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Working with Azure Functions

This post is an overview of Azure Functions based on the session “Working with data using Azure Functions” that was first delivered at SQLBits with Liam Moat. See the slides for the session at Talks/Working with data using Azure Functions.

What are Azure Functions?

Azure Functions are …

Using GitHub Codespaces for Hugo development

In this blog post, I try using Github Codespaces to write this blog post about using Codespaces to write blog posts in Hugo! Yes, it’s meta 🤓

A GitHub Codespace is a cloud based developer environment attached to your GitHub repository. It contains the necessary dependencies to be able to work …

Stop Teams being a noisy neighbour

You’ll hear about the noisy neighbour problem in tech, but did you know they meant Microsoft Teams? 😉 Teams as a collaboration tool has become increasingly important in a remote environment and many folks have talked about good meeting etiquette. What I’d like to do in this blog post, is …

Joining Microsoft

Over the past five years I’ve been running my own consultancy and software companies. Last year was a period of reflection for both Nightingale HQ and myself. What do we want to be and where should we be spending our time? The answer for Nightingale HQ (NHQ) is a change towards more of a …

Hello World!

Hey hey! Welcome to the requisite first post in a new blog 👋

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