Tweet Note: read the whole series here.   Last time around we looked at Scala’s Case Class in depth and how it compares to F#’s Discriminated Unions. F# also has Active Patterns, which is a very powerful language feature in its own right. Unsurprisingly, [...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Customizable naming rules came to FSharpLint Azure Functions F# Developer Reference F# for Azure Notebooks The Visual Studio Test Platform (VSTest) is now Open Source The week in .NET[...]

Create a Splash screen for your Xamarin.iOS app to be used with Xamarin.Forms project Few weeks ago I explained how we can create a splash screen for Android. Xamarin.Forms takes few seconds to load at each start so it is important to provide a feedback t[...]

After a bit of discussion and debate a few of us have decided to go ahead with the Detroit Day of Functional on March 25, 2017. Detroit Labs is kind enough to let us borrow their space for the day so that’s where we’ll have it. We’re charging $30 a ticket[...]

A LONG TIME AGO, IN A GALAXY FAR AWAY….. Having infiltrated the Empire’s data centre, you are not overly surprised to discover they are using some ancient system from the old republic days.  A brief look around reveals a monstrous legacy Empire Enterpris[...]

Tweet Note: read the whole series here.   Continuing on from where we left off with traits last time around, let’s look at Scala’s case class/object which can be used to create Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) in Scala.   Case Class You can declare an ADT in F[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News What .NET Developers ought to know to start in 2017 SIMDArray F# library is now on fsprojects The week in .NET – On .NET with Reed Copsey, Jr., Orchard Harvest, Ammy, Concurrency Visu[...]

Use FontAwesome on your Xamarin.iOS app with Xamarin.Forms Few weeks ago I explained how we could use FontAwesome from our Droid project, you can read the post here. Following the same idea, today I will explain how we can use FontAwesome on an iOS app wi[...]

Over the last few days I have been learning Racket, a language derived from Scheme.  The main selling point of Racket is its extensive macro system that lets you do everything from the simplest macros through to redefining the entire language (yes you can[...]

Tweet Note: read the whole series here.   Continuing on from where we left off with type inference last time around, let’s look at a language feature in Scala that doesn’t exist in F# – traits. Scala has both abstract classes and traits (think of them as [...]