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    Data mining Split Ticketing Information

    by  • May 18, 2012 • 0 Comments

    In my last blog post I talked about what data I would need to go about building a Split Ticketing website, where you split up your train journey into multiple segments to reduce the overall cost. To do this I first off needed to find out information about train stations, particularly where they all...

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    How to design a Split Ticketing website algorithm

    by  • May 15, 2012 • 0 Comments

    I recently got introduced to the concept of Split Ticketing, where you split up your train journey into multiple segments to reduce the overall cost. This may seem strange, but it is in part due to reducing the flexibility of your route, and by doing this you can reduce the cost. This got me...

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    C# 5 …carry on awaiting

    by  • May 4, 2012 • 0 Comments

    This made me chuckle when I saw this. .Net 4 has the awesome Task.Factory.StartNew and .Net 4.5 added the syntactic sugar of Task.Run, but if you combine it with some of the functionality in C#5 the following code:   When unwrapped becomes:   Yes you are seeing right, you are awaiting the await… Task.Factory.StartNew is...

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    My Week via Instagram

    by  • April 29, 2012 • 0 Comments

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    I thought I would go all out hipster and blog using Instagram shots that I have taken during the week. Although I like Instagram, I do find it limiting and I usually just use the original photo, what I find great about it is how easy it is to post to both Twitter and...

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    You sunk my Battleship

    by  • April 18, 2012 • 0 Comments

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    Creedence Clearwater Revivals song Fortunate Son clearly sums up what I thought of the film as a whole, but not the song itself; I love a bit of Creedence, but the fact they used it in the film baffled me. If you don’t understand, read the lyrics past the first verse and then understand that this...

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    Bry’s Cupcakes of tasty joy

    by  • April 14, 2012 • 0 Comments

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    It’s the weekend again, so I wandered to town and had a walk around and by chance ended up at a craft fair. While I was walking around, something took my fancy out of the corner of my eye… After having a quick chat, finding out more about Bry’s Cupcakes and being won over...

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    Easter in cakes

    by  • April 7, 2012 • 0 Comments

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    It’s been quite a while since I last blogged about my adventures in cakes so I thought I would give a bit of an update, and include the huge amount of cake’age that I had over my birthday. As people know my like for cake, my brothers girlfriend Gemmy made me an incredibly tasty...

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    The Hunger Games

    by  • March 29, 2012 • 0 Comments

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    After watching the trailer I had the strangest sense of déjà vu, it seemed as though the writer and director had gone and watched a bunch of thrillers and decided to mash them together. Finally when I went to see the film, I was taken back even further. To begin with, I have not...

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    Man in the middle C# Attacks

    by  • March 23, 2012 • 0 Comments

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    Previously I discussed the idea of creating a Man-in-the-middle style tools for analysing or compromising C# assemblies. In this blog post I go one step further and create a rough proof of concept demonstrating the possibility. It should be noted that there are ways of easily preventing this sort of attack which I have...

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    Asynchronous Programming in C# 5

    by  • March 21, 2012 • 0 Comments

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    With each new version of C# we see some great new additions. In version 2 we saw the introduction of generics, and in 3 we saw LINQ. In version 5 we are seeing some new features to handle the rise of SaaS (Software as a service), the forefront of this is asynchronous programming. An...

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    Coffee and Cake …Living the dream

    by  • March 11, 2012 • 0 Comments

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    Slowly but surely my blog is becoming a collection of very nice pictures of cake. (Not that I am complaining) At the weekend I met up with a few of the chaps at work and tried out Krispy Kreme for the first time ever, which looking back, I can’t believe I haven’t yet seeing...

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