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About Carl Nolan

I work for Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK. My primary focus is enterprise applications using C# and SQL Server.
However I also have an interest in other programming paradigms, hence the interest in F#.
A summary of my previous publications can be found here.
A list of posted code can be found here.

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Hadoop XML Streaming and F# MapReduce

Posted over 1 year ago

by Carl Nolan
Hadoop Streaming and Windows Azure Blob Storage

Posted over 1 year ago

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Hadoop Streaming and Reporting

Posted over 1 year ago

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A lazy evaluation of F# Seq.groupBy for sorted sequences

Posted over 1 year ago

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Hadoop Streaming and Windows Azure Blob Storage

Posted over 1 year ago

by Carl Nolan
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One of the cool features of the Microsoft Distribution of Hadoop (MDH) is the native support for Windows Azure Blob Storage. When performing HDFS operations by default one can omit the scheme such that: hadoop fs -lsr /mobile Is equivalent to: hadoop...
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Hadoop XML Streaming and F# MapReduce

Posted over 1 year ago

by Carl Nolan
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So, to round out the Hadoop Streaming samples I thought I would put together an XML Streaming sample. As always the code can be found here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Hadoop-Streaming-and-F-f2e76850 XML Streaming Reader So how does one stream in XML...
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Hadoop Binary Streaming and PDF File Inclusion

Posted over 1 year ago

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In a previous post I talked about Hadoop Binary Streaming for the processing of Microsoft Office Word documents. However, due to there popularity, I thought inclusion for support of Adobe PDF documents would be beneficial. To this end I have updated...
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Hadoop Streaming and Reporting

Posted over 1 year ago

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If like me you are a .Net developer and have written some Streaming jobs it is not immediately obvious how one can do any reporting. However if you dig through the Streaming Documentation you will come across this in the FAQs: How do I update counters...
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A lazy evaluation of F# Seq.groupBy for sorted sequences

Posted over 1 year ago

by Carl Nolan
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In doing some recent work with Hadoop I needed to process a sequence which was grouped by a projected key. Whereas the Seq.groupBy can perform this operation, the Seq.groupBy function makes no assumption on the ordering of the original sequence. As a...