Recently I've developed a love for F# and functional programming principals in general. Something about the way I code in those languages makes the code just seem to work the first time. After a short break from c# I came back to it for a project at work and noticed my c# code was just working the first time too. Curious to know why I started reviewing my recent code and found a primary reason for this is a reduced amount of intermediate variables and far greater usage of LINQ's higer order functions a[...]

We have multiple environments where a website needs to be deployed and I've been tinkering with Jenkins trying to find a better way to handle the process. In this post I'll walk through how to create a Jenkins build tasks and then subsequent deploy tasks that take as a parameter a specific Jenkins build so that you're guaranteed to deploy the same binaries across your environments. Jenkins is an open source continuous integration server written on the jvm. It's a mature product with loads of plugins and[...]

5 years ago today, I sent the following bug report to the Powershell team. From: Lincoln Atkinson Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:33 PM To: PowerShell Discussions Subject: Problem with get-date Hey experts, maybe you can help me with this issue. Get-Date seems totally broken for me. I've tried it multiple times with all different … Continue reading Bug with Powershell Get-Date →

5 years ago today, I sent the following bug report to the Powershell team. From: Lincoln Atkinson Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:33 PM To: PowerShell Discussions Subject: Problem with get-date Hey experts, maybe you can help me with this issue. Get-Date seems totally broken for me. I've tried it multiple times with all different parameters, but it's just not working in my environment. I'm still single and I haven't gotten a date in months :-( Get-Help really wasn't useful this time. Funny, since [...]

In our previous post, we looked at James McCaffrey’s code, “Gradient Descent Training Using C#” from MSDN magazine, and took a stab at rewriting the first part in F#, to clarify a bit the way the dataset was created. Today, we’ll dive in the second block, which implements the logistic regression using gradient descent. Again, we won’t discuss why the algorithm works – the article does a pretty good job at that – and focus instead purely on the F# / C# conversion part. Let’s begin by taking a look at the c[...]