Well, I didn’t think I would be doing this but heres some of the sessions Im looking forward to watching from this years Build conference. Server / Cloud Obviously first up is the F# 3.0 session by Don Syme, really looking forward to this session! F# 3[...]

Well, I didn’t think I would be doing this but heres some of the sessions Im looking forward to watching from this years Build conference… First up is the Server+Cloud section, this section contains the only F# presentation which is disappointing. Server+[...]

I actually have the last two episodes of my RavenDB series ready to go, but doesn’t seem much point publishing them this week, so here’s a few thoughts on stuff from build and Windows 8 instead. Firstly Windows 8: I thought the build keynotes did a nice [...]

Initially, one of the biggest problems I found when trying to marry records was the god awful quality of much of data I often have to work with. It’s mostly old mainframe and database data with truncated fields, limited character sets and fields with nons[...]

We’ve decided to do it again. After the success of the Functional Programming eXchange 2011 and 2009, we have decided to put on another edition. Functional Programming eXchange 2012 will take place on Friday March 16th March 2012, at the Skills Matter eXc[...]

Problem Each character on a computer is assigned a unique code and the preferred standard is ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). For example, uppercase A = 65, asterisk (*) = 42, and lowercase k = 107. A modern encryption method is[...]

Problem A common security method used for online banking is to ask the user for three random characters from a passcode. For example, if the passcode was 531278, they may ask for the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th characters; the expected reply would be: 317. The text[...]

Problem Some positive integers n have the property that the sum [ n + reverse(n) ] consists entirely of odd (decimal) digits. For instance, 36 + 63 = 99 and 409 + 904 = 1313. We will call such numbersreversible; so 36, 63, 409, and 904 are reversible. Lea[...]

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