I’ve just changed roles and it turns out I now need to learn some Scala for a project migrating an internal app from a Scala backend to a .NET Core backend. This project currently builds on a Mac but I figured I’d try to get a grip on how to Read more…
I was previously hosting this site on a WebApp instance in Azure but partly due to cost reasons I decided to migrate it over to AWS. There’s a variety of guides available to help with parts of this but nothing that covers the full process so I figured I’d try Read more…
As I seem to have been shuffling a lot of data about recently I thought I’d try to document as much of it as possible. Google BigQuery to Google Cloud Storage Google Cloud Storage to SQL SQL to Google Cloud Storage Google Cloud Storage to Azure Blob Storage SQL to Read more…
This is a list of useful articles which I’ll try and update when I find them rather than immediately forgetting them after reading! 2020/01/22 – Designing a microservices architecture A basic introduction to designing a microservice architecture. 2020/01/22 – Make secure .NET Microservices and Web Applications An overview of how Read more…
I’ve just built a new computer and have been setting up all my software on it again, as part of that I need to set up Calibre to download news and send it to my Kindle via my Gmail account. The first thing to take care of is whitelisting the Read more…
Whilst writing a process to upload instore purchases to Facebook using their offline conversion API I discovered that their API only accepts a maximum of 2,100 events in any one API call. As I already ahd a nice list of events I had a look around and managed to find Read more…
Recently I’ve been trying to create a test Android app using Xamarin that uses push and in-app messaging provided by Urban Airship. Although I figured this would be pretty simple it turned out to be more trickey than I first thought, probably due to both my own lack of skill Read more…
Although there’s a date picker present in HTML5 this won’t always work in older browsers and doesn’t look that great anyway so it’s generally better to do this via jQuery. First off add the following script tags to the head section of your page. Next download the latest stable release Read more…
I generally end up forgetting how to return results from a SQL stored procedure within .NET so I figured I’d put it here for reference.