Hello! Just to quick shout to say that the slides for my Neo4j talk tonight on modelling and balancing an in-game economy using Neo4j is now available on Slideshare: Modelling Game Economy with Neo4j from Yan Cui You can also watch the recording of the talk on SkillsMatter here. Oh, and did I …
Why does the dog wag its tail? Because the dog is smarter than the tail. If the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog. The phrase wag the dog refers to times when something of a secondary importance improperly takes on the role of something of primary importance. As I watched the recording of …
Suppose you want to merge an assembly A (AssemblyA.dll) with another assembly B (AssemblyB.dll) with ILMerge into a merged assembly (Merged.dll), and everything works fine until the user of your merged assembly also references that AssemblyB.dll, at which point that user will get Ambiguous reference errors for any reference to types defined in assembly B, …
I gave a talk about our use of F# at last year’s CodeMesh event, and the recording is now up on Vimeo. Yan Cui – F# in Social Gaming from Erlang Solutions on Vimeo. You can also find the slides for the talk up on SlideShare: F# in social gaming from Yan Cui
One of the pitfalls with LINQ which I have fallen into on multiple occasions is around the use of the OfType<T> extension method with dictionaries. Either through carelessness or changes to the underlying variable (a class property being changed from list to dictionary for instance) I have ended up using OfType<…> on a dictionary which …
Resharper – Using custom patterns to catch subtle bugs with OfType<T> Read More »
Kevin Montrose’s Jil JSON serializer has now been added to the JSON benchmark tests and the results are really impressive. Kevin has also listed the tricks that he has employed to make Jil fast on the project page, which is well worth a read.
If you have done any DevOps work on Amazon Web Services (AWS) then you should be familiar with Amazon CloudWatch, a service for tracking and viewing metrics (CPU, network in/out, etc.) about the various AWS services that you consume, or better still, custom metrics that you publish about your service. On top of that, you …
Introducing, DSLs to query against Amazon CloudWatch metrics Read More »
I recently reorganized the SimpleSpeedTester project’s structure so that it’s easier to add tests to both the Json and binary serializer benchmarks, and to run the tests is as easy as running the RunBenchmarks.fsx F# script and then choosing which benchmark you’d like to run and then kick back and wait for the results to …
Some time ago I put together a small BERT serializer and BERT-RPC client for .Net called Filbert (which is another name for Hazelnut, that has the word bert and the letter F and at the time every F# library has a leading F in its name!). As an experimental project admittedly I hadn’t given too …
Filbert v0.2.0 – performance improvement on decoding Read More »
Just under three weeks ago, Amazon announced the public availability of their new Kinesis service, a service which is designed to allow real-time processing of streaming big data. As an experiment I have put together a simple, actor-based customer appender for log4net which allows you to publish your log messages into a configured Kinesis stream. …
Introducing log4net.Kinesis, a log4net appender for Amazon Kinesis Read More »
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