Funky Si's Blog

2024 Event/Talk Date Location Yorkshire Azure 19 November 2024 York Code Club 16 November 2024 Leeds Library Code Club 2 November 2024 Leeds Library Scottish Summit 17-19 October 2024 Aberdeen DDD North 2 March 2024 Hull

It is that exciting time of year where Microsoft announce a new version of .Net (Version 8 this time) and Visual Studio.

Recently I have been reading the first few chapters of Patrick Stewart’s Memoir, Making It So: A Memoir .

On Saturday 7th October I attended DDD East Midlands .

Last night I had a bit of a chat about season 3 of Star Trek Picard.

How much does it Cost to run my side projects?

Another week has gone by so here is a rundown of my podcasts listenings… Hachyderm’s Kris Nova on running a Mastodon Server Hanselminutes episode 871 A great chat about how Hachderm grew as people moved from Twitter to Mastodon.

I love listening to podcasts so I thought I would share what I have been listening to over the last few days.

2023 Event/Talk Date Location DevBoss 16 November 2023 Leeds DDD East Midlands 7 October 2023 Nottingham SteelCon 8 July 2023 Sheffield Yorkshire Azure 13 June 2023 Leeds DevBoss 20 April 2023 Leeds dotnet York Machine Learning with ML.Net 2 March 2023 Yo…

As 2022 draws to a close its time to do my annual look back at what happened.

On Saturday 3rd December I attended DDD North .

This morning the client complains that the website is not working.

I have a Blazor application that was built with .Net Core 3, and I have updated it to .Net 5 and later .Net 6 when those versions of were released.

Programming is in my DNA, so when I had children it was obvious that I would attempt to share my passion.

I have been thinking back to when I started using source control and some of the different tools I have used over the years.

I use keyboard shortcuts all the time, mostly without thinking, but they can be quite a time saver especially for frequently used tasks.

I have been wanting to produce a diagram of the architecture of my side project for some time, but I have put it off as never sure what the correct tools is for this job.

On the 10th and 11th June 2022 Scottish Summit 2022 happened and I was there.

My 6 year old boy has been playing with Scratch, so here is a quick introduction to what we have learnt about it.

Earlier this year I was a guest on the Temporal Trek Podcast.

So today I sat the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification Exam and passed!

This morning I was listening to a podcast where the new features coming out for SQL Server 2022 were being discussed.

Today Microsoft celebrated 20 years since the first version of dotnet was released with a special live stream event.

Is it to share my ideas?

I’ve been running my website on Azure Static Web Apps for a while and it is pretty cool.

2022 Event/Talk Date Location Microsoft Datacenter Tour: Virtual Experience 6 December 2022 Online DDD North 3 December 2022 Hull LeedsSharp Azure Patterns for Fun and Profit 24 November 2022 Leeds .Net Conf (Keynote only) 8 November 2022 Online Scottish…

Lets have a look at what my goals were for 2021.

How exciting my Lynx Computer from my childhood has come home, all 96k of it pic.twitter.com/aeN38KBiS8 — Simon Foster (@funkysi1701) December 26, 2021 I can’t remember the syntax for BASIC, luckily I have been able to find the Manual .

The final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation features a few scenes set 25 years into the future.

Welcome to Day 5 of the Festive Tech Calendar!

We are over halfway through 2021, let’s have a quick look at some things I have done this year: Deployed a new version of the Pre Qualification questionnaire website for my employers Passed Azure Fundamentals Exam Mongo DB Atlas - experimented with using…

So today I sat the Azure Fundamentals Certification Exam and passed!

I have had a Raspberry Pi for a few years and recently I connected it up again, I plugged in the camera and everything worked.

Back when I was a kid, I used to record our weekly gas and electricity meter readings in a little notebook.

Azure DevOps release pipelines have lots of options to do things how you want.

I didn’t make any goals for 2020, or if I did, I didn’t officially announce them. 2020 has been a hard year for all of us, 2021 is going to be better.

I saw a tweet about building a twitter clone being harder than you would think.

It has been a bit of a mad week this week.

I use sp_send_dbmail to send results of sql queries by email to business users.

Been a quiet week, so wasn’t expecting to have much to write on here, however a few things happened worth talking about.

I know Active Directory is fussy about clocks being in sync however not sure how todays issue happened.

One of my favourite podcasts is Troy Hunts weekly update.

Have you wondered what info you are leaking via your response headers?

My last blog post was over six months ago.

Let’s Encrypt is amazing, you can easily add SSL certificates to any website and automate the renewal process.

It has just been announced at the annual Star Trek Las Vegas (#STLV ) convention that Patrick Stewart is going to return to his role as Jean-Luc Picard in a new TV Show.

Terraform is a way to script the creation of Azure Resources.

Automated releases of software are great but how can we add an element of feedback so only good releases go live.

So you have created a super API that does something amazing.

Azure Key Vault is a secure way of storing your keys, certificates and secrets so your application can access everything it needs to but you don’t have them being stored insecurely anywhere such as in source control.