Wednesday, May 23, 2018

FP = Functional PowerShell

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I have been writing a lot of F# the last few years, and this has made me look critically at some of my PowerShell scripts. While we may use ...
Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Still no migration path from PowerPivot + PowerQuery to SSAS Tabular in SQL 2016 (RC0)

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PowerPivot is a great product, and PowerQuery can be fairly awesome as well, but when you run out of steam running your spreadsheet in Excel...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Driving RGB LED strips from the Raspberry Pi - A Brief Overview

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In 2013 I put my first set of programmable Christmas lights together, a very simple project which involved hanging a 5m addressable RGB LED ...
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Thursday, August 14, 2014

SMO issues with SQL 2012 SP2

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After rolling out SQL 2012 SP2 (CU1) across all our environments, we noticed all our TeamCity builds were going a lot slower, or never compl...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

'Specified wildcard pattern is invalid' with Octopus Deploy and PSake

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So we upgraded to Octopus Deploy v2, and all our deployments are now failing with this error: 22/07/2014 11:51:08 AM: An Error Occurred:...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

It's time to bring Data Tainting to the CLR

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Last week's Heartbleed bug once again exposes the shaky foundations of current software development processes. Decades-old issues such ...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Could not load file or assembly ApprovalTests

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If you get the following error when running ApprovalTests ... Could not load file or assembly 'ApprovalTests, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=...
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