spark, and meant for building distributed cloud services. Paket 2.0 + compatible VisualStudio and Atom addins (dependency groups were introduced) Please help to improve the Xamarin F# experience by answering this quick survey. edX F# course starts on Sept 28 Some reasons to consider HOPAC. New Visual F# PowerTools small feature: go to referenced files from #load inside fsx scripts. NuGet packages from .NET world. Videos/Presentations Little Introduction To Functional Programming & WCF Example in F# - Enrico Benini Microsoft Data Science Technologies: Architecture Edition - Mark Tabladillo Powering the Internet of Things - Roger Lipscombe Brave New OCaml World - Marek Kubica Blogs Strengthening the building blocks of the digital world through research-industry collaboration - Don Syme Creating web sites with Suave: How to contribute to F# Snippets - Tomas Petricek Interview with Adam Granicz on WebSharper 3 - Pierre-Luc Maheu Drone Builder - A Story of Drones, React, and F# - Frank A. Krueger An Actor model example with Akka.NET - Claus Sørensen Functional error handling – parsing command line arguments in F# - Leif Battermann Exercises in Programming Style–Monolith - Yan Cui Try WebSharper: on-hover type info - István Gansperger F# Friday – The Seq.skip Function - Brad Collins Cross-platform C# and F# in 2015 - Tim Jones F# vNext News Thank you Lincoln Atkinson for all that you have done for F#! Recently proposed ideas: Consolidate F# expression trees (Expr) with System.Linq.Expressions easier interop with FSharp.Core from other .net languages New releases Paket 2.2.1 FSharp.Azure .Storage 2.1.0 FsPickler v.1.4.0 EtoForms v2.1 That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #37 F# Weekly Newsletter by Sergey Tihon