I really enjoy the work of Jorge Luis Borges. If you have not heard of him, check out In Our Time - Borges. I found some audio of some wonderful lectures on poetry he gave at Harvard in the late 60s. The interesting thing about them is that he composes »
I am reading through SICP with some of the guys in work and got to a bit that fascinated me and reminded me of my previous life as a mathematician. The basic data structure in Scheme is the cons cell, essentially representing an ordered pair. So > (cons »
A few weeks ago I went to see Krapp’s Last Tape at the Duchess Theatre in London with some friends. I use “with” in a weak sense as as ever I was running late and had to get a jog on to arrive something like on time, just arriving as it started and pleading »
I was looking at this article (The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes / PDF) about a common functional prime number generator that is mistakenly called the Sieve of Eratosthenes. It is quite complicated, section 2 deals with the performance of the naive algorithm »
I have been meaning to learn ruby for a while and the place I am working now uses a lot so I had another look at it. I read Learn To Program, a simple but good book and found the bit on blocks and procs etc pretty good and wanted to see if I could do »
Here is a little trick I keep re-using to output csv files of data from vCenter. [powershell]$reportArray = @() foreach($cluster in get-cluster){ foreach($vm in get-vm -Location $cluster){ foreach($ds in get-DataStore -VM $vm.name){ »