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For many years I have been active in music as well as in software, playing piano or double bass. For a glimpse of this other side of me, I am going to put up some tracks or videos. I have just put a couple of sound files on SoundCloud - ...

A quick blog post about migrating from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 5.0. I have found this reasonably straightforward in a number of projects, with some exceptions: There is still no .NET 5.0 version of Azure functions so they have to remain .NET Core 3.1 for the time being in ...

I follow various barristers, solicitors and police accounts on Twitter and have been aware for some time that the criminal justice system in the UK has been subjected to underfunding for many years. At times, I'm told that working conditions are unsanitary or even unsafe. I have set up a ...

This shows an embedded slideshow from my Smugmug site of my work on various software projects.

David Wilkie has just published a new version (4.0) of his model for the Covid19 virus, it is available under the 10 April 2020 entry on https://davidwilkieworks.wordpress.com/coronavirus-covid-19/ . This version allows longer delays between infection, symptoms appearing, cases being reporting, and deaths.

On 6 April 2020 Microsoft released new versions of Nuget Packages to enable developers to read and write to Azure Storage accounts. For example, to connect to blobs (binary large objects, typically images or files), use the new Azure.Storage.Blobs Nuget package. (e.g. I have just used version 12.4.1). Example of ...

There is no perfect model, and it seems clear that there is still a lot of uncertainty about how long the Covid-19 virus is infectious for, how long carriers can be both asymptomatic and contagious. The UK government seem to be expecting the current epidemic to peak within a couple ...

For those with a developer/techie interest, I have recently updated this site to use ASP.NET Core 3.1. ButterCMS is used as a headless CMS engine, and I have added Telerik Kendo UI for ASP.NET Core controls which I aim to use for some more data based future posts. An Azure ...

For those unable or unwilling to log in to Linked In, here are recent bulletins published by the group to in our collective battle to make sense of and overcome the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid-19 Actuaries Response Group Bulletin 4: UK is not like China! (30 Mar 2020) Covid-19 Actuaries Response ...

David Wilkie now has his own website, where further updates on his model will be posted, including the latest: a version 3 which tries to allow for the effect of changes in social distancing policy, see here .