Sage Global Hackathon 2018

On Wednesday I had fun in leading a team in the 12 hour Sage Global Hackathon 2018, with teams competing globally in the UK, South Africa, France, Canada, Brazil and Spain. The main theme of the event was: "Delivering or consuming APIs, to improve product interoperability and extensibility, and drive associated efficiencies and growth". On …

Amazon Alexa Workshop

Today I was lucky enough to join an Amazon Alexa workshop in Newcastle ran by Jamie Grossman and Andrea Muttoni from Amazon AlexaDevs, covering some great topics including Render Templates, state and session management, Alexa Voice Profiles, Alexa for Business, localisation and the long awaited notifications (we may be waiting a little longer for this.... 🙂 ) As …

New features in MongoDB 3.6

MongoDB Europe 2017 This week I had front row seats at the MongoDB Europe 2017 conference in London to find out the exciting new features that have been added to the latest release 3.6. The new features have been grouped into the following categories by MongoDB: Speed to Develop: Change streams, retryable writes, tunable consistency, greater …

Henge Docks Review: Macbook Air Vertical docking

Clawing back more desk space for the design savvy For me personally I can't work with a cluttered, untidy desk, with little space and more cables visible than a train station; which is why I thought about docking my Macbook Air and connecting it to my Dell monitor. Having spent some time researching the best …

How .Net developers can get the most out of their Mac

How to run native Visual Studio on your powerful MacBook Air About a year ago I sat there with my shiny new MacBook Air and thought "hmm I would love to run native Visual Studio on here".. Having used Visual Studio for years I felt that Visual Studio Code on a Mac just didn't cut …