Model View Controller or MVC is a software architectural pattern for implementing user interfaces on…
I have just bought myself a new laptop, but it is not just any laptop it is a Microsoft Surface Book.
I think this is probably the first time I have bought myself a top of the range laptop and after a few days of use I am loving it.
One 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 access.
The traditional way to do this would be insert membership tables into my database. The user then…
I spend an awful lot of my working life adding new features and improvements to a legacy database system.
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.
Like many DBAs I spend a lot of time maintaining my SQL Server backups.
From SQL Server I maintain both full backups and transaction log backups. I have often restored my full backups but until recently I have never restored a transaction log backup. All…
I spend a lot of my time creating new features that simplify my companies business processes.
A good example of this is an invoicing system I created. Instead of users working off different spreadsheets and copying and pasting data between various different…
Over the Christmas break the city of York experienced the worst flooding disaster it has seen in recent years. If you want to help donations are being taken at York Flood Appeal.
Luckily I wasn’t affected but it was really sad seeing many of my favourite streets full of…
Wow! 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 year.
January
I started the year with a declaration that 2015 would be my year of code. Well I have…
Four months ago James David Martin Foster was born. And he is even more awesome now than when he was born.
As I write this James only has a few sleeps (as James sleeps multiple times in a day I can’t put an exact number) until his first Christmas…
