# F# Weekly #30, 2020 – Phillip Carter: Five years at Microsoft **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** news\ **Created:** [July 24, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-30-2020-phillip-carter-five-years-at-microsoft/1390 "2020-07-24T17:31:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: **News** - [Five years at Microsoft - Phillip Carter](https://phillipcarter.dev/posts/five-years-at-microsoft.html) - [free-programming-books](https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/free-programming-books.html) - [Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 7](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-5-0-preview-7/) - [ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 5 Preview 7](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/asp-net-core-updates-in-net-5-preview-7/) - [Hybrid Blazor apps in the Mobile Blazor Bindings July update](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/hybrid-blazor-apps-in-mobile-blazor-bindings-july-update/) - [Windows Server Insiders getting gRPC support in Http.sys](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/networking-blog/windows-server-insiders-getting-grpc-support-in-http-sys/ba-p/1534273) **Videos and Slides** - [Playing With Data Access Tools In F#](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/684637886) - Zaid Ajaj - [.NET Rocks: C# 9 with Mads Torgersen](https://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?ShowNum=1696) - [ASP.NET Community Standup - July 21st 2020 - Web Tools with Sayed Hashimi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4yIHg9l4QQ) - [Desktop: .NET Community Standup - July 23rd 2020 - EF Core 5 updates and WPF Roadmap](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QnbYkQ1WNw) - [Visual Studio: .NET Community Standup - July 16th 2020 - Where do my bug reports go?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtXLzbsbF7E) - [Brandon Minnick: The Future of Xamarin - mDevCamp 2020 (Day 1)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixfra5nOxEM&list=PLMfAJy7zhpQlGRckh-uPTVmULLjYB8Tt6&index=6&t=0s) **Blogs** - [Farmer: Simpler ARM deployments with Octopus Deploy](https://octopus.com/blog/farmer-and-octopus-deploy) - Mark HarrisonJuly - [.NET for Beginners](https://dusted.codes/dotnet-for-beginners) - Dustin Moris Gorski - [Creating interactive You Draw bar chart with Compost](http://tomasp.net/blog/2020/youdraw-compost-visualization/) - Tomas Petricek - [How F# made me appreciate JavaScript](https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/how-f-made-me-appreciate-javascript-227260796b70) - Edgar Rodríguez - [Switching comments from Disqus to utteranc.es and importing to Github with F#](https://www.temporalcohesion.co.uk/2020/07/20/switching-comments-from-disqus-to-utterances-importing-with-fsharp) - Stuart Grassie - [WTF is a Computation Expression...](https://simontaite.com/wtf-is-a-computation-expression/) - Simon Taite - [Our journey to F#: Know your shortcuts](https://www.planetgeek.ch/2020/07/15/our-journey-to-f-know-your-shortcuts/) - Urs Enzler - [Effect Programming in C#](https://eiriktsarpalis.wordpress.com/2020/07/20/effect-programming-in-csharp/) - Eirik Tsarpalis - [Use F# and ML.NET to predict New York taxi fares](https://medium.com/machinelearningadvantage/use-f-and-ml-net-machine-learning-to-predict-taxi-fares-in-new-york-bdc8b5176d36) - Mark Farragher - [Using Turbolinks with the SAFE web stack](https://viktorvan.github.io/fsharp/safe-stack-turbolinks/) - Viktor Andersson - [Predict Heart Disease With F# And ML.NET Machine Learning](https://medium.com/machinelearningadvantage/predict-heart-disease-with-f-and-ml-net-machine-learning-a2475edc8d49) - Mark Farragher - [Understanding F# applicatives and custom operators](https://www.softwarepark.cc/blog/2020/7/19/understanding-f-applicatives-and-custom-operators) - Jonathan Channon - [Optical Character Recognition with F# and ML.NET](https://medium.com/machinelearningadvantage/optical-character-recognition-with-f-and-ml-net-b234297fcb61) - Mark Farragher - [Writing more succinct C# – in F# (Part 1)!](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/writing-more-succinct-c-in-f-part-1) - Isaac Abraham **F# vNext** - Merged: [Optimize reflection of F# types](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/9714) > > > .NET @dotnet **GitHub projects** - [fsprojects/awesome-fsharp](https://github.com/fsprojects/awesome-fsharp) - A curated list of awesome F# frameworks, libraries, software and resources. - [GDATASoftwareAG/FuncyDown](https://github.com/GDATASoftwareAG/FuncyDown) - A simple functional library do create Markdown files. - [worldbeater/Live.Avalonia](https://github.com/worldbeater/Live.Avalonia) - Develop multiplatform .NET Core @AvaloniaUI applications with the live reloading feature enabled, using either @reactiveui and C#, or Avalonia.FuncUI and F# 🔥 > **New Releases** - [WebSharper 4.6.7](https://twitter.com/AndrasJanko/status/1285121350911373314) - [fantomas-tool 4.0.0-beta-001](https://www.nuget.org/packages/fantomas-tool/4.0.0-beta-001) - [AltCover 7.1.782](https://twitter.com/stevegilham1/status/1284495769492508672) - [FSharpPlus 1.1.3](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharpPlus/1.1.3) - [FsLibLog 0.5.2](https://t.co/w1Qu9fsO7U) - [Myriad.Sdk 0.4.0](https://twitter.com/7sharp9_dev/status/1285531571555053568) - [Tye 0.4](https://twitter.com/JustinKotalik/status/1285661750503911429) - [YARP preview 3](https://github.com/microsoft/reverse-proxy/releases/tag/1.0.0-preview3) > > That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – [#29, 2020](http://sergeytihon.com/2020/07/17/f-weekly-29-2020-flips-fasaani-algeff-and-memoryvisualizer/)