Simon FosterinDiaries of ITModel View Controller (MVC)Model View Controller or MVC is a software architectural pattern for implementing user interfaces on computers. It divides a given software…Mar 17, 2016Mar 17, 2016
Simon FosterinDiaries of ITSurface Book ReviewI have just bought myself a new laptop, but it is not just any laptop it is a Microsoft Surface Book.Mar 10, 2016Mar 10, 2016
Simon FosterinDiaries of ITTrying Out Azure Active DirectoryOne 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…Mar 3, 2016Mar 3, 2016
Simon FosterinDiaries of ITCoding myself into a cornerI spend an awful lot of my working life adding new features and improvements to a legacy database system.Feb 25, 2016Feb 25, 2016
Simon FosterinDiaries of ITMy git repository is too large!Today I did a clone of one of my git repositories and it took ages to download. Looking into what got downloaded it was easy to see why…Feb 11, 2016Feb 11, 2016
Simon FosterinDiaries of ITSQL Transaction Log BackupsLike many DBAs I spend a lot of time maintaining my SQL Server backups.Feb 4, 2016Feb 4, 2016
Simon FosterinDiaries of ITDevelopment AnnoyanceI spend a lot of my time creating new features that simplify my companies business processes.Jan 29, 2016Jan 29, 2016
Simon FosterinDiaries of ITDisaster PlanningOver the Christmas break the city of York experienced the worst flooding disaster it has seen in recent years. If you want to help…Jan 14, 2016Jan 14, 2016
Simon FosterinDiaries of ITA look back at 2015Wow! What an amazing year 2015 has been and with 2015 about to end I thought it would be good to look back at what happened in this amazing…Dec 31, 2015Dec 31, 2015
Simon FosterinDiaries of ITChristmas 2015 with the FostersFour months ago James David Martin Foster was born. And he is even more awesome now than when he was born.Dec 24, 2015Dec 24, 2015