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...
It has been a bit of a mad week this week. I joined a new team so lots of time learning what’s what and also being pulled in two directions as usual demands come through on top of that. My blog runs on Blazor and I have been making use of JavaScript interop to update the html headers and update the page title to match...
I use sp_send_dbmail to send results of sql queries by email to business users. Recently an issue was raised that data was being cut off after 255 characters. To fix this I added @query_no_truncate = 1, however this stopped the column headings from being included. No idea why you can’t have all the data and column...
Been a quiet week, so wasn’t expecting to have much to write on here, however a few things happened worth talking about. My First PR A comment was made to me to do something with the postcodes that are in the system I am developing. Find out what projects have postcodes near each other, and that way work can be grouped...
I know Active Directory is fussy about clocks being in sync however not sure how todays issue happened. I run my docker compose file from Visual Studio and I get a weird error. SecurityTokenNotYetValidException: IDX10222: Lifetime validation failed. The token is not yet valid. ValidFrom: 'System.DateTime', Current...