What is the difference between Development and Operations?

I want to learn Development and eventually move into a development role. But what is the difference between development and what I already do?

How complex are my stored procedures?

Recently me and my development team have been looking at performance and how to improve it.

Top 10 Warp 11 Songs

I am a big Warp 11 fan. Warp 11 are a Star Trek rock band from Sacramento, California. Their songs often feature bad language, sex and drinking but always feature references to Star Trek characters and episodes and a good dose of humour.

Software Developer Quiz

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.

My 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. The .git folder was over 500Mb in size.

I love Nagios

You may not have heard of Nagios but it has saved my bacon quite a few times.

Nagios is an open source server monitoring application that runs on many linux flavours.

I can’t remember exactly when I first installed nagios but I am guessing it was…

As A Service

In Cloud Computing there are a lot of terms that end aas or As a Service. Most of these I hadn’t heard of until I started writing this list.

Any service that is delivered over the internet instead of hosted locally on your network or PC could in theory be described as an As a…

SQL Server Management Studio

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

Interview questions

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.