Guido Tapia
September 22, 2016
How to build XGBoost on Windows - Now with GPU support
This is how I managed to build XGBoost on my environment: Install CMake CMake can be downloaded from here: https://cmake.org/download/ I downloaded the 64 bit zip file: https://cmake.org/files/v3.6/cmake-3.6.2-win64-x64.zip and unzipped it to c:\dev\ ...
September 22, 2016
Download XGBoost Windows x64 Binaries and Executables
[Edit]: It appears the XGBoost team has fixed pip builds on Windows. There are also nightly artifacts generated. As such, I hereby turn off my nightly builds. [Edit]: These builds (since 19th of Dec 2016) now have GPU support. If this causes any issu ...
September 20, 2016
Angular2 (NG2) Focus Directive
Requesting focus on an input field is surprisingly hard in angular2. Especially when the input field is inside a dialog or an *ngIf that is not initially visible. After much trial and error this is the solution I came up with. It works on my machine ...
July 3, 2016
Angular 2 and Internet Explorer 9 (IE9)
Getting Angular2 and IE9 working together is not very straight forward, since the move to release candidates some of the Shim libraries have been changed and others removed from the NG2 packages making things confusing. After some research this is wh ...
June 30, 2016
Upgrading to Angular 2 - Reactive Forms (RC3 New Forms)
Upgrading to new the new form engine in Angular 2 (RC3) is fairly straight forward and not nearly as dawnting as some of the router changes in the past. So here is my quick and dirty how to which worked on my projects (no other guarantee). Firstly - ...
June 1, 2016
VANguard and Federated Authentication Service
We recently completed an integration project, where we connected a complex QlikView visualisation and analytics application to VANguard federated authentication service. VANguard is a service provided by the Federal government that allows government ...