Funky Si's Blog

For the past few weeks my software developing has been taking a back seat as I planned and coordinated the IT requirements of an office move.

I created my GitHub account in August 2010, lets look at what I have done with it.

I would like to automate the promotion of this blog.

I recently came home from a busy day of work to my wife blaming me for allowing our 18 month old son to reach some paint and get it all over the carpet.

I am trying to understand interfaces and when to use them in my code.

This week I have been looking at improving my understanding of a few programming terms, like SOLID and I will try and define them so I can look back here when I get confused.

A few weeks back I attended a talk at Agile Yorkshire about Test Driven Development or TDD by Dr Oliver Shaw.

As a developer using source control and git is bread and butter of what we do.

Today I spent some time learning the R language.

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I am currently working on source code that is over 5Gb in size.

So recently I started working on a new codebase.

What is LINQ?

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.

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.

This week I handed in my notice at a job I have had for almost ten years.

For a while now I have been sharing some of my blog posts on the Dzone website.

Last time I started looking at Amazon Web Services and how it differed from Azure.

I am a big fan of Azure but I know zero about its biggest rival – Amazon Web Services or AWS.

I hate MS Access and especially developing with it as you can’t do any thing clever with it.

The periodic table lists all the chemical elements and groups them together based on some key properties.

One of the features of git is the ability to tag a point in my change history with a tag.

That’s right this is the one hundredth post that I have written on this blog.

My latest podcast can be found at https://www.trekmate.org.uk/brothers-tng-s4-e3-review-the-battle-bridge/ .

Last year you may remember me talking about playing with a Raspberry Pi.

Where I work we use a really old fashioned way of recording where in the country employees are: Excel!

Last year I blogged about Team City , well I have been looking at it again recently.

Model View Controller or MVC is a software architectural pattern for implementing user interfaces on computers.

I have just bought myself a new laptop, but it is not just any laptop it is a Microsoft Surface Book .

One of my plans is to create new MVC Webapps for my companies databases.

I spend an awful lot of my working life adding new features and improvements to a legacy database system.

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 S…

Today I did a clone of one of my git repositories and it took ages to download.

Like many DBAs I spend a lot of time maintaining my SQL Server backups.

I spend a lot of my time creating new features that simplify my companies business processes.

Episode Title: Arena Star Trek Type: TOS Original Air Date: 19 January 1967 Teleplay: Gene L Coon Story By: Frederic Brown Directed By: Joseph Pevney The episode begins with the Enterprise in orbit of Cestus III.

Over the Christmas break the city of York experienced the worst flooding disaster it has seen in recent years.

In 1966 a TV show called Star Trek first aired in the USA.

Wow!

Four months ago James David Martin Foster was born.

In December we count down the days to Christmas.

The Oatmeal created a comic which you really should check out.

I use SQL Server Management Studio all the time for writing queries, getting data and general SQL development.

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As you have probably heard Star Trek is coming back to TV.

Having a website is an easy way to reach people across the globe.

I don’t want to go to work Just want to hang with Captain Kirk I am a big Warp 11 fan.

This weekend I took James on an adventure.

I recently read a blog post by Pinal Dave about how you can backup straight to Azure Storage.

My latest podcast can be found at https://www.trekmate.org.uk/the-hunted-tng-s3-e11-the-battle-bridge/ .