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...
Is it to share my ideas? Is it to learn new technologies and techniques? Is it to create a following? Is it to educate others? Is it to build some kind of service? Is it some combination of all of these. History Back when the web was young and I was first learning HTML. I hand crafted web pages, adding photos I had...
Lets have a look at what my goals were for 2021. I had eight of them, lets look at them one by one. Azure certification. In May of this year I sat and passed the Azure Fundamentals exam. I am calling this goal as achieved. Mentoring. I didn’t do anything about working with others or mentoring, so not sure I achieved...
How exciting my Lynx Computer from my childhood has come home, all 96k of it pic.twitter.com/aeN38KBiS8 — Simon Foster (@funkysi1701) December 26, 2021 I can’t remember the syntax for BASIC, luckily I have been able to find the Manual . All the commands are listed inside so lets see what we can do. The Lynx presents...
The final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation features a few scenes set 25 years into the future. That episode aired May 1994. The newest Star Trek TV show Star Trek Picard has just aired its first episode and this is 25 years and 8 months after that episode. This article may contain minor spoilers for the first...
We are over halfway through 2021, let’s have a quick look at some things I have done this year: Deployed a new version of the Pre Qualification questionnaire website for my employers Passed Azure Fundamentals Exam Mongo DB Atlas - experimented with using it for auditing my application SonarCloud - tried to improve the...
I didn’t make any goals for 2020, or if I did, I didn’t officially announce them. 2020 has been a hard year for all of us, 2021 is going to be better. Here are a few ideas for my goals for the year ahead. Azure certification Mentoring F# Cosmos db/Mongo db Give a talk Mandlebrot Generator Pwned Pass Mobile App More...
I saw a tweet about building a twitter clone being harder than you would think. So this of course started me thinking how I would go about building something like that. Ok so where would I start? First a few assumptions. Development by a lone developer ie me Tech stack will be dotnet and other tech I am familiar with...