Scott Hanselman’s superb video on text editing is a must watch for developers of all levels because it is something that we as developers do on a daily basis, whether it is in a source file, JSON, XML or just a vanilla text file. Here are four keyboard shortcuts I […]
This was my third year in a row attending NDC London and it remains my favorite conference. You can read about my earlier visits in 2018 and 2019. The Operating System As in previous years, the location for NDC London 2020 was the Queen Elizabeth II Centre which is an […]
Here’s what I learnt when building two To Do applications. One was built using pure JavaScript and the other used jQuery with a smidgen of JavaScript. Each To Do list had to satisfy several basic functions. The user had to be able to add tasks, remove tasks, save tasks and […]
Thanks to Scott Hanselman’s tweet. I went off and had an enjoyable couple of hours building Jerrie Pelser’s Airport Explorer and learnt a lot more than I was expecting. Firstly the app is a single page ASP.NET Razor application, something I didn’t even know existed but now will be my first choice to […]
After several fruitless attempts to contact my previous web host in order to add HTTPS to this site I gave up and moved this blog to WordPress. Additionally I was getting increasingly bored with the management of a self hosted WordPress site with challenges such as deciding which versions of WordPress […]
