Month: March 2018

• A functional solution to interfacitis?

  /ˈɪntəfeɪsʌɪtəs/ noun noun: interfacitis inflammation of a software, most commonly from overuse of interfaces and other abstractions but also from… well… actually it’s mostly just interfaces. An illness of tedium Over the years my experience has come to show me that unnecessary abstractions cause some of the most significant overheads and inertia in software projects.…

  Stephen Roughley

  March 12, 2018

  Patterns and Practices

  .NET, C#, Dependency Injection, Dependency Inversion, Design, IoC, MVC, Patterns and Practices

• Demystifying AI – The AI explosion

  This is an article I had originally written as part of a stream of work that has now been put on hold indefinitely. I thought it a shame for it to languish in OneNote. What’s with all this attention to Artificial Intelligence then? Well that is a very good question. To be perfectly frank, not…

  Stephen Roughley

  March 9, 2018

  Machine Learning, Patterns and Practices

  AI, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, ML

• FileFormatException: Format error in package

  OK so we’re all completely clear on what this error means and what must be done to resolve it right? I mean with a meaningful error like that how can anyone be mistaken? Oh? What’s that? You still don’t know? Let’s be a bit more specific: System.IO.FileFormatException: Format error in package Better? Didn’t think so.…

  Stephen Roughley

  March 9, 2018

  Patterns and Practices

  .NET, Debugging, NuGet, Octopus Deploy, Patterns and Practices, TeamCity