Next month I will celebrate ten years working at my current job, two weeks after that I will start a new chapter of my life at a new company. Lets take this opportunity to look back ten years at some of the great stuff I have achieved. 2006 In 2006 I had no IT experience. If you were to ask me where Event Logs could be...
So after five and a bit years of being an IT Manager here is some advice I have learned along the way in no particular order. On the whole I have enjoyed myself but it has been a real challenge at times. 1. Figure out what plates are still spinning Being an IT Manager is all about keeping everything running all of the...
This week I handed in my notice at a job I have had for almost ten years. In a few weeks time I will start a brand new job as a web applications developer. This is a great achievement for me and a great chance to learn and expand my development skills. However moments after I handed my notice in, a huge wave of...
On September 8th 1966 a TV show called Star Trek first aired. Today 50 years later people around the world are still watching Star Trek. I was going to blog about the Star Trek story, but instead why not watch this video.
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...