Posts Tagged "2015"
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Top Reads for 2015
2015 This year I've logged most of the news, opinion pieces and feature articles I've read on the amazing Pocket service. It has a number of neat features, but gets out of the way *just* enough to let me save articles and read them whenever I need. Plus, I like the Pocket...
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Loading Spatial Data into Azure SQL Part 2
I left off my last post uploading the polygons to Azure SQL, which took just a few hours. My next step was to be able to retrieve the LGA (LGA name) from the database, given a set of coordinates. This is a fairly easy task with the cool spatial datatypes...
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Loading Spatial Data Into SQL Azure Part 1
I'm currently working on a university project in which we have elected to use a client-server architecture with an Android app on the front end and a web API working as the backend server. This server is being run on Azure's App Service as a .NET Web API project (since...
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The Chromebook: a travelling tale
I don't think I've ever really written about ChromeOS properly before. I've come close to it and I've acknowledge the potential it could have in a future where native apps simply don't need to exist. After using a Chromebook almost exclusively as my main computing device for the past six...
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Reflection
As the first semester of uni for 2015 concludes, I decided I’d do a little review of what I did well and didn’t do well this semester. I got this idea from Lachlan Harman (a.k.a. author of APixelShort) who does a similar thing every semester.