| 26/09/2020 |
Security Headers |
Check the security headers of your site |
| 25/09/2020 |
Back to Blogging |
Back to Blogging |
| 03/03/2020 |
Testing for expiring SSL Certificates |
Testing for expiring SSL Certificates |
| 25/01/2020 |
A Comparison of All Good Things... and Star Trek Picard |
A Comparison of All Good Things... and Star Trek Picard |
| 04/01/2020 |
How do you keep track of your passwords? |
My top ways to keep your login details secure |
| 29/12/2019 |
A look back at the 2010s |
What I did in the 2010s |
| 02/12/2019 |
Azure Advent Calendar: Azure Devops Pipelines |
This blog post is part of Azure Advent Calendar do check out some of the other videos and blog posts.... |
| 11/05/2019 |
Infrastructure as Code – Creating Azure Resources with Terraform |
Terraform is a way to script the creation of Azure Resources. By scripting the creation of your resou... |
| 05/04/2019 |
Gated Release |
Automated releases of software are great but how can we add an element of feedback so only good relea... |
| 27/03/2019 |
Documenting your API |
So you have created a super API that does something amazing. How do you document it so people will us... |
| 19/03/2019 |
Azure Key Vault |
Azure Key Vault is a secure way of storing your keys, certificates and secrets so your application ca... |
| 05/03/2019 |
Technology I want to learn more about |
While at Microsoft Ignite I heard about a lot of cool tech that I want to know more about. The best w... |
| 26/02/2019 |
Microsoft Ignite | The Tour – London |
I have just spent the first day at the conference Microsoft Ignite | The Tour. The conference was fre... |
| 31/01/2019 |
Yaml Builds on Azure DevOps |
I have been using Azure DevOps (Or VSTS or VSO etc) for a while now and one of the great features is... |
| 01/01/2019 |
Lets see what 2019 can do! |
This is my annual lets make some goals for the new year blog post. So in no particular order. Improve... |
| 27/12/2018 |
Looking back at 2018 |
As 2018 starts to draw to a close let’s look at some of the highlights from the past year. New Home –... |
| 05/11/2018 |
Running SQL Server on a Linux Container using Docker for Windows |
Recently I have been investigating what all the fuss is about Docker and it has been well worth my ti... |
| 08/08/2018 |
Picard is back! |
It has just been announced at the annual Star Trek Las Vegas (#STLV) convention that Patrick Stewart... |
| 28/07/2018 |
2018 The Story So far |
Remember me? I used to write blog posts but somehow life got in the way. So much has happened this ye... |
| 07/05/2018 |
Casting and Converting between types |
Recently I was asked how to convert a number to a string. Let’s look at a few ways of approaching thi... |
| 30/04/2018 |
Let’s Encrypt is awesome |
Let’s Encrypt is a free way to get a SSL certificate onto your website and until recently I had never... |
| 09/04/2018 |
DNS for Developers |
DNS is the backbone of the internet and as such I believe every developer should know something about... |
| 02/04/2018 |
Code Reviews |
Reviewing code is a great habit to get into. Code reviews help share knowledge between your team memb... |
| 26/03/2018 |
Android Development Options |
A friend asked me how to get started in Android Development and I thought I might have a go at answer... |
| 19/03/2018 |
Tips for Developing Yourself |
For a while I have been mentoring a friend and I thought I might share some top tips I have implement... |
| 16/03/2018 |
Heroes |
Who was your hero growing up? Mine was Stephen Hawking. What is a hero? A lot is said in the media... |
| 05/03/2018 |
New version of Pwned Pass |
A new version of Pwned Pass is available from Google Play. A couple of weeks ago Troy Hunt released... |
| 26/02/2018 |
Refactoring if statements |
The code base I am working on contains a huge if block. By huge I mean 77 if statements one after the... |
| 19/02/2018 |
Chrome distrusts SSL Certificates |
One of the websites I have been working on has been displaying an error in the console. The error rea... |
| 12/02/2018 |
Content Security Policies |
A content Security Policy or CSP is a HTTP response header that defines what sources of content can b... |
| 05/02/2018 |
Pluralsight |
Earlier this year I signed up for pluralsight. If you want to sign up to pluralsight as well use this... |
| 29/01/2018 |
Flexible Architecture with Interfaces |
I have blogged a few times about interfaces, and how useful they are for producing good quality maint... |
| 22/01/2018 |
Moving files into blob storage |
