Continuing the Advent of Code theme from the previous post. Figured since this year is going to be my year of CUDA, this would be a good opportunity to take it for a ride. A good April 1st post, but why wait? So, how can we make this even faster than the already fast imperative […]

This holiday season my brief indulgence was solving the Advent of Code puzzles. One was about the look-and-say sequence. It starts with “1” and grows as follows: 1 is read off as “one 1” or 11. 11 is read off as “two 1s” or 21. 21 is read off as “one 2, then one 1” […]

In this post, I will show an example of where using unit testing as a design methodology does not work, and how to produce a design for correct code anyway. There is no single design methodology which works for all problems, so it’s useful to have a variety of tools at your disposal. This post is [...]

This is my modest contribution to the F# Advent Calendar 2015. Thanks to @sergey_tihon for organizing it! Check out the epic stuff others have produced so far on his website or under the #fsAdvent hashtag on Twitter. Also, don’t miss the Japan Edition of #fsAdvent for more epicness… Sometime last year, in a moment of beer-fueled inspiration, I ended up putting together @fsibot, the ultimate mobile F# IDE for the nomad developer with a taste for functional-first programming. This was fun, some people creat[...]

This is more for my documentation, but it may help someone else so I'm posting it I had been developing an Umbraco 7.3.1 site locally with no issues. Then I needed to move the database to Azure (version v12). There are sources of information for doing this sort of thing, but the ones I found were out of date or overly complex. This is a straightforward way I've found that works. Open Sql Management Studio (I'm using 2014). Navigate to your Sql database that you want to copy. Right click on the da[...]