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Active Pattern I gave a talk on Beyond the Basics with F# at Prairie Dev Con Regina in October 2018. I was approached after the talk by …
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I went looking for mapi in C# and found it as an overload of LINQ Select. As I worked away, I got thinking about the Rangify kata we …
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We were recently having a discussion in the Winnipeg .Net user group Katas channel, someone mentioned having a task to pretty print …
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I always seem to end up writing the same adapter functions over and over again when starting a new project. The functions are usually …
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We left off with a working solution for parsing either “po/k”, “x4/0”, and “s12” into our choice …
2 min read F#, Development, Functional

I had used regular expression to process the inputs for Advent of Code 2017 Day 16. I thought it would be a good learning example to …
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I like exploring ideas and new libraries using the REPL (Read Evaluate Print Loop). There’s something about being able to get …
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Advent of Code 2017 Day 3 part 2 was quite the gruelling exercise. We needed to locate the first memory value larger than the input we …
2 min read F#, Development, Functional

Day 3 part 1 was about calculating the Manhattan Distance for a specific memory location to memory location 1. The memory blocks are …
3 min read F#, development, functional

This is my first foray into blogging. Be forewarned this is TL;DR and it’s about me and how I got to where I am now. I am an …
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