Drag and Drop Batch Files
This is a little trick that can make dealing with batch files a real breeze.You can make a batch file support drag and drop.Here I’ve create a simple batch file that takes in a single argument tells...
View ArticleXMAS Pi Fun
I’ve had a few days off over XMAS, so I decided to have a play with my Raspberry Pi and the 3D XMAS Tree from ThePiHut.com.With my (very) basic Python skills I managed to come up with a way of using a...
View ArticleYou might not be seeing exceptions from SQL Server
This post describes a problem I noticed whereby I wasn’t seeing errors from my SQL code appearing in my C#/.NET code.I was recently debugging a problem with a stored procedure that was crashing. I...
View ArticlePlaying with Fable and the SAFE Stack
I’ve recently started looking at Fable as way to use F# to write Web Apps.For the past 2 years I have had a game that I wrote in TypeScript as a playground for learning more about the language....
View ArticleSanta's Xmas List in F# and Fable
This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar 2018. Many thanks to Sergey Tihon for organizing these.So this year I decided to write something for the F# Advent Calendar, and even though I picked a date...
View ArticleDeploy a website for a Pull Request
Some of my colleagues shared a great idea the other day for one of our internal repositories…Spin up a new website for each PR so you can see what the finished site will look like.I really like this...
View ArticleSetting up my Ubiquiti Network
For a while now, I’ve been having problems with my Virgin Media Super Hub 3 and the Wifi randomly dropping out. At first I attributed it to bad devices (old 2Ghz stuff), and wasn’t that bothered as I...
View ArticleXmas List Parser
This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar 2019. Many thanks to Sergey Tihon for organizing these.Last year I wrote an app for Santa to keep track of his list of presents to buy for the nice children...
View ArticleSnowPi in F#
This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar 2020. Many thanks to Sergey Tihon for organizing these. Go checkout the other many and excellent posts.SnowPi RGBBack in July I got an email from KickStarter...
View ArticleAccess modifiers
This post is inspired by and in response to Pendulum swing: internal by default by Mark Seemann.Access modifiers in .NET can be used in a number of ways to achieve things, in this post I’ll talk about...
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