F# Weekly #47, 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 Two free slots in F# Advent Calendar in English 2015! Ionide-fsharp is now in VS Code (with FAKE and Paket plugins). Join the Ionide family and contribute! New free ebook: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with F# by Tomas Petricek Xebec is coming! Mono 4.2 is now in the stable channel Machine Learning in Action - in F# How does Paket stack up against NuGet 3's project.json? Vote if you like: Octopus Deploy - Allow the use of F# script (.fsx) in place of Powershell/ScriptCS Test-Driven Development with F# is free with VS Enterprise We're looking for someone who volunteers to update FAKE's NUnit helper to v3 F# FunScript Office365 Add-in Videos/Presentations Lean and Functional Programming - Bryan Hunter Types + Properties = Software - Mark Seemann Panel Discussion Code Mesh (Tony Hoare, Don Syme, Joe Armstrong, Josh Watzman) Welcome/Introduction and Doing Data Science with FsLab - Tomas Petricek, David Stephens, Brody Berg Crunching through big data with MBrace, Azure and F# - Mathias Brandewinder Functional Geekery Episode 35 – Rachel Reese Getting Started with Visual F# - David Stephens Generative Art - Functional Vilnius 2015 - Phillip Trelford Blogs Understanding Parser Combinators - Scott Wlaschin Implementing F# interactive intellisense support for Visual Studio - Aleksey Vlasenko Npm build with F# FAKE - Tomas Jansson T4 Generates my business objects for me revisited with F# - Brandon D'Imperio A Few Hours With….F# - Bear & Hammer F# + ML |> MVP Summit - Tomas Petricek Kafka/Visual Studio Code/OSS… Distributed Consensus, Things to Learn - Composite Code Release of MBrace 1.0, a Distributed Programming Framework for .NET - Pierre-Luc Maheu Generic lenses for F# record-types - Dominic Graefen F# tackles James Bond - Evelina Gabasova Constructing lenses using quotations -Mark Watts F# Friday – Array.splitAt - Brad Collins F# vNext News  F# Open Standup: Monday 11/23/2015 --- 10:00 AM pt 10:30 AM pt The MSDN overview docs for the F# language are now open source and accepting pull requests F# for CoreCLR Status Merged: Migrate Cambridge test suite (tests/fsharp) runner to NUnit Recently proposed ideas: Add function parameter default value shorthand Open source projects freya - functional-first web stack, including an HTTP finite state machine, built on top of OWIN Exira.SimpleHttpServer - a simple HTTP server to serve static files Exira.StaticMailer - a REST endpoint running in a Windows Service to enable static sites to easily send mail. fscontrol - An F# base library with standard ad-hoc polymorphic functions over primitive types mitls-fstar - TLS implemented in F* telefone - Telegram bot library in F# Fun Basic vim-fsharp - F# bindings for vim MBrace.AWS - MBrace runtime implementation targeting Amazon Web Services New Releases FSharp.Control.AsyncLazy 1.2.0 SwaggerProvider 0.1.1-beta GeographicLib.FSharp 0.0.151117.45 FSharp.RDF 1.1.97 Akka.NET .FSharp.API.Extensions 0.1.0.2 MBrace.Azure v 1.1 FSharp.Dnx 1.0.0-beta1 FSharp.Configuration 0.5.7 MBrace.Azure 1.1.4 FSharp.IO.FileSystem 1.1.0 That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #46 F# Weekly Newsletter by Sergey Tihon