As you have probably heard Star Trek is coming back to TV. I recently joined with the Sci Fi Waffle podcast to discuss. Sci Fi Waffle: Episode 12 – STAR TREK IS BACK!! In this episode we discuss the great news that Star Trek IS BACK!!. Shawn and I are joined again by James Roberts and TrekMates News feed Editor Simon...
Having a website is an easy way to reach people across the globe. This website has reached people in almost every continent. I have had visitors in each of the following countries. United States United Kingdom Canada Germany Australia India France Vietnam Netherlands Poland China Russia Sweden European Union New...
I don’t want to go to work Just want to hang with Captain Kirk I am a big Warp 11 fan. Warp 11 are a Star Trek rock band from Sacramento, California. Their songs often feature bad language, sex and drinking but always feature references to Star Trek characters and episodes and a good dose of humour. I first listened to...
This weekend I took James on an adventure. As he is only 8 weeks old it was a fairly low key adventure but hopefully he enjoyed himself. St Michael le Belfrey have been organizing an event for Dads once a month and this month I wanted to give it a go. I have been looking forward to going for a while. Looking after a...
I recently read a blog post by Pinal Dave about how you can backup straight to Azure Storage. The procedure he described is only available for SQL Server 2014 or later. I won’t go into detail of this method as Pinal describes it better than I can, but the basic of it requires setting up credentials and then running a...
My latest podcast can be found http://www.trekmate.org.uk/the-hunted-tng-s3-e11-the-battle-bridge/ and feedback can be left on the trekmate forums http://forum.trekmatefamily.com/2015/10/the-hunted-tng-s3-e11-review-the-battle-bridge/ While the Enterprise-D is reviewing a seemingly idyllic planet’s application for...
The Software as a Service (SaaS) website that I work on has been sold to lots of clients now. Which is great news. However the more Azure websites we have, the more websites we have to administer, especially if like us you take advantage of Traffic Manager which requires multiple website in different regions. Azure has...
I have been asked to investigate adding a fail over internet connection to one of our offices. Currently this office is connected via a wireless link with our head office. Unfortunately we have recently experienced some poor performance with this connection, this has now been corrected but like all technology there is...
For the past few months I have been deploying changes to my companies database every couple of weeks or so. Over a weekend when the database was not being used I would make a backup of the database, load up visual studio, deploy the database changes and copy a couple of front-end files. My weekends and evenings have...
I am pleased to announce the birth of James David Martin Foster weighing 9 lb 12 on 19th August 2015. Mother and Baby (and Father) are doing well. I am not a baby person, I hate children and I run a mile from other people’s babies. But James performed some magic on me and now I will do anything for him. If you have had...