As today is New Years eve I thought it would be a good chance to look back over the last year. At the start of the year I finally got agreement for the installation of a 30MB leased line. This was an amazing achievement as I had been really struggling to keep everything working on our ADSL connections and the...

I saw this tweet on twitter. He’s making a database, He’s filtering twice SELECT * FROM customers WHERE behaviour = Nice Santa Clause is Coming to town. This started me thinking surely in a normalized database structure behaviour wouldn’t be stored in the customer table, so I propose the following change. He’s making a...

Moving house, lack of internet and lack of inspiration has caused a lack of posts recently but hopefully more to come. Been doing some filing and found an old software developer quiz. Thought I would have a go. Many thanks to Keith for originally writing the quiz. Questions: Write a function that determines if a...