wade womersley – york based software engineer
wade womersley – york based software engineer
I’ve been working on a new as-fast-as-possible platform for a specific situation I can’t go in to right now but I wanted to use MongoDB, however, I needed to reduce costs and use AWS so I wanted to use DocumentDB and needed to compare. Sadly DocumentDB does not cover 100% of MongoDB. Here’s the comparison: … Read More “MongoDB vs DocumentDB” »
PHP is a widely used programming language that has been evolving rapidly in recent years. PHP 8.2 is the latest release, which came out on November 25th, 2021. This version brings several improvements, new features, and bug fixes, making it more efficient and secure than PHP 7.4. In this blog post, I’ll briefly discuss the … Read More “PHP 8.2 vs 7.4” »
So I asked Bard to give me a reason to help me as as PHP developer then digged in to each point. Here’s the answers and when I tried: Bard can help a PHP developer in a number of ways, including (wht: So TL;DR: ChatGPT is bounds ahead of Bard and I’m disappointed by that, … Read More “Google Bard – PHP developer viewpoint” »
I am loving the evolution of AI in the last year: it’s really developing rapidly and, if you still know how to rephrase your requests to work around limitations of the current implementations you can get a lot out of it. Google Bard and ChatGPT are two of the most popular chatbots on the market. … Read More “Google Bard vs ChatGPT – a quick review” »
So time to start blogging again, years of not doing it, I’ll slowly work up again so it will probably be a slow ramp up. I’ve had a rather comfortable life the last few years so let myself slip, as most of us are experiencing now, that is no longer the case so I feel … Read More “Years later, starting to blog” »
When I found out the world was finally going to get at home VR I got myself signed right up on the pre-orders for the Vive: my thoughts were simple, if I was going to spend money on VR I wanted to be able to move around in a virtual world, not just my head…a … Read More “HTC Vive – Home user with a room to use review” »
Donald Trump is always there to provide amusement. His most recent outing is him reminiscing about 9/11 and the people there; however in his mind I think he was shopping for cheeto’s to mind up and recover his face with. I was down there and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-11, … Read More “Donald Trump mistakes 9/11 for 7-Eleven” »
NASA recently released a video of the Aurora Borealis from space and it is beautiful. What’s more it’s in 4K so you can really enjoy the clarity and beauty of this wonder of nature/science. It’s not just the aurora that gets a view too – as this is a video of space from earth you … Read More “Enjoy the Aurora Borealis from Space in 4K Glory” »
In a move that will increase users of Microsoft’s newest browser, Edge, by around the population of the ISS; you can now place voice and video calls from your browser without plugins. From the Skype blog Today, we’re excited to announce that Skype for Web, Outlook.com, Office Online and OneDrive now support real-time, plugin free … Read More “Skype comes to Edge without plugins – internet remains unchanged” »
Amazon currently have £10 off the rather impressive 26,800 mAh portable charger that supports Qualcomm’s quick charge 2.0 specification for rapid charging. For those of you with an iPhone 6 you’ll get 10 full charges, with a Macbook 3 full charges. Samsung Galaxy S6? Seven full charges. Buy one at Amazon now for £39.99 (£10 … Read More “Quickcharge 2.0 portable 26,800 mAh charger – under £40 deal” »
