Wow! What an amazing year 2015 has been and with 2015 about to end I thought it would be good to look back at what happened in this amazing year. January I started the year with a declaration that 2015 would be my year of code. Well I have had a few breaks from programming but I have learnt loads this year. I have...
Four months ago James David Martin Foster was born. And he is even more awesome now than when he was born. As I write this James only has a few sleeps (as James sleeps multiple times in a day I can’t put an exact number) until his first Christmas. James is pretty much unaware of what is going on as he is still too...
In December we count down the days to Christmas. People often have advent calendars filled with chocolates or even Lego. But what about if you are a programmer, how can you count down the days till Christmas? What about if you had a daily Christmas themed coding challenge? Well www.adventofcode.com is the answer. Each...
The Oatmeal created a comic which you really should check out. It can be found here . The comic tells the story of a plane crash, in which the 25 year old co-pilot goes back into the burning plane to rescue passengers and lead a group of survivors through the desert to find help. The co-pilot was named Gene...
I use SQL Server Management Studio all the time for writing queries, getting data and general SQL development. I have enjoyed seeing the improvements that each new version of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) introduced. One great improvement was intellisense. This feature saves typing and reduces errors by...
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As you have probably heard Star Trek is coming back to TV. I recently joined with the Sci Fi Waffle podcast to discuss. Sci Fi Waffle: Episode 12 – STAR TREK IS BACK!! In this episode we discuss the great news that Star Trek IS BACK!!. Shawn and I are joined again by James Roberts and TrekMates News feed Editor Simon...
Having a website is an easy way to reach people across the globe. This website has reached people in almost every continent. I have had visitors in each of the following countries. United States United Kingdom Canada Germany Australia India France Vietnam Netherlands Poland China Russia Sweden European Union New...
I don’t want to go to work Just want to hang with Captain Kirk I am a big Warp 11 fan. Warp 11 are a Star Trek rock band from Sacramento, California. Their songs often feature bad language, sex and drinking but always feature references to Star Trek characters and episodes and a good dose of humour. I first listened to...
This weekend I took James on an adventure. As he is only 8 weeks old it was a fairly low key adventure but hopefully he enjoyed himself. St Michael le Belfrey have been organizing an event for Dads once a month and this month I wanted to give it a go. I have been looking forward to going for a while. Looking after a...