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 [...]

Since day 1 elmish, developed at Prolucid for our front-end applications supported console logging of states and updates taking place in the application. You have to see it to appreciate how powerful of a feature that is and for a while it was enough. Tha[...]

JavaScript cheats. If you want to pass some properties, there’s no need for a type to describe them – just return anything you want inside of curly braces and you are done. Of course there’s a cost, but that not what this post is about. How does one achie[...]

Tweet It’s a new year, a new job, a new language (Scala) and runtime (JVM) to work with. After a week of learning about my new surroundings at Space Ape Games and getting up to speed with Scala I have learnt a fair bit. In my own journey (aided by Twitter[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Welcome to 2017! A retrospective of the past year Frequently asked questions at F# Software Foundation Mostly functional vim emulator written in < 500 lines of F# The week in .NET – O[...]

Get started with SQLite in from Xamarin.Forms Today I demonstrate how we can leverage sqlite to save data on mobile which can be useful for local application or to store cached data. In this post, I will show how we can use Sqlite from Xamarin.Forms in an[...]

I’ve been playing with Affectiva emotion, demographics, and face detection SDK, found it excellent, however, their sample gallery lacks a sample in F#! So here we are to correct that. I just wanted a simple F# script that would let me take all kinds of th[...]

Happy New Year from the F# Software Foundation! As we begin the new year, I thought it'd be nice to look back at some of what we've accomplished in 2016, and provide a small surprise gift for our members as we begin the new year.