We are in the process of moving our companies websites onto the Azure platform. One of the challenges... |
| 15/01/2018 |
Website UI Testing |
Last week I looked at testing the UI of mobile apps, this week lets look at how we could do a similar... |
| 08/01/2018 |
Mobile App UI Testing |
Since I started creating an android app I have been writing simple UI tests. I have been taking adva... |
| 01/01/2018 |
Lets see what 2018 can do! |
It is 2018 so it must be time to think about what my plans and goals are for the new year.... |
| 28/12/2017 |
Looking back at 2017 |
As 2017 starts to draw to a close let’s look at some of the highlights from the past year. 1) Edwa... |
| 17/12/2017 |
Getting started with Azure Table Storage |
Azure Table storage is cheap way to store data, however it has some drawbacks that you should be awar... |
| 13/11/2017 |
How to get Zero Code Changes outside of Source Control |
Source control is bread and butter for web developers, however not so much for SQL developers and oth... |
| 06/11/2017 |
SQL with Visual Studio Code |
Writing SQL queries is typically done with SQL Management Studio (SSMS). However this tool is a bit o... |
| 31/10/2017 |
Interfaces are cool! |
A while back I blogged about learning about interfaces as I didn’t really understand the value of the... |
| 16/10/2017 |
Creating DNS records programmatically |
DNS is the backbone of the internet. It converts domain names into IP addresses. But how can we do cl... |
| 10/10/2017 |
Discovery – My thoughts so far |
I tried to resist but I am going to have to write about the new Star Trek series Discovery. Warning t... |
| 22/09/2017 |
Star Trek is back with Discovery |
In November 2015 it was announced that a new Star Trek series was going to be launched. It has been a... |
| 18/09/2017 |
Azure Friday |
I think Azure is great, but there is loads to it so I can never know about all of its features. There... |
| 12/09/2017 |
Azure Functions |
I recently blogged about using Azure Web Jobs, Azure Function is another way of doing the same thing,... |
| 14/08/2017 |
Pwned Pass – Available from the Play Store |
Pwned Pass is now available from the Google Play Store. Pwned Pass is a simple android app that al... |
| 07/08/2017 |
Android App Development and the Visual Studio Mobile Centre |
For the past week or so I have been playing around with Xamarin and creating an android app. Well I... |
| 31/07/2017 |
Creating your own nuget packages with VSTS |
For a while I have found myself writing the same bits of code for different web projects. This annoys... |
| 24/07/2017 |
Async and Await |
For a while the Async and Await commands in c# have confused me. Like most things the best way to le... |
| 17/07/2017 |
How good is your SSL? |
I recently watched Troy Hunt’s What Every Developer Must Know about HTTPS course on Pluralsight. It... |
| 10/07/2017 |
Writing your first test |
Whenever I write a new test I have to think how best to do it. Hopefully I can summarise a few tips h... |
| 03/07/2017 |
Uploading Files to AWS |
I am a fan of Azure but today I have been looking at AWS. Specifically how to upload and download fil... |
| 26/06/2017 |
Using Azure WebJobs to Automate Stuff |
I keep hearing about Azure WebJobs but I have never used them. Time to change this. WebJobs are a fe... |
| 05/06/2017 |
What the heck is Business Intelligence? |
The term Business Intelligence (BI) refers to technologies, applications and practices for the collec... |
| 01/05/2017 |
Office Move |
For the past few weeks my software developing has been taking a back seat as I planned and coordinate... |
| 27/03/2017 |
Interfaces |
I am trying to understand interfaces and when to use them in my code. An interface defines a contrac... |
| 27/02/2017 |
Learning R |
Today I spent some time learning the R language. The problem I was trying to solve was to convert lo... |
| 21/07/2016 |
Amazon Web Services |
I am a big fan of Azure but I know zero about its biggest rival – Amazon Web Services or AWS. So let... |
| 03/12/2015 |
SQL Server Management Studio |
I use SQL Server Management Studio all the time for writing queries, getting data and general SQL dev... |
| 12/06/2015 |
Runaway SQL Log growth |
Today is my day off, but I wake up and have a quick look at nagios to see if there is anything I need... |
| 16/03/2015 |
Source Control Fail |
Every developer uses source control, it is a great tool for keeping track of changes to your code, se... |
| 24/09/2014 |
I love Nagios |
You may not have heard of Nagios but it has saved my bacon quite a few times. Nagios is an open so... |