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...
I have been thinking back to when I started using source control and some of the different tools I have used over the years. When I was learning to code it was some time after I had learned the basics that I learnt about source control. Back when I started writing webpages I would have a folder containing all my html,...
I use keyboard shortcuts all the time, mostly without thinking, but they can be quite a time saver especially for frequently used tasks. I recently came across this list of Visual Studio ones. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/default-keyboard-shortcuts-in-visual-studio?view=vs-2022 I was going to do a...
I have been wanting to produce a diagram of the architecture of my side project for some time, but I have put it off as never sure what the correct tools is for this job. Mermaid is a tool that lets you create diagrams from code and text. I first came across this tool about a year ago for use in a project. I had...
On the 10th and 11th June 2022 Scottish Summit 2022 happened and I was there. It was an awesome event and I will attempt to summarise what happened. Thursday 9th On Thursday 9th I travelled down on the train full of excitement about the event. Once I got to the hotel, I was immediately greeted by James Cook , I was...
My 6 year old boy has been playing with Scratch, so here is a quick introduction to what we have learnt about it. Scratch is a website that allows you to “code” by combining blocks together. This is how the scratch website describes its self Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding...
Earlier this year I was a guest on the Temporal Trek Podcast. Your Inquiry is recognised. Here is this weeks episode of The Temporal Trek. “Dead Stop” part 2 of the unofficial Battle Damage two parter. Special Guest @funkysi1701 who was paid with three containers of warp plasma. Bargain!https://t.co/up4zAKOpZy...
So today I sat the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification Exam and passed! This is my second certification exam I have sat after the Azure Fundamentals one I sat last year. This time was different than the Azure one. Colleagues at work encouraged me to look into doing this particular exam and my employer is going to...
This morning I was listening to a podcast where the new features coming out for SQL Server 2022 were being discussed. This starting me thinking about what would be involved in upgrading. Upgrading production environments is complex and there are licensing considerations to take into account. However for non production...
Today Microsoft celebrated 20 years since the first version of dotnet was released with a special live stream event. A lot has happened in the 20 years of dotnet (or .Net). It is my understanding that .Net was created to rival Java. When the .Net Framework was first created it was a windows only thing, but today modern...