GeekFest #4 - Custom Emmet Snippets

In this episode we briefly see how easy it is to create your own custom HTML snippets for Emmet. I really found this useful and hope this can save someone plenty of time,

Break the barriers and tweet longer

It's been a while since I found a decent time to post something useful. As the saying goes: There isn't any better time than the present. So while on my way on a super long flight, to rainy Seattle for the MVP Summit, I've got plenty of time to kill. Just wished I had WiFi earlier...

For the lazy programmer: Using Excel as a code generator

As a 'lazy' programmer, I tend to find creative ways to generate code. One of today's challenges required me to create Enums (each with a description) from code & description pairs of unit measures found inside an Excel spreadsheet containing millions of records (okay I may be exaggerating).

Immediately, my brain started to think about possible solutions like T4 generation or find & replace. Luckily, I remembered I have Excel on my machine. This made things so much easier.

Setting up continuous integration from GitHub to NuGet using MyGet

It's been a while since my last blog post so I decided to dust of my good ol' Blogger account and get to it. I recently relocated from sunny South Africa to begin my brand new career in the beautiful Netherlands and I must say that I'm absolutely loving it!

My first task was to implement continuous integration on one of the (soon to be) open source projects to deliver packages on NuGet. After finding plenty of resources on the web about TeamCity, AppHarbour and Octopus Deploy, I finally decided on using MyGet which delivers a NuGet-as-a-Service experience.

Talking basic F#

In this episode of GeekFest I talk to F# enthusiast Huw Simpson about the basics of F#. He gives us the run down on why functional programming is becoming the new kid on the block and how easy it is to start learning a new language like F#.