I'm no longer blogging on this blog. Please find me here.
All of that there data at JJB Research that I work on - would be delivered in three minutes on this purple monster. I guess I had better place an order for two.
F# 1.1.7.0 (my coverage here) was released in early January with examples of F# and LINQ. Not more than 20 days later, F# 1.1.8.1 is now available. Out with the old and in with the new. And new it is. Dr. Don Syme, on an obviously busy schedule, has posted on his outstanding work on F# and LINQ.
This is Part I of a what appears will be a series of posts on topics in the LINQ initiative and the relative advantage that it provides in .NET and further, the advantages of the use of LINQ in F#.
Those of you that know me, know that I expend a great deal of energy to better my knowledge and understanding in many disciplines. Dr. Syme's comprehensive samples have provided another path of exploration and reduced my costs to learn. I urge you to do the same and take some time to learn from this work.
I'd also be curious to hear what DoubleI, .NET Monkey, The Beer Software Architect Application Services Manager (whose recent alpha release of Codus 1.3 is here; wtg Sean), THE Beer connoisseur (with that spiffy new blog location as moved from here) and others in the everyday professional practice of data manipulation at a high level of competence would think.
Break out the Lederhosen and the funny hats. It's that time of year again. If you live in Milwaukee, the odds are that you have some German heritage. This weekend is German Fest at the Summerfest Grounds. Unlike TechEd, "I'll be There" for German Fest.
For all of the out-of-towners, the Summerfest Grounds are host to Summerfest, a massive music festival with about 350-400 bands playing over an 11-day period in late June, early July. The rest of the summer months at the Summerfest Grounds are allocated to different ethnicities and their appropriate festivals:
- Festa Italiana
- Irish Fest
- Asian Moon Festival
- German Fest
- Polish Fest
- African World Festival
- Mexican Fiesta
- Indian Summer
- Arab World Fest
- Pride Fest (not exactly an ethnicity, but its a festival)
- And many others . . .
Pretty much, these festivals are an excuse to drink significant quantities of beer (with the Miller Brewing guys headquarters in town; yeah that's right, we have the beer and Harley headquarters here), listen to lots of music, dress up in ethnic garb (if that's your thing) and have a good time on the shores of Lake Michigan. Rumor has it that the lower cased one has been to most of these. His favorite, and you can quote him on this: Pride Fest. He especially liked the parade where everyone noticed his "cop" outfit (he's on the far left, but don't let the makeup fool you). I think he even tried to arrest a few people at the end of the parade route when the TS wasn't looking. Luckily, most of these leather-clad men caught on when he flashed his "cop tool belt" (man, I'm gonna get it for that comment).
Seriously, I'm Welsh, Polish and a bit German, so I fit in at most of the festivals. But my favorite is German Fest. The food is a bit expensive, but outstanding German cuisine. My average German Fest weekend for cards, cigars (2-3 per day), beer (very little), soda (lots), food, souvenirs, parking, tickets, etc. is about $350. The main reason that I go this shindig is Sheepshead. For those of you that play this card game, the German Fest tournament is one of the biggest events on any national Sheepshead calendar.
The tournament is split into 29 one-hour sessions played 10-10-9 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Each one-hour session (last year was $2/hour) consists of 15 games of Sheepshead where it is Called Ace-Leasters rules (yup, that is 435 hands of cards over three days for those of you that can multiply). Standard 1-2-3 double on the bump scoring is used. The top player of all tables by points for the hour wi