Moving the blog

I have moved my blog to Jekyll and onto a new URL: https://pavkam.dev. See you there!

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Dipping my toes into the lands of F# and functional programming

Mid-2018, after quite some time spent in C# and Azure lands I decided it was time for a change. The next job, I said to myself, is going to have at least one new tech element to it….

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Where is the Microsoft development stack?

I have recently read this blog post that looks at the current development stacks used by biggest startups “out there“. One thing becomes apparent: none of Microsoft’s tech is in any list. To be honest this is not…

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Hi Linux, again! (Ubuntu 18.04 on Dell XPS 9350)

Once every N years I give Linux a try. I’ve been a great supporter in the past and I always enjoyed tinkering with my OSes. I gradually lost the appetite due to jobs always requiring a windows PC,…

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On how I “started embracing” dynamic languages

I will start by saying that that I do not have anything new to add to the everlasting “dynamic vs static binding” debate: It’s been talked about to death at this point, and yeah, I am still well…

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Introducing (very late!) XtraLiteTemplates for .NET (4.5+ and Core 2.0+)

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Well, to begin, this is not a new project – I have developed most of it during the end of 2015 with occasional fixes and new features along the way (recently added support for DLR and dynamic objects)….

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Rate limiting an Azure queue

In my previous post (“Singleton” Azure Functions) I offered a tip on how to set up an Azure function to serve as a system-wide “singleton”. One of the use cases I was looking for was to set up…

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“Singleton” Azure Functions

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This is not the sort of “stuff” I would usually be writing about in the past. Lately, though, more and more work that I am involved with is somewhat related to Azure. More often than not, my daily tasks…

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TZDB 1.8.2018c available

Just a short announcement — after quite a few years (4 to be exact) of inactivity, Michael Taylor has graciously evicted some bugs from the TZDB code base and also upgraded the IANA database to 2018c version (released…

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Bringing the blog back to life…

I'm back baby!

Well, it has been years (apparently no less than four!). Since my last post a lot has changed for me in particular, and, in tech at large. So why hasn’t Alex been blogging one might not ask, and…

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