I got excited earlier this week as I started playing around with the javascript I have been learning. I thought I would try and create useful javascript that could be applied to an online filestore. Somewhere that you could upload, delete, edit files and folders and various options to do with your files would popup via...
The first program anyone writes in a new language is often really simple and just displays the text “Hello World!”, below are a few examples from languages I have knowledge of. Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!"); <html> <head></head> <body> <p>Hello, world!</p> </body> </html> php echo 'Hello, world!'; ?>MsgBox("Hello,...
There is no escaping the fact that we are in 2015 now. My new years resolution is to do more coding. Over Christmas I thought I would have a go at http://www.codecademy.com I completed the javascript course and I was just wondering what I should try next when I saw a tweet about http://www.freecodecamp.com Since then I...
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...
On Friday night I had the urge to fire up Visual Studio and tomorrow (Monday) I move house. What’s with that? Why am I in a programming mood when I have boxes to pack and shelves to take apart? For the last few weeks I have been too busy with other things to do much programming or when I had the time I felt more like...
I listen to the dot net rocks podcast and they ask this question every show. (If you don’t listen then you should!) I don’t know what my answer would be as there are so many gadgets and cool things that I like the sound of. I might get a surface pro 3, it’s a tablet with attachable keyboard that’s more powerful than my...
I have done a few interviews from both sides of the table, I’m not very good at either but thought I would have a go at answering my favourite questions. Describe an IT disaster and what you did to turn it around? The question is all about the turn it around bit. I’ve had lots of answers that emphasise the problem...
Let’s continue looking at a database schema for storing details of every Star Trek Episode. If you are new to databases, a schema is just the design of the structure of the database. We have three tables, Episode, EpisodeWriter and Writer. See my last post for more details of these. It has been suggested that a slight...