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#, …
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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
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 »
.Net 4 introduced the Lazy<T> type which allows you to create an object that can be lazily initialized so that you can delay the creation of large objects, for instance. However, if your initialization logic has the potential to except at runtime (e.g. time out exceptions reading from some external data source) then you should …
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After a long Easter holiday filled with late night coding sessions I find myself wide awake at 2am… good job I’ve still got my pluralsight subscription and a quick look at the Algorithms and Data Structures course again at least gave me something to do to relax the mind with some back-to-school style implementation of …
I recently co-authored an article with Gael Fraiteur (creator of PostSharp) on how AOP frameworks such as PostSharp can be used to automate the implementation of common design patterns in .Net. The article is now available to view on the InfoQ website here. A more offline friendly PDF version is also available here and from …
I talked about the XML and JSON serialization of F# types in a previous post, and since then F# 3.0 has been released and a new [CLIMutable] was quietly added amidst the hype surrounding the awesome type providers! CLIMutable Attribute When applied to a F# record type, the CLIMutable attribute tells the F# compiler …
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Just a quick note to say that another minor update to DynamoDB.SQL has been release, you can view the release notes here. The latest update adds support for a TSQL style WITH keyword for specifying optional parameters for tweaking the query/scan operation. For queries, you can specify the NoConsistentRead and PageSize options to use …
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