When writing .NET Core+ web applications, you will want your JavaScript files to be unminified in development, and minified when you release to production. You can use the “environment” tag helper to distinguish between the two, but this adds unnecessary noise and it’s too easy to change one and forget... [Read More]

I’m working on a project to create an SFTP Scheduler, and needed an SFTP server to test with. I work on Windows but have an Ubuntu virtual machine that I run through Hyper-V - and I didn’t realise how easy it was to set up a test server. For my... [Read More]

We have been looking into columnstore indexes to boost the performance of our data warehouse at IUA. [Read More]

I received some large CSV files that needed importing into a database, but unfortuntely there were hundreds of lines that contained line feeds so they would not import correctly. [Read More]

This is my personal summary of the book Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures. It’s important to note that this is only written to jog my memory - it is almost impossible to capture this book as a summary as there is so much in... [Read More]