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The Great British Bake Off and The Great British Sewing Bee are very popular TV shows. Each week the contestants take part in a baking or sewing challenge and the judges choose the best and the worst, with the worst having to leave. This is very entertaining as you watch the drama between the contestants and the...
I am lazy, I won’t try and deny that. When my alarm goes off in the morning, I will snooze it for twenty minutes or so before getting out of bed. In my work my laziness continues. Remote Desktop (or RDP) is probably my number one laziness tool. For those that don’t know RDP allows you to connect to another computer and...
For a while now I have been listening to podcasts. For those that don’t know a podcast is an audio file that you can download and listen to, usually about a topic you are interested in. The topics that interest me are obviously Star Trek, Science and Technology and IT stuff. I mainly listen to them in the car when I am...
So I have been working through the challenges on the freecodecamp website and one of the unique things that this site does is give you the chance to program with another person. I am an introvert and if you were to ask me to pick up the phone and ring someone I will procrastinate a lot before doing it (if I do it at...
I got excited earlier this week as I started playing around with the javascript I have been learning. I thought I would try and create useful javascript that could be applied to an online filestore. Somewhere that you could upload, delete, edit files and folders and various options to do with your files would popup via...
There is no escaping the fact that we are in 2015 now. My new years resolution is to do more coding. Over Christmas I thought I would have a go at https://www.codecademy.com I completed the javascript course and I was just wondering what I should try next when I saw a tweet about freecodecamp Since then I have been...
As today is New Years eve I thought it would be a good chance to look back over the last year. At the start of the year I finally got agreement for the installation of a 30MB leased line. This was an amazing achievement as I had been really struggling to keep everything working on our ADSL connections and the...
Moving house, lack of internet and lack of inspiration has caused a lack of posts recently but hopefully more to come. Been doing some filing and found an old software developer quiz. Thought I would have a go. Many thanks to Keith for originally writing the quiz. Questions: Write a function that determines if a string...
On Friday night I had the urge to fire up Visual Studio and tomorrow (Monday) I move house. What’s with that? Why am I in a programming mood when I have boxes to pack and shelves to take apart? For the last few weeks I have been too busy with other things to do much programming or when I had the time I felt more like...
I listen to the dot net rocks podcast and they ask this question every show. (If you don’t listen then you should!) I don’t know what my answer would be as there are so many gadgets and cool things that I like the sound of. I might get a surface pro 3, it’s a tablet with attachable keyboard that’s more powerful than my...