Monthly Archives: January 2020

5,231,048 reasons to be cheerful

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No its not a lottery win – but rather then number of steps my fitbit recorded last year. Seems like a staggering figure (not literally) in terms of the number of times I put one foot in front of the other. Those of you who have met me will know that I am an advocate […]

(Don’t fear) the Beaver

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Apologies to Blue Öyster Cult – I couldn’t resist. The beaver is question is DBeaver. I was recently looking at a client issue and needed to import some data into a mariadb database on a hosted platform we use. This was not on my normal development machine where I would have a range of tools […]

SwiftUI – a view from the lab

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Researching an issue I had seen in xcode  console output recently regarding modifying state during view updates led me to a new site https://swiftui-lab.com/.  A site with a difference –  a variety of articles on SwiftUI and specifically picking at those areas of the new technology where documentation is missing, wrong or difficult to find. […]

Goodbye Windows 7 – it was nice knowing you

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We all knew it was coming and that we would have to say goodbye to that stalwart. It was stable – not flashy and had updates that were kind of predictable and manageable. Goodbye Windows 7 – we will miss you as that alternatives are less than stellar. As Microsoft state Microsoft made a commitment […]

Domino V11 – the story continues in 2020

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Domino V11 managed to slide in just under the wire at the end of December 2019. After HCL’s acquisition of the Domino range of collaborative software from IBM – they managed to deliver V10 which fixed a number of outstanding issues and set the stage for the transition to a version of Notes branded and […]