A dad and a software architect with a passion for photography and music. These are my thoughts and opinions, sometimes accompanied by code and photos.
A dad and a software architect with a passion for photography and music. These are my thoughts and opinions, sometimes accompanied by code and photos.
It finally happened. I finally decided to move my blog from the old Wordpress system to Ghost. I started the project about 3 months ago, working on the code and migration when I had some spare time. It took a bunch of time, because I wrote some custom code to migrate the old content to a new Markdow…
I am sitting in the middle of Cambridge, attending the Ternary Hackathon. Microsoft is sponsoring a challenge, and giving away some Xbox One Xs for the best use of Cognitive Services. Because of that, it was only fair that we also showcased a quick and dirty sample. We ended up showing two quick dem…
Between the 10th and 15th of July, our team participated in the NWG Innovation Festival. It was a genuinely fun experience - hackathon type event. And how could it not be, Northumbrian Water Group has made every effort to make it that way, including setting up the Funder Dome, and bringing Dwaine Pi…
As a developer, I never cared much about Data Lake. While I’ve always sort of been responsible for the full stack, including the database stuff, I tended to shy away from stuff that had too much to do with data. I’ve been working with some interesting customers recently, though, that have interestin…
The year 2016 started off really interestingly. On January 1st, I got an email, telling me I have been awarded the Microsoft's MVP award - in the category of Microsoft Azure. This is a great honour, and I am incredibly proud to join the company of some amazing Slovenian MVPs. I consider the award a…
ASP.NET 5, along with MVC 6, comes with a bunch of new stuff. One of the more interesting ones is without a doubt the View Location Expanders. They basically make it easy to completely customize the location in which the View Engine looks for a view. Where is this useful? Well, one such example is f…