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It’s been a while

August 6, 2023August 6, 2023 by Frank DeCaire

It’s been more than a year since I checked in, so I thought I’d post something to let anyone following this blog know that I’m still alive and kicking. I’m still working full-time in the industry. My company uses Kanban, Azure services as well as our own servers. We’re on .Net 6 for most of … Read moreIt’s been a while

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Checking in…

June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 by Frank DeCaire

I’ve done some blog clean-up and removed obsolete articles, including ones with meager traffic (like next to none). The good news is that you won’t have to rummage through articles that don’t apply anymore and I don’t have to maintain any code repos for them. The bad news is that you may have arrived here … Read moreChecking in…

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I’m Still Here

April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 by Frank DeCaire

I wanted to drop a post and tell everyone that I’m still around and this blog is still active. After I moved to Utah hiking consumed my summer months. My wife and I are filling our bucket list! We also bought a new house, so it’s been time consuming to repurchase everything that we needed … Read moreI’m Still Here

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IOC Container Memory Profiles

February 23, 2020February 23, 2020 by Frank DeCaire

Introduction I’ve been working with the IOC container pattern since 2013 and it is now baked into .Net Core. Obviously, the IOC container is the standard going forward (assuming something more fantastic doesn’t supersede it). I have a selfish reason for liking the IOC container pattern: I am a proponent of unit tests. Though I … Read moreIOC Container Memory Profiles

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End of a Decade… and more

December 31, 2019December 31, 2019 by Frank DeCaire

I never do end of the year things. For me the end of the year is just another day. As I read stories about the end of a decade and what has changed over the past 10 years, I began to think about the profound changes that have occurred in my own lifetime. I’ve witnessed … Read moreEnd of a Decade… and more

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Job Search Websites

December 14, 2019December 14, 2019 by Frank DeCaire

This is more of a rant than a software design blog post. Over the past two or three years I’ve done quite a bit of job hunting. It’s still a painful process to look for a new job. Fortunately, my job search is over and I think I’ve finally found the job I can retire … Read moreJob Search Websites

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NLP and The White Whale

April 5, 2019April 4, 2019 by Frank DeCaire

In this blog post I’m going to talk about Natural Language Processing. For my example, I’m going to use a list of books, including books about whales with white fins, blue whales, white whales and Moby Dick the white whale. I’m going to use NLP to enhance the search results of these book titles from … Read moreNLP and The White Whale

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Ransomware

February 13, 2019August 17, 2017 by Frank DeCaire

My wife and I recently took a vacation in Nevada so we could hike trails in parks surrounding Las Vegas.  To get a sense of what we did on vacation you can check out the pictures on my hiking blog by clicking here (I lined up the post dates to be the date when we … Read moreRansomware

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Documentation

February 13, 2019July 3, 2017 by Frank DeCaire

Why is there No Documentation? I’m surprised at the number of developers who don’t create any documentation.  There are ways to self-document code and there are packages to add automatic help to an API to document the services.  Unfortunately, that’s not enough.  I’ve heard all the arguments: It chews up programming time. It rapidly becomes … Read moreDocumentation

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Computing PI

February 13, 2019March 14, 2017 by Frank DeCaire

Today is March 14th, which means that it’s PI day!  So I’m going to talk about computing the number PI. Years ago I wanted to use my computer to calculate the number PI and I assumed that it was just a matter of getting a formula for PI and just running through a loop that … Read moreComputing PI

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