Rikard Ottosson on software, systems and the people around them
I have tried to put a piece of API documentation behind interactive authentication. I have various methods that are available to users of different roles. In an attempt to be helpful I wanted to hide the API methods that…
Jeff Bezos may have tripled his fortunes in the last couple of months by price gauging hand sanitiser and bog roll during lockdown with 1000% markup, but some aspects of the empire are less well-functioning. Getting an i…
The old Windows command window, the “DOS prompt” has been around since the beginnings pf Windows NT, and is used when running batch scripts. It uses a model to describe its world that was probably fit for purpose in 1992…
Testing your SQL queries is as important as any other piece of logic. Unless you only do reads and writes, presumably some type of logic will be implemented at least in the form of a query, and you would like to validate…
In the early nineties, things were changing everywhere. The wall had just come down and half of Europe were encountering freedom for the first time in their lives. Metallica had found mainstream success. Hair metal died …
If you have seen the “code review” of Imperial College’s modelling code, after it being tidied up by Microsoft and others, and the reactions to it, I’d like to offer my unsolicited medium temp take on code review, legacy…
Maybe I am unfair, but when using Microsoft development tools, it often feels like they only as an afterthought are adapted for professional development. The main acceptance criterion is mainly – does it look cool to the…
I know a lot of people that work with Microsoft Azure, and I know a few people that work for Amazon Web Services. I go further back with the Azure people, so they get to suffer from my Facebook rants about how much Azure…
Sometimes I write literary content with substance and longstanding impact, and sometimes I just write stuff down that I might need to remember in the future.…
I previously dabbled with moving blogs off of WordPress.com onto Azure. This is a new story about moving on from there.…