Tag: General Programming

• Things to Consider When Exploring Solutions

  • General Programming

  Apart from writing code, driving architecture and designing/re-designing solutions; one of the most common activity for Software Developers is exploring a myriad of possible solutions to roll out a feature or improve an existing one.

  When considering a particular problem being solved for a stakeholder, it’s always important to consider multiple ways of approaching the problem.

  Here are the main things that I consider when making a decision as to which approach should be taken.

  Read more... 6th April 2021

• Simple Containerised Deployments For Hobby Projects

  • Cloud
  • Docker
  • General Programming
  • Hosting
  • How-to
  • Ops
  • Server Admin
  • Side Project

  At work, we deploy all applications as Docker containers via Kubernetes – I really like this way of delivering applications, running on one machine means it will work the same way (in theory) as in another machine. Why not do the same for my Hobby projects albeit a much more simplified way.

  So, this weekend, I made my first attempt – what I wanted to achieve is a proof of concept, .NET Core app talking to MySQL, both of which being docker-ised. I also wanted to use Gitlab’s free CI for it’s simplicity as this is what I’m really after – don’t want to have to write a ton of scripts.

  Read more... 1st April 2019

• API Pagination Problem

  • API
  • General Programming
  • Search

  When we think of pagination – we think SELECT * FROM MYTABLE LIMIT {skip}, {take} – ahhhhhh… ignorance is bliss.

  Let’s go through some of the ways we expose pagination through a Web API and dig a little deeper.

  

  Read more... 26th February 2019

• Me, Then And Now: Software Estimates

  • General Programming
  • Project Management

  Over the last few years, my beliefs in how I Software should be built have changed quite dramatically. There were some years when I spent a majority of my time thinking about the solution and not enough time understanding the problem. I had some years thinking that I don’t know anything, to “I know everything” and everything else in between.

  Today, I wanted to reflect on my view of Software Delivery estimates, and how my view has changed over the years. It’s one of those things that has so many moving parts to it, and you can never really have enough experience to get it quite right.

  Read more... 24th November 2018