Deploy your WebSharper selfhosted web app on Azure Last week I talked about how to read text from an image using a OCR library. I explained the whole process of creating the web app but I omitted to explain the deployment to Azure. So today I would like to fill this gap by showing you how I deployed the selfhosted web app on Azure. This web app makes use of the WebSharper selfhost template which

Extract text from images in F# - OCR’ing receipts!Last week I talked about how I used Deedle to make some basic statistics on my expenses.Using my bank statements, I showed how to categorize, group, sum and sort expenses in order to have a better view on where the money goes.It was helpful but I realised that instead of checking each transaction from the bank statement, it would be better to track individual item purchased. A lot of expense trackers work this way. We need to input every expense one by one [...]

A primer on manipulating data frame with Deedle in F#The first time I encountered Deedle was from @brandewinder book Machine learning projects for .NET developers. Deedle is a library which facilitates the manipulation of data frames and data series.http://bluemountaincapital.github.io/Deedle/A data frame is like a table with rows and columns where columns don’t need need to be of same type. A data series is like a vector (an array of values) where each value is itself a key value pair. A very famous data [...]

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[...]