After an 11-hour marathon session at the London GameCraft event yesterday, I am very proud to say that my team’s entry – Agents of P.R.I.S.M was awarded with the MOST INTERESTING INTERPRETATION OF THE THEME award for the theme of the day – Impact of P.R.I.S.M. It was a great day out for the guys …
Problem The primes 3, 7, 109, and 673, are quite remarkable. By taking any two primes and concatenating them in any order the result will always be prime. For example, taking 7 and 109, both 7109 and 1097 are prime. The sum of these four primes, 792, represents the lowest sum for a set of …
We recently found out about an interesting, undocumented behaviour of Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service – that health check pings are performed by each and every instance running your ELB service at every health check interval. Intro to ELB But first, let me fill in some background information for readers who are not familiar …
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Following on from my last post on formatting a Markdown document into PDF using FSharp.Markdown.Pdf, if you don’t like the default styling (which I tried to mimic style Github formats Markdown documents with) you can set your own styling for the different types of Markdown elements by going down a level of abstraction. The FSharp.Markdown.Pdf.MarkdownStyleNames …
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I stumbled across a set of slides with a rather comprehensive overview of the different aspects of S3, worthwhile reading for anyone who works with Amazon S3 regularly. Enjoy! Masterclass Webinar: Amazon S3 from Amazon Web Services
I spent the last couple of nights putting together a simple Markdown to PDF formatter using Tomas Petricek’s FSharp.Formatting project and the PdfSharp-MigraDoc library. To use this library, you can either grab the source from the GitHub repository or get it from Nuget using the following command: F# Usage To use the library from F#, …
F# – PDF fun with Markdown and FSharp.Formatting Read More »
Don Pinto of CouchBase gave a webinar today on some common use cases of CouchBase, with the recording and slides below: Webinar – How Companies Use Couchbase: Common Use Cases from Couchbase
Hi, just a quick note to say that recordings of my talk with Community for F# is now available. In this session, I shared some of our experiences of building a successful MMORPG for a social audience and insights into some of the technical challenges that my team has had to overcome along the way. …
A couple of weeks earlier, Amazon announced support for Local Secondary Indexes (LSI) for DynamoDB. You can now perform fast, efficient queries against DynamoDB tables using attributes that are not part of the existing Hash and Range key model without resorting to the use of scans. As a result to the new feature the DynamoDB …
DynamoDB.SQL 1.2.1 – now supports Local Secondary Index Read More »
Hi, just a quick note to mention that I’ll be talking to Community for F# on the 14th May at 11AM PDT about our experience of building an MMORPG, some of the challenges we face along the way and how F# helps us solve some of these problems. You can register for the event here. …
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