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In Part 1 , I wrote: When done accurately and before any clever processing, the number of cashflows produced can easily run into the millions , and for a large pension plan, into the billions . (When I have time, I plan to explain why, and talk about some of ...

Earlier today I submitted my nomination to stand for the Council of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries again. I was on the Council from July 2012 to June 2018, and server on the Management Board from July 2016 to June 2018. The main skill-set I bring to the table ...

Popular self-service blog platforms like WordPress allow to you add Tag Clouds via adding what they call a widget to a sidebar. I wanted to add one to this site (which is a standard ASP.NET Core 2.2 webapp, but modified to use ButterCMS as a blog backend) and after checking ...

It doesn't come up as an option in the current latest release version of Visual Studio 2019 (v 16.0.3), but ,NET 4.8 (as opposed to 4.72) has apparently been available since 18 April 2019. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/whats-new/index#v48 . From that page: NET Framework 4.8 builds on previous versions of the .NET ...

Further to my previous post which used the Preview version of Telerik's UI (user interface components) for Blazor, earlier today they released the first live version of it: see their blog post . I look forward to using this soon.

Further to this post , the exact same behaviour (as for .NET Core 2.2) is observed in .NET Core 3 Preview.

For many years, I and colleagues have been aware that the treatment of maths in .NET (and even before that in C++) can lead to code FAILING SILENTLY. That is: the code stops working normally, but instead of stopping and letting the user know that there is a problem, it ...

One example of how #AI can make it easier for your staff, customers or suppliers to interact with your software tools is to add a combined ”Next Step / Tell me what you want to do” facility. This ...

I wrote this exactly a year ago - since then I have completed the Microsoft Professional Program for Big Data, again working in my spare time. I am delighted to have now completed the Microsoft Professional Program for Data Science. It has been 10 online courses (taking a total of ...

Below is a slideshow of some of my software work. To see each individual picture in more detail, go to https://patrickjlee.smugmug.com/Software-engineering-portfolio/ .