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Starting a new adventure
I have recently moved my last project RentAssured.ie into maintenance, so it’s time to start a new project. Unlike RentAssured this will be a personal project, that I’m looking to turn into a business. For that reason I not going to…
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Why I haven’t been blogging
I haven’t written any posts here in a long time. This was because I have been busy with my first paying freelance project. To be honest I could have made time to keep writing for this blog but it felt…
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Creating a new Project in 7 steps with .Net MVC & Visual Studio Part 1
Over the next 2 posts I will be creating a starting point for a .Net MVC Application. The first post will concentrate on creating an empty project with a structure that can be used to build an application using your…
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Think before seeding data
Today, myself and a colleague both needed to re-build our local databases for different reasons. This was in a .Net MVC application so I fired up SQL Management Studio and deleted the database. Then I ran my migrations and they…
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Automating your development process
Automating the development process as much as possible is quite common in larger teams where they have time and resources to implement it without slowing the development of the application. When you are working as a single developer or in…
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Architecture, a developers view
Hmm, where to start. This is a topic that occasionally makes me feel lost. As a project develops I sometime find myself second guessing my previous decisions. Why did I chose this, what was I thinking when I wrote that…
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My 3 development wishes
Todays post was supposed to be easy and light. That didn’t happen. I had planned on writing about such things as A big desk A whiteboard Free dev environments Private source control A good desk chair A window with a view…
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So you’ve graduated now what ?
After I finished my B.Sc in Software Engineering I didn’t know what to do. Unfortunately I graduated in 2010 and in general it was pretty hard to get a job in Ireland. A lot of places including IT firms had…
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Why I created this blog
I started this blog in 2013 while I was looking for work as a entry level software developer. I had planned on using it to write about projects that I was working on, hoping that maybe a small company would…
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Cleanliness & Organisation is Godliness
Some of what I’m writing should be pretty obvious but going by the state of any lecturers office I’ve ever been in, you will probably never be though this in university or college. I want to talk about the software…
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