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A work in progress visualization of freedb (RDF version of wikipedia).
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Working as both a Developer and as a ScrumMaster has skewed my perspective a bit to be dev-team centric, so I recently took SolutionsIQ’s Certified Product Owner course to learn more about the scrum software development process through the eyes of a Product Owner. The course was laid out in a novel way – as a [...]
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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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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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