As my former boss and mentor used to say, in order to understand recursion one must first understand recursion. This is funny, ha-ha, but if we tweak it slightly we get a really useful statement: in order to understand dynamic programming, one must first understand recursion. Here is an example. Sources Github: http://github.com/fierval/BioInfo Decomposition Problem […]

Successive arguments should be separated by spaces or tupled, and arguments involving function or method applications should be parenthesized If you're new to F# you may have seen this exception on your code and started adding parenthesis and commas all over the place to get it to go away. Or perhaps you simply had no idea why the compiler wasn't happy. In this short article I'll show some code that causes the compiler error and an easy way to resolve it. let upcoming = getUpcoming DateTime.UtcNow.[...]

Over the past several month I’ve been prototyping various aspects of  an IoT platform – or more specifically, exploring the concerns …Continue reading →

Over the past several month I’ve been prototyping various aspects of  an IoT platform – or more specifically, exploring the concerns …Continue reading →

In Code First Entity Framework models, you can define the length of a string field with StringLengthAttribute, but you have to write code in OnModelCreating to indicate a CHAR/NCHAR fixed length field: public class MyEntity { [Key] public int Id { get; set; } [StringLength(2)] public string FixedLengthColumn { get; set; } } public partial class MyContext : DbContext { public virtual DbSet MyEntities { [...]