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This is an entry for the F# Advent Calendar 2021, please consider checking out some of the other awesome blog posts. is a nuget package…

This is an entry for the F# Advent Calendar 2020, please consider checking out some of the other awesome blog posts. Modern cloud platforms…

I’ve been using some (f)un-employment time to remind and upskill my knowledge of AWS. I’ve also wanted to try out the framework to build…

I’ve wanted to make an application using the SAFE stack for a while and with our new indoor life it seems a good time to make a multiplayer…

This post details a solution to a problem encountered when running tests in docker that I haven’t seen documented anywhere else. TLDR…

It’s common for software platforms to consist of many deployed services that communicate with each other and connect to resources over the…

This is the final post in a series on a method of automating .net library versioning. The second post describes the proposed automated…

This is the second post in a series on a method of automating .net library versioning. The first post described the synver dotnet tool which…

This is an entry for the F# Advent Calendar 2019. It is the first in a three part series exploring a way of automating .net library…

dotnet has borrowed an idea from the world with the addition of global tools. These allow easy creation of command line tools from…

I’m excited to say that my blog post ‘Running VsTest with Cake’ was published on the Scott Logic technical blog. This post was inspired by…

I’m excited to say that my blog post ‘Magical domain modelling with F#’ was published on the Scott Logic technical blog. This post was a lot…

My parents have a corpus of old photos sitting on the family pc and this weekend I set myself the task of uploading these to google photos…

I debuted my talk ‘Hunting typosquatters with F#’ at the F# Bristol meetup tonight. I was excited to share my work with the group and very…

I’m excited to say that my blog post ‘Hunting typosquatters on npm’ was published on the Scott Logic technical blog. This gives closure to a…

My latest side project has led to me finding an interesting npm package named . The package promises Just import it and all your problems…

I’ve been adding unit test coverage to a project which uses a streaming approach to write potentially big files. With such projects it’s…

I’ve been making a few AWS Lambda functions at work lately, they are very useful at small automation tasks and also gluing different…

I’ve been writing a few nuget packages lately, to try and promote best practices in build and deployment code. Nuget caches packages in…

I often want to check what values are included in the PATH env variable and Powershell provides easy access to this information with . The…

I’m a big fan of powershell. Every now and then I write a function to help me in my day to day work. I plan to write one of these every…

At work we use TeamCity for a CI server. We’ve had a lot of success with it but there are a few issues with the build logic that are…

It seems like a trivial issue, but lately i’ve been thinking about the need to have a sensible naming convention for text log files. The…

I’ve been working a bit too hard lately having extra-curricular powershell fun. The nature of powershell, the fact that basically everything…

I’ve been writing a lot of powershell lately, learning a lot and generally loving it. I’ve also been configuring servers and applications to…

In my day to day it’s not always possible to be able to properly write code in a TDD manner. The lack of existing code coverage, tight…

A sort of new years resolution of mine is to use more powershell and command line in general. I’ve spent a bit of time customising a…

A sort of new years resolution of mine is to use more powershell and command line in general. For this purpose I’ve been trying to supe up…

Counting to 10 in different programming languages. Scratch C# F# python

I have recently finished my first windows phone app. My first experience using an VVM framework and the XAML stack. I learned a few whilst…

I was reading some code recently and was getting pretty sick of this pattern: This checks whether the setting exists in the configuration…

I’m lucky to say that my workhorse language is C#. I’m less lucky to say that the way that this blog currently colours the C# syntax isn’t…

I’m a coder, that’s what I am. That’s what I do and I do it fairly well. As a coder, it’s my responsibility to have a blog about my…

Hello all, today a blog is born! This is all possible from forking the fabulous Jekyll Now repository on GitHub, though i’ll try and…