Recent Posts

Writing Spark Native Functions

Recently Matthew Powers released a short blog post on creating Spark native functions that I found interesting. Previously I had read a post by Simeon Simeonov about the same topic but had not internalised the concepts presented.

Contine reading...

My Criticisms of Macs

Since starting my current job I have been using a Macbook (15 inch 2018 model) as my daily work machine. Previously I made use of an Ubuntu Dell XPS in my last job and before that a Windows 7 Dell Latitude (I think) which I also often used a Linux VM on.

Contine reading...

Advent of Code 2019 Day 4

This year I have decided to try and do the code challenges on the Advent of Code website in Scala and possibly Spark if needed (or an interesting solution arises).
These are simple little coding challenges given once per day like an Advent Calendar before Christmas.

Contine reading...

Advent of Code 2019 Day 3

This year I have decided to try and do the code challenges on the Advent of Code website in Scala and possibly Spark if needed (or an interesting solution arises).
These are simple little coding challenges given once per day like an Advent Calendar before Christmas.

Contine reading...

Advent of Code 2019 Day 2

This year I have decided to try and do the code challenges on the Advent of Code website in Scala and possibly Spark if needed (or an interesting solution arises).
These are simple little coding challenges given once per day like an Advent Calendar before Christmas.

Contine reading...