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...
Last year I blogged about Team City , well I have been looking at it again recently. In that time they have even changed their logo! Lets start with thinking about what I want my Continuous Integration server to do. Check out my code from source control (usually master but all feature branches would be even better)...
Model View Controller or MVC is a software architectural pattern for implementing user interfaces on computers. It divides a given software application into three interconnected parts, so as to separate internal representations of information from the ways that information is presented to or accepted from the user. I...
I have just bought myself a new laptop, but it is not just any laptop it is a Microsoft Surface Book . I think this is probably the first time I have bought myself a top of the range laptop and after a few days of use I am loving it. The Surface Book is the latest in Microsoft’s Surface line of tablets but the first to...
One of my plans is to create new MVC Webapps for my companies databases. Once I publish these I will need to secure them so only staff have access. The traditional way to do this would be insert membership tables into my database. The user then has to remember another username and password and I have to secure the...
I spend an awful lot of my working life adding new features and improvements to a legacy database system. A legacy system is an old method, technology, computer system, or application program, “of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated computer system.” Often a pejorative term, referencing a system as “legacy”...
Episode Title: The Best of Both Worlds Star Trek Type: TNG Original Air Date: 18 June 1990 & 24 September 1990 Written By: Michael Piller Directed By: Cliff Bole The Borg threaten the Federation, when they kidnap Captain Picard and destroy a fleet of 39 Starships. Luckily some original thinking from Commander Riker...