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We’ve held back on going fully AWS as trying to get terabytes of data over to them would have been a colossal waste of time/money over a network connection. Today, Amazon web services announced they can receive USB 2/esata devices up to 8U high if you want to load up large data sets into [...]
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Bethany Leffler stopped by last week to deliver a talk about machine learning. We’re all pretty comfortable with systems where you predefine a (possibly very complex) set of rules to handle whatever data will be thrown at it. Bethany’s area of expertise is in situations where you want the machine to figure things out for [...]
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Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) adds extensions to the .NET framework which provide a domain specific language for querying and transforming collections right within C# (or VB for that matter). It provides syntax similar to other 4GL querying languages such as SQL, HQL or even OQL. Below is a simple test case showing how to do LINQ [...]
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Some recent project work in C# unearthed a few grains of syntactic sugar which I thought deserved a quick post. Not necessarily because they are ground breaking discoveries, but more because I found it difficult to find information via the usual channels (google) and wanted to share. I think the poor information discovery is a [...]
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Last night marked the return of the GroovyVan meetups for this year. We had a small but enthusiastic turn out to hear Jerome Pimmel provide an enlightening talk on Behaviour Driven Development (in particular easyb) and myself give a lightning talk on the testing features built into the new Grails 1.1 release. Discussions spilled over [...]
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