The nice thing about Websharper is that you’re released from writing Javascript. As a pet project I was wondering how much effort it would take to write a simple DataGrid in which you can paste clipboard data, which you copied earlier from MS-Excel. If you want to write something ambitious like a project planning tool, then such a paste function could be useful.So what does excel put on the clipboard if select a rectangle of cells and copy it? In the Desktop world one would deal with the D [...]

Will the real actor please stand up? This week I acted because of some nice Fsharp news.First I visited a presentation of Riccardo Terrell about Akka.NET this week. Sergey Tihon’s  weekly newsletter mentioned that Mono 4.0.0 was released.So let us combine that. I installed Mono before and now to upgrade in Ubuntu (as root):apt full-upgrade mono-completeThis takes a while. And now to install Akka.NET. There is a little problem though, you need to get Akka.NET via nuget, and standard t [...]

Recently I've developed a love for F# and functional programming principals in general. Something about the way I code in those languages makes the code just seem to work the first time. After a short break from c# I came back to it for a project at work and noticed my c# code was just working the first time too. Curious to know why I started reviewing my recent code and found a primary reason for this is a reduced amount of intermediate variables and far greater usage of LINQ's higer order functions a[...]

We have multiple environments where a website needs to be deployed and I've been tinkering with Jenkins trying to find a better way to handle the process. In this post I'll walk through how to create a Jenkins build tasks and then subsequent deploy tasks that take as a parameter a specific Jenkins build so that you're guaranteed to deploy the same binaries across your environments. Jenkins is an open source continuous integration server written on the jvm. It's a mature product with loads of plugins and[...]

5 years ago today, I sent the following bug report to the Powershell team. From: Lincoln Atkinson Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:33 PM To: PowerShell Discussions Subject: Problem with get-date Hey experts, maybe you can help me with this issue. Get-Date seems totally broken for me. I've tried it multiple times with all different … Continue reading Bug with Powershell Get-Date →