F# Advent Calendar is an adorable idea, which has become a tradition: F# Advent Calendar in English: 2015, 2014 F# Advent Calendar (in Japanese): 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 Each year we’ve had an incredible Advent full of F# and Christmas spirit. [...]

Both the SQLite database engine and the Raspberry Pi are lean, mean little things, so they are a perfect match for each other. Using F# and SQLProvider under Mono, we get a high level and convenient way to tap into the low cost power of the Pi (though eve[...]

What does DP, DPI, PPI and PX represent in Android? I’ve been playing with Xamarin Android for a while now and one thing that disturbed me when I started was the units of measure. What is the difference between DP, DPI, PPI and PX in Android? I found my a[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News FAQ for .NET Standard (no breaking change between .NET Standard 1.x and 2.0) Vote if you want “F# Support in Azure ML“ VSCode Great Icons set supports icons for Paket files F#, I love[...]

It’s not obvious at first thought that there are applications for generalized regular expression engines. During my career, the regular kind has been the most prevalent kind. For certain problems, there is a simple pattern matching, that regular expressio[...]

It’s not obvious at first thought that there are applications for generalized regular expression engines. During my career, the regular kind has been the most prevalent kind. For certain problems, there is a simple pattern matching, that regular expressio[...]

How to make a splash screen with Xamarin.Android The first time I had to implement a splash screen for a Xamarin.Android app, I was completely lost. Xamarin official documentation is great https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/user_interface/creati[...]

This blog post is an edited and more accessible version of an article Thinking the unthinkable that I recently presented at the PPIG 2016 conference. The original article (PDF) has proper references and more details; the minimalistic talk slides give a [...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News 2016 Community for F# Heroes Ballot Hate user voice for F#? Have your say here! Ionide 2.6.0 is released with CodeLens support showing type signature of functions. Join StackOverflow [...]

Build an accordion view in Xamarin.Forms Few weeks ago I posted about absolute and relative layouts. Layouts are called Layouts because they contain children which are placed in a particular way. Xamarin.Forms has a lot of layouts and views to structure p[...]