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 »
I stumbled across this little gem the other day – websocketd – which turns anything that takes standard-in and standard-out into a websocket server! To build a dead simple echo server, follow these steps: follow the download instructions here (don’t forget to add it to your PATH) create a new console application in Visual Studio …
Echo websocket server using websocketd – as if by magic! Read More »
Hi everyone, happy new year! I was really glad to find a couple of days to work on some of my open source projects and put together a new version of DynamoDB.SQL which brings it inline with the latest version of the .Net AWSSDK amongst other things. You can download and install it from Nuget …
I work with Amazon S3, and indeed many of the Amazon’s cloud services, and one of the things that is often frustrating in my day-to-day workflow is the need to keep jumping out of the IDE, find the files I’m looking for in a S3 explorer, grab the key to the file and then go …
Just a quick note to say that slides for my F# in Social Gaming talk at the recent CodeMesh conference is now available on SlideShare and that recording of the talk will be available on InfoQ at a later date. F# in social gaming from Yan Cui
Hello, just a quick word to say that slides for my F# in the Cloud and at Scale talk at the recent F# in Finance event is now available on SlideShare and that I’ll be talking about our use of F# in building social games at CodeMesh next week. F# in the cloud from Yan …
Slides for F# in Finance talk and CodeMesh next! Read More »
I have just published version 0.3.0 of stream_ext, my attempt to port the Rx APIs to Dart. In this version I have added a number of additional methods to the existing set of: average buffer combineLatest concat delay max merge min repeat sample scan startWith sum throttle window zip amb StreamExt.amb has the following …
Here Be Monsters is one year old! Big things are happening behind the scenes in the world of our episodic MMORPG Here Be Monsters, since the beta started back in September 2012 we have attracted a small but dedicated group of players who have watched the game grew with us and who has lived through …
Lately I’ve been making steady progress in porting over Rx APIs over to Dart with stream_ext, and with the release of version 0.2.0 a few more Rx methods have been added to the existing set of buffer, combineLatest, delay, max, merge, min, scan, sum, throttle, window and zip. average StreamExt.average has the following signature: …
Using StageXL and Dart, I built another mini-game themed around our MMORPG Here Be Monsters this week. The game follows a pack of Taotie monsters, which is a type of spirit monster created when a ghost with immense hunger possesses a Chinese pot. Taotie originates from Chinese folklores and is one of many monsters that …
Run Taotie Run – new Here Be Monsteres mini-game made with Dart and StageXL Read More »
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