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.
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…
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…
"Your application is broken", they say. You ask what doesn't work, and they say: "We get an error". Fantastic. What sort of error? "Well, it's on a blue screen". Aha... In recent posts, I've covered some approaches on doing complex validation and monitoring the health o…
Anyone who has ever deployed their web application to production has already ran into the problem of how to monitor the health of that application. Is it online? Is it running? How fast is it performing? Are there any errors I need to be aware of? Which version is deployed? Sounds familiar? In this…