Get started with F# on Mac with VSCode and IonideYesterday, a friend of mine asked me what was the easiest way to get started with F# on Mac. I pointed him to http://fsharp.org/use/mac/ which gives multiple options to install F# on Mac but it doesn’t contain the option of using VSCode with Ionide. Since I think it is the most straight forward way to have an environment setup to use of F# rapidly especially when someone wants to just have a quick look, I decide to write a blog post to go through the install[...]

Dealing with stress and anxiety in the Software industryLately I’ve seen a lot of posts about burnout in the the Software industry blogs. Burnout refers to the lost of motivation, hopelessness at work or life, and lost of interest in anything. Stress and anxiety are symptoms which can lead to it.All the articles and blog posts address a real problem in the Software industry - a subject hard to discuss with others. Sharing with colleagues or managers that we are stressed or depressed brings a sentiment of w[...]

Proxies in WebSharper, how, when, where!When I first started to play with WebSharper, everything was nice and clean. I was coding in my own world/sandbox/project whatever you want to call it. But the thing is that most of the time, we don’t start from empty, blank project. What we do instead, is that we write code which integrates with an existing application. I was lucky enough to work on a project with a backend written in F# with a Domain library containing all the application domain written in F# as we[...]

Sort, drag and drop in UI Next with SortableFew weeks ago I covered how to use external JS libraries with WebSharper.I explained how we could integrate tagsinput which is a cool library that allows us to use tags in our webapp. It was used with JQuery and I showed you how we could extended WebSharper JQuery and add tagsinput functionalities.Today I will show you how to use another cool JS library - Sortable. Sortable brings drag - drop - sorting functonalities. Also, it does not require JQuery which is goo[...]

Var, View, Lens, ListModel in UI.NextLast week I needed to make a two way binding for a record with nested lists. More precisely, I needed to observe all changes on this record. This changes included normal members but also lists and I needed to observe changes like adding and removing items.It took me a week to come out with a solution where I had to iterate multiple times to get to it. I started with something which was far from ideal then had a conversation on WebSharper forum with Loïc and István and c[...]