F# Weekly #14, 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 Are you on the Slack? Do you want to have/to be a mentor? Join F# mentoring program. Visual F# PowerTools v1.8.0 is released - Easter edition with Navigate to Source & many improvements & bug fixes. Mono 4.0.0 is released (some open source Mono code replaced with "more efficient" open source Microsoft code). Xamarin Studio 5.9 was released in alpha channel. It includes a ton of fixes for F# and Xamarin. Mac unified support with templates. The F# Path to Data Scripting Nirvana is top rated and in the top 5 most viewed of dotnetconf. LINQPad 5 will have F# support! Kamil Wojciechowski presented Cronix (CRON like library, which allows to create windows service that will execute user defined tasks at given point in time) Sandor Rakonczai published F# logo in pure CSS “Speed. I am speed.” works for F# like a charm. - Sync.Today Feedback Request - F# Autocompletion for LinqPad Tomas Petricek added API Reference to FSharp.Formatting VB is going all lower case just like С# and F#. Ross McKinlay wrote type provider for Slack. Akka.NET v1.0 is Code Complete. Videos/Presentations/Courses Spinning up "planets" with F# and OpenGL on mono - Mathias Brandewinder Course: Unit Testing with F# -  Mark Seemann Literate_programmin­g.With("F#"­) - Tomas Petricek Blogs Paket package resolution algorithm - Steffen Forkmann Why I Don't Like the C# Language - Warren Young tldr; I ditched $IDE for F#/C# development in Emacs straight. - ioctl Routing in Nancy from F# - Dax Fohl How to use Vagrant and quickly setup a reproducible development environment for FAKE - Steffen Forkmann Creating a crosswalk table between WCPSS School assignment results and school report card school list - Jamie Dixon LambdaCon 2015 - Michael Newton Checked errors in F# - Jef Claes Pattern matching in action using C# 6 - Tomas Petricek Design Pattern: Abstract Factory - Alex Hardwicke Are You My Type? - Dave Thomas Unit Testing with F# Pluralsight course - Mark Seemann Step-10 Refactoring Composition Root - Tamizh Vendan Minsk F# User Group: New logo and wallpapers - Sergey Tihon 4 reasons to write your tests in F# - Claus Sørensen Generating music in F# part 3: Note values - Simo Råman Kick Off Build 2015 with Xamarin! - By Joseph Hill Slides from LambdaCon - Yan Cui Escrevendo testes de unidade com F# - Elemar Júnior F# vNext News An open engineering birthday for Visual F# Please take the time to install the latest Visual F# Tools preview and help find the remaining bugs. Recently proposed ideas: Type parameter grouping Attributes to help resolve type inference Support [<ProjectionParameter>] on non-CustomOperations, eg. for in () do Add `apply` function to Seq, List and Array New releases Paket 0.38.4 FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.87 FSharp.Compiler.CodeDom 0.9.2 FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 1.15.0 FSharp.Control.Reactive 3.1.2 FSharp.Formatting 2.8.0 FSharp.RDF 1.0.35 That’s all for now. Have a great week. ​ Previous F# Weekly edition – #13 F# Weekly Newsletter by Sergey Tihon