https://martinand.net/ Recent content on martinand.net Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Martin Andersen Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0100 https://martinand.net/2019/12/10/finding-bacon-numbers-with-azure-cosmos-db-and-fsharp/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0100 https://martinand.net/2019/12/10/finding-bacon-numbers-with-azure-cosmos-db-and-fsharp/ Kevin Bacon is an American actor and subject of the trivia game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which you try to connect any actor or actress in any film with Kevin Bacon via co-stars in other films. The number of connections is also known as the Bacon Number. I first stumpled upon this game many years ago, before learning about graph theory at school. Besides playing it a lot with friends, I was fascinated about how it worked and wanted to build something similar. https://martinand.net/2017/12/11/the-soccer-player-best-suited-to-be-santa-claus/ Mon, 11 Dec 2017 08:30:00 +0100 https://martinand.net/2017/12/11/the-soccer-player-best-suited-to-be-santa-claus/ This blog post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2017 and, as such, I thought it would be fitting with a Christmas theme. We’ll use EA SPORTS FUT Database, Microsoft Cognitive Services and F# to find the soccer player best suited to be Santa Claus 🎅 Santa Claus Santa Claus is generally depicted as a portly, joyous, white-bearded man—sometimes with spectacles—wearing a red coat with white fur collar and cuffs, white-fur-cuffed red trousers, and black leather belt and boots and who carries a bag full of gifts for children. https://martinand.net/2017/05/10/fablelous-enterprise-tic-tac-toe/ Wed, 10 May 2017 01:02:03 +0100 https://martinand.net/2017/05/10/fablelous-enterprise-tic-tac-toe/ This post is a follow-up to the excellent Enterprise Tic-Tac-Toe by Scott Wlaschin. We’ll continue where Scott left off, transpile his F# to JavaScript using Fable and replace the console interface with a web interface to make it even more enterprisey. JavaScript is Assembly for the Web Back in 2011, Scott Hanselman made the analogy that JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web. The analogy caused a lot of debate, but we’ve since seen the emergence of many transpilers to JavaScript, so with regards to JavaScript is as low-level as a web programming language goes, it appears that Scott was on to something. https://martinand.net/2017/03/20/what-is-for-lunch/ Mon, 20 Mar 2017 08:30:34 +0100 https://martinand.net/2017/03/20/what-is-for-lunch/ We use Slack at work and for a while I’d been tinkering with the idea of creating a Slack Slash Command to display what’s for lunch, e.g. /lunch. The one thing stopping me was the canteen menu only being available on a printed paper posted every Monday and as a lazy developer, I couldn’t be bothered with having to input it manually every week. However, this all changed when a co-worker informed me about the canteen having an app. https://martinand.net/2017/02/19/solving-5th-grade-math-with-fsharp-and-ocr/ Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:30:00 +0100 https://martinand.net/2017/02/19/solving-5th-grade-math-with-fsharp-and-ocr/ When reviewing my 10 year-old son’s homework, I like to show him how to do it programmatically and automating tedious math assignments gets his attention. The assignment is in Norwegian, but basically the task at hand is to find the largest number in each cell. The most upper left cell contains the values 1,5 , 1,0555 and 1,55 (the decimal separator in Norway is comma), so the correct answer for this cell is 1,55.