For a while now I have been sharing some of my blog posts on the Dzone website. The Dzone website allows users to submit links to content and I have been submitting the content I have created on this website. This is how Dzone describes themselves: With over 1 Million members, DZone.com is one of the web’s largest...
Last time I started looking at Amazon Web Services and how it differed from Azure. I am going to continue looking at what it can do. Virtual Machines Lets look at what you can do with Virtual Machines. I selected to create a new Virtual Machine (or as AWS calls them an EC2 Instance) First you choose a name for your VM...
I am a big fan of Azure but I know zero about its biggest rival – Amazon Web Services or AWS. So lets sign up for a free trial and see what it can do. The AWS free trial is available from https://aws.amazon.com/free/ and lasts for 12 months. From memory I think the Azure free trial lasted only one month. To start you...
I hate MS Access and especially developing with it as you can’t do any thing clever with it. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong! There are a few clever things I have been able to script to make developing with it passable. I still would rather use Visual Studio but this improves the experience a fair bit. Source Control Access files...
The periodic table lists all the chemical elements and groups them together based on some key properties. Today I found an article about the periodic table of DevOps . I am not going to discuss every element but I thought I might go through some that I have heard of or used. Github – The repository of lots of open...
One of the features of git is the ability to tag a point in my change history with a tag. For a while now I have been manually tagging my code whenever I do a release, so I can easily work out what has changed by doing a diff between two tags. Now that I am automating my release process with TeamCity I am thinking...
That’s right this is the one hundredth post that I have written on this blog. So what have I learned in the past 100 posts? It is easier to write a blog before you become a parent. More recently I am increasingly finding it difficult to find the time to blog. It used to be that I could write on an evening, but now...
My latest podcast can be found http://www.trekmate.org.uk/brothers-tng-s4-e3-review-the-battle-bridge/ and feedback can be left on the trekmate forums http://forum.trekmatefamily.com/2016/05/brothers-tng-s4-e3-review-the-battle-bridge/ Data jeopardizes an emergency mission to save an ill child when he gets a signal...
Last year you may remember me talking about playing with a Raspberry Pi. Well since then my Raspberry Pi has been sat on a desk collecting dust. This week I attended Leeds Sharp and the topic was Running Windows on Raspberry Pi and this has inspired me again to do something with a Pi. But first what did I learn. Here...
Where I work we use a really old fashioned way of recording where in the country employees are: Excel! For years I have been trying to persuade staff to use calendars in Exchange. Outlook is great for looking at one or two people’s calendars at once but quickly gets unmanageable for looking at ten or more peoples...