Windows Terminal
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…
Database Integration Testing
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…
Apple RISCing it all
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 …
Another man’s ML
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…
Toy apps only?
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…
The A-list cloud providers
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…
IdS4 on .NET Core 3.1
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.…
More WordPress
I previously dabbled with moving blogs off of WordPress.com onto Azure. This is a new story about moving on from there.…
…and the number of the counting shall be 3
.NET Core 3.0 is here, allegedly the penultimate stop on the roadmap before the Singularity, when they finally bin .NET Framework and unify on top of Windows XP… er… .NET 5. The news are packed with stuff about WinForms,…
Show me the money
Payment gateways for small businesses. What do you look for in them? Personally I don’t care – I crave simple pleasures.…