Writing

I have finally gotten round to reading the famous GOOS book that has been around since 2009. Here is my summary.

Another post in my blog post series where I try to cover all of the Gang of Four Design Patterns in five minutes each, once again we have one of the Creational Patterns... the Prototype Pattern!

I give you my top tips on how you can pass your Scrum.org PSM1 exam to become a fully certified Scrum Master.

The second post in my blog post series where I try to cover all of the Gang of Four Design Patterns in five minutes each, this time it's one of the Creational Patterns... the Factory Pattern!

The first of posts in my blog post series where I try to cover all of the Gang of Four Design Patterns in five minutes each, this time it's one of the Creational Patterns... the Builder Pattern!

Tired of brittle tests by testing your Vuex actions, mutations and getters all separately? Vue Test Utils has the solution!

Fear of missing out & imposter syndrome are two serious problems that many software developers have to deal with. Trust me, you're not alone... & trust me, you're also fantastic at what you do, regardless what you might think.

Need to quickly learn a new code base or upskill in some technologies? Here are my tips.

Understanding TDD is one thing, but putting it into practice is another!

Lambda functions are nice... but sometimes you just want a whole API!

After an hour of tearing my hair out...

When you forget to add a .gitignore to your project...

I attended the latest Designing Microservices workshop at NDC London 2019...

Does this title incite you? Well, I have the solution on Tuesday March 19th!

From your hard drive to the AWS cloud in seconds!

So... I won a free Raspberry Pi Zero from Google! Then I bought some USB speakers for it and chaos ensued!

A simple solution, to an annoying problem.

Discussing our challenge for December 2018...

Our monthly challenge for November 2018 is complete...

Oceans, docks, whales & five dollars.

Used to ReSharper bindings like me? Get 'em in VS Code!.

Like ConEmu on Windows? Get the same on Mac OS!

When you waste an entire hour trying to define a connection string...

I think it's safe to say that there's a lot of hype around .NET Core nowadays because of it being cross-platform, open source, etc, which isn't really something we've been used to from Microsoft technologies over the years. So as someone who works in a predominantly .NET dominated environment, I wanted to dedicate some time playing around with it, building a simple API & just investigating how different it is to the regular .NET Framework.

As someone who uses Dropbox on pretty much all the different gazillion devices I own, I came across a rather frustrating issue. For some reason, almost every time my Macbook Pro would try to synchronise files modified on one of my Windows devices with Dropbox, meaning the older versions still on my Macbook would need updating, I'd end up with a 'conflicted copy' version of that file being generated by Dropbox.