F# Weekly #16, 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 Campaign process for the 2015 F# Software Foundation Board of Trustees election has begun! F# Community celebrated F# Day! Check out the results of F# Community Survey. Paket 1.0 was released live on stage at fsharpex and looking for testimonials. WebSharper 3.0 is released. WorldBank Type Provider with tooltips and autocomplete running in Atom editor on Linux. Obfuscar 2.0.2 Beta 1 is out with support of obfuscating F# assemblies. You can now request Akka.NET company/meetup presentations and workshops. Elmo (Embeddable Lite Mongo) was announced (implemented in F#) Introduced LLILC - a new LLVM Compiler for .NET. Videos/Presentations/Courses The Big F# and Open-Source Love Story -  Tomas Petricek F# and SignalR for a fast Web - Riccardo Terrell Understanding cancer behaviour with F# - Evelina Gabasova Expression Oriented Programming with F# - Robert Pickering MBrace: harnessing the cloud with .NET - Nick Palladinos Developing Open Source tooling with F#: the story of Visual F# Power Tools - Anh-Dung Phan FAKE – A DSL for build tasks - Steffen Forkmann Computation expression in context : a history of the otter king - Andrea Magnorsky (slides) Meta-Programming Madness with the Mixin Type Provider - Ross McKinlay Railway Oriented Programming - Scott Wlaschin Making world statically typed with F# type providers - Michał Łusiak Introduction to Property-based Testing with F# - Mark Seemann Introduction to Orleankka (Functional API for Orleans actor framework) - Antya Dev Embracing Clouds using F#, {m}-brace and Azure - Alena Dzenisenka Reactive Single-Page Applications with Dynamic Dataflow - Simon Fowler, Loïc Denuzière and Adam Granicz Blogs F# Exchange 2015 - Phil Trelford Basic OWIN Self Host With F# - Mike Hadlow Less is more: language features - Mark Seemann Some(“F#”) is better than None - Shane Charles Updated: F# Neural Networks with FsLab - Sergey Tihon Moving Surge.Core from C# to F# - Alex Hardwicke Super skinny XML document generation with F# - Nathan Evans Trees: I can't be-leaf them - Bret Colloff Websharper Grid: Paste from Excel - Frank Joppe Parsing command line arguments with F# - Jef Cλaes How I compile the HDF5 Type Provider - Robert Nielsen Two More Reasons To Use F# - Jamie Dixon Refactoring McCaffrey’s Regression to F# - Jamie Dixon Do You Know These 5 Projects Open Sourced By Microsoft? - Openness F# vNext News Microsoft Visual F# Tools has had over 175000 downloads since last August. Visual F# Team announced a new much simpler process for CLAs. Visual F# Team locked down the Visual F# codebase, but they are still open for F# bug fixes. Take a look at these F# bugs and join Visual F# Team in trying to get the bug count down before they ship, by fixing a couple. Recently proposed ideas: Override `ToString` for discriminated unions and records New releases Paket 1.0.0 FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack 1.1.3.64 FSharp.RDF 1.0.40 CloudSharper 0.9.30 FSharp.Quotations.Compiler 0.2.0 That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #15 F# Weekly Newsletter by Sergey Tihon