Funky Si's Blog

While at Microsoft Ignite I heard about a lot of cool tech that I want to know more about.

I have just spent the first day at the conference Microsoft Ignite | The Tour.

I have been using Azure DevOps (Or VSTS or VSO etc) for a while now and one of the great features is doing automatic builds with every check-in.

Its been a while since I first released Pwned Pass so lets have a look at where we are now.

This is my annual lets make some goals for the new year blog post.

As 2018 starts to draw to a close let’s look at some of the highlights from the past year.

Recently I have been investigating what all the fuss is about Docker and it has been well worth my time as Docker is pretty awesome for automating stuff.

Remember me?

Recently I was asked how to convert a number to a string.

Let’s Encrypt is a free way to get a SSL certificate onto your website and until recently I had never tried it.

DNS is the backbone of the internet and as such I believe every developer should know something about the basics and not just leave it for the sysadmin to sort.

Reviewing code is a great habit to get into.

A friend asked me how to get started in Android Development and I thought I might have a go at answering that question here.

For a while I have been mentoring a friend and I thought I might share some top tips I have implemented in my career so far.

Who was your hero growing up?

A new version of Pwned Pass is available from Google Play.

The code base I am working on contains a huge if block.

One of the websites I have been working on has been displaying an error in the console.

A content Security Policy or CSP is a HTTP response header that defines what sources of content can be loaded on a web page.

Earlier this year I signed up for pluralsight.

I have blogged a few times about interfaces , and how useful they are for producing good quality maintainable code.

We are in the process of moving our companies websites onto the Azure platform.

Last week I looked at testing the UI of mobile apps , this week lets look at how we could do a similar thing for websites.

Since I started creating an android app I have been writing simple UI tests.

It is 2018 so it must be time to think about what my plans and goals are for the new year.

As 2017 starts to draw to a close let’s look at some of the highlights from the past year.

Azure Table storage is cheap way to store data, however it has some drawbacks that you should be aware of.

Source control is bread and butter for web developers, however not so much for SQL developers and other business people.

Writing SQL queries is typically done with SQL Management Studio (SSMS).

A while back I blogged about learning about interfaces as I didn’t really understand the value of them.

DNS is the backbone of the internet.

I tried to resist but I am going to have to write about the new Star Trek series Discovery.

In November 2015 it was announced that a new Star Trek series was going to be launched.

I think Azure is great, but there is loads to it so I can never know about all of its features.

I recently blogged about using Azure Web Jobs , Azure Function is another way of doing the same thing, lets look at how they work.

Pwned Pass is now available from the Google Play Store.

For the past week or so I have been playing around with Xamarin and creating an android app.

For a while I have found myself writing the same bits of code for different web projects.

For a while the Async and Await commands in c# have confused me.

I recently watched Troy Hunt’s What Every Developer Must Know about HTTPS course on Pluralsight.

Whenever I write a new test I have to think how best to do it.

I am a fan of Azure but today I have been looking at AWS.

I keep hearing about Azure WebJobs but I have never used them.

A while ago I blogged about promoting my blog with Buffer.

Last week I talked about Power BI , what it is and some of the different services you can use with it.

The term Business Intelligence (BI) refers to technologies, applications and practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information.

Have you heard of the website https://haveibeenpwned.com ?

I am really excited a new Star Trek Discovery trailer has just been released, if you haven’t seen it yet, watch it now.

No blog post this week.

High Charts is a javascript library that allows graphs and charts to easily be added to web pages.