A blog about software development, by Stuart Grassie
As part of modernisng, updating and generally overhauling my blog, I thought it would be nice to add some consistancy to the Yaml front matter used by Jekyll. For those who do not know, Jekyll uses Yaml front matter blocks...
Many years ago, after working in my first programming job for a couple of years the company was taken over, and coding tests for new hires were introduced. The incumbent developers all decided to take the test, and it was...
There are lots of blog comment systems, and this blog has used Disqus as the comment system for a long time. I’m not going to go into all the reasons to move away from Disqus, but page load times and...
I’ve been upgrading part of our build infrastructure to handle the ongoing upgrade to .net core, and as part of that, I’ve had to update the Cake build script to handle doing the restore in an offline environment, on the...
In the previous post, I displayed my fledgling understanding of F# by writing a script which can parse the CSV set of results of the English Premier League to generate the league table. The script does this primarily by using...