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19th February 2020

Changing the data type and length of columns in existing SQL Server tables

Faced with the task of modifying every varchar(n) column of every table in a database to be varchar(max), whilst avoiding default constraint errors, I came up with a script to generate the SQL for me.

18th February 2020

Discriminated unions in C#

How to generate classes to represent discriminated unions in C#

9th February 2020

Mazes For Programmers part 11, Ruby vs C# speed tests

6th February 2020

Mazes For Programmers part 10, improving the Aldous-Broder algorithm to remove short dead-ends

3rd February 2020

Mazes For Programmers part 9, some statistics, and combining the Aldous-Broder and Wilson's algorithms

Having coded up two more complex algorithms, I analysed them to see how they compared, and then combined the two in an attempt (failed) to produce a hybrid algorithm that was faster than either of its parents.