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I’m Nick! I build & lead teams who create products & solutions that help people do more.
I am a passionate technical leader & full-stack software architect with over 14 years’ experience in designing & delivering large–scale commercial cloud SaaS software solutions, predominantly using Microsoft technologies.
As a hands-on leader, I have a proven track record of building effective on-site & remote software teams, based on the sharing of good practice, defining clear processes, implementing best-of-breed systems and shipping quality code.
Latest Posts
New Build: Stacked Liquid Cooled Mini ITX Powerhouse
My new build is finally complete! Mini ITX motherboard with liquid cooled i7 4790 & stacked out memory (and case lighting of course!)
Volkswagen Congress Hearing
Listen to 1:11:40… “This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason,” (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Great Scottish Run 10k
Layer Systems team snapped just before the Great Scottish Run 10k
Happy 30th Birthday Claire Kewney
Happy 30th birthday to my lil’ sis! (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UC569TZeTQ) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
jQuery Change Persister for DOM text inputs
/* jQuery tbChangePersister v1.0.0 – April 2015 by Nick Kewney */ (function ($) { $.fn.tbChangePersister = function (next, defaultDelay, domStorageSuffix) { return this.each(function () {
Extracting a price from a VARCHAR in T-SQL
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_extract_currency_from_string] (@string VARCHAR(1000)) RETURNS VARCHAR(255) AS BEGIN DECLARE @var VARCHAR(1000) = @string DECLARE @len INT = LEN(@var) DECLARE @start_position INT ,@end_position INT DECLARE
Web Application Security Testing Tools
Port Scanners Nmap – general port scanner Vulnerability Scanners Nikto and Wikto – web server vulnerability checkers Nessus – general purpose vulnerability checker WebInspect –
Virgin Money London Marathon 2015
I will be running the 2015 Virgin Money London Marathon on 26th April 2015 for the British Lung Foundation who are currently funding research on
Arduino Christmas Tree Project
I decided that it was essential to give our customers the ability to turn our Christmas tree lights on and off over the web. Check out
The number of records in the table exceeds the maximum number of 5000 – Dynamics
When attempting to export records via Microsoft Dynamics and the number of records is greater than 5,000, you may receive this error. The number of