DDD East Midlands

On Saturday 7th October I attended DDD East Midlands . It is a community run conference for Developers (the D’s stand for Developer) and I had a great time, I have been to DDD North before but this was the first time going to Nottingham for a conference (I grew up in Nottingham, or a town not far from). As I have said...

Picard Season 3

Last night I had a bit of a chat about season 3 of Star Trek Picard. Before #startrek #Picard S3ep2 airs this week; @danielhuckfield Special Guest @funkysi1701 and @hitch_daniel chat about the first episode on the Nexus Nights spin-off show.https://t.co/Jyov53z7hC — The Temporal Trek Podcast(s) (@rider_coattail)...

How much does it cost?

How much does it Cost to run my side projects? This is going to be an interesting look at my spending, hopefully it can show you can do a lot without breaking the bank! I have a personal Azure subscription that I pay for myself. I don’t use anything connected to my work, as jobs change and I don’t want to have to shift...

2022 What Happened?

As 2022 draws to a close its time to do my annual look back at what happened. I am going to talk a bit about my personal life as well as tech things, so if that is not your bag feel free to skip this post and read my more technical articles. January - I started the year teaching my son to code . February - I did some...

DDD North

On Saturday 3rd December I attended DDD North . It is a community run conference for Developers (the D’s stand for Developer) and I had a fab time there. Many conferences are going online which is great, however there is nothing quite like chatting over coffee or lunch with fellow Developers about the tech you are...

Upgrading to .Net 7

I have a Blazor application that was built with .Net Core 3, and I have updated it to .Net 5 and later .Net 6 when those versions of were released. In November .Net 7 is released so I have been testing it with the .Net 7 previews. However for this update I encountered a few more issues than I remember from the other...

MakeCode and the BBC micro:bit

Programming is in my DNA, so when I had children it was obvious that I would attempt to share my passion. It has taken a while, for some reason for loops don’t interest toddlers! However my 7 year old son has got a taste for it now. It was his birthday the other day and he got quite a few tech related things. First off...