GIMP - Alpha channel, what is it? Few months ago I made a first introduction to GIMP - https://kimsereyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/gimps-primary-features.html - the post was oriented toward the toolbox and what features were available. Today I would like [...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Which of these newer programming languages do you prefer? — Microsoft Developer (@msdevUK) December 8, 2016 FsAdvent eBook is available now Azure Notebooks now support F# The road to [...]

Background I’m in the privileged position of receiving more invitations to speak (at conferences, user groups and podcasts) than I can realistically agree to. I’ve decided to start applying some new criteria to how I pick which ones I go to1. However, ove[...]

Transform an operation from a Xamarin.Android activity to an awaitable task Today I want to share a neat trick which I have been using a lot - transform an asynchronous operation (triggered with StartActivityFromResult) from an Android Activity to an awai[...]

We started work on WebSharper 4 more than a year ago, open-sourced it in May and published first beta packages in August. It is a project with a big scope and still some features are planned before we would call it stable. This article is an introduction [...]

Introducing new and improved WebSharper 4 beta features for RPCs: customizing both client and server side.

Tweet ps. look out for all my other solutions for Advent of Code challenges here.   Day 6 See details of the challenge here. The input for today’s challenge looks like this: cmezkqgn nmzrgcft ydpndcps zjihhows kvptxsrx ubbvugwq … Since the only difference[...]

Tweet ps. look out for all my other solutions for Advent of Code challenges here.   Day 5 See details of the challenge here. Let’s start by adding a hash function that’ll take an input string and return the hexdecimal representation of its MD5 hash. From [...]