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Setup an Ubuntu server at Digital Ocean
This post is part of a series on Turbocharging WordPress with NGINX and HipHopVM but also serves as a standalone beginners guide to getting an Ubuntu server ready at Digital Ocean. Virtual machines are...
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What to do before your iTunes Match subscription expires
At $25 a year the iTunes Match service can be a little tough to swallow given all it does is synchronize your music across iTunes especially when other file-sharing services are cheaper and more...
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Optimizing Sum, Count, Min, Max and Average with LINQ
LINQ is a great tool for C# programmers letting you use familiar syntax with a variety of backend systems without having to learn another language or paradigm for many query operations. Ensuring that...
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Sequence averages in Scala
I’ve been learning Scala and decided to put together a C# to Scala cheat sheet. All is going pretty well but then I got stuck on the equivalent of Average. Enumerable.Average in .NET calculates a mean...
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Revitalizing a BBC Micro
Moving house means making possessions count so my collection of vintage computers has shrunk over the years and the bar keeps getting higher. Right now: It works – Test it, repair it or part with it....
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Make Home & End keys behave like Windows on Mac OS X
I’ve been using Mac OS X daily since 2001 when I purchased my Titanium PowerBook and I still can’t get used the home and end key behavior. If, like me, you want Home to send you to the start of the...
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Quality of SSL protection for US financial institutions
Troy Hunt put together a list of top Australian banks and their SSL rating using the Qualys SSL Server Test that reveals the somewhat depressing state of SSL security of various banks down under. This...
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Table per hierarchy in Azure Table Storage
If you’re coming from an ORM background to Azure Table Storage you might be wondering how to map class hierarchies to tables. Documentation on the topic is hard to find unless you know the magic class...
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Time window events with Apache Spark Streaming
If you’re working with Spark Streaming you might run into an interesting problem if you want to output an event based on a number of messages within a specific time period. For example: I want to send...
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Notes on Edward Tufte’s Presenting Data and Information
Here are my notes from today’s event by renowned statistician Edward Tufte – author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and Envisaging Information primarily for my own reference but...
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Monitoring URLs for free with Google Cloud Monitor
As somebody who runs a few sites I like to keep an eye on them and make sure they’re up and responding correctly. My go-to for years has been Pingdom but this year they gutted their free service so...
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Random tips for PowerShell, Bash & AWS
Now freelance again I find myself solving a variety of unusual issues many of which I could find no online solutions for. Given these no doubt plague other developers let’s share! Pass quoted args from...
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Typography in bits: For a few pixels more
It’s been a while since I visited the bitmap fonts of old computers (see the bottom of the post for links) there are still some to look at! There are a lot of subtle variations here as machines often...
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Download files with progress in Electron via window.fetch
Working on Atom lately I need to be able to download files to disk. We have a couple of ways to do this today but they do not show download progress which leads to confusion and sometimes frustration...
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Differences between Azure Functions v1 and v2 in C#
I’ve been messing around in the .NET ecosystem again and have jumped back in with Azure Functions (similar to AWS Lambda) to get my blog onto 99% static hosting. I immediately ran into the API changes...
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Model binding form posts to immutable objects
I’ve been working on porting over my blog to a static site generator and fired up an Azure Function to handle the form-comment to PR process to enable user comments to still be part of the site without...
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Comma-separated parameter values in WebAPI
The model binding mechanism in ASP.NET is pretty slick – it’s clever and highly extensible and built on TypeDescriptor system for all sorts of re-use that lets you get out of having to write...
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