The new mission, or as some may call it, a job! The context for those that might not be familiar with my adventures is that I’ve been working independently as a consultant, contractor, community builder, beer drinker, hacker, teacher, trainer, mentor, curriculum builder, and training content creator. The last time I held something that resembled... Continue reading →

One extremely useful tool to use with F# is Paket. Paket is a package manager that provides a super clean way to manage your dependencies. Paket can handle everything from Nuget dependencies to git or file dependencies. It really opens up your project capabilities to easily pull in and handle dependencies, whereever they are located.... Continue reading →

The easiest implementation of a docker container with Postgresql that I’ve found recently allows the following commands to pull and run a Postgresql server for you. docker pull postgres:latest docker run -p 5432:5432 postgres Then you can just connect to the Postgresql Server by opening up pgadmin with the following connection information: … Continue reading →

Just about 4 weeks ago now I purchased a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition directly from Dell. The reason I purchased this laptop is because of two needs I have while traveling and writing code. I wanted something small, compact, that had reasonable power, and… It needed to run Linux (likely Ubuntu, but I’d have... Continue reading →