Nick Kewney

Needs extra legroom on planes

Hey 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

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

March 2, 2015 2:52 pm

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

December 19, 2014 10:50 am

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

November 13, 2014 7:30 pm

Self-Executing Functions in JavaScript

I’ve been steadily migrating my JavaScript assets to use self executing functions (and more recently literals) as they are a good way to enforce scope

October 29, 2014 4:38 pm

Using a Git repository with an existing Heroku app

You can take an existing Git repo and add a remote using the git URL provided when you created your app. You may need to

September 29, 2014 8:20 pm

Deleting duplicate records using T-SQL

WITH cte AS ( SELECT [Field1], [Field2] row_number() OVER(PARTITION BY [Field1], [Field2] ORDER BY [Field1]) AS [rn] FROM [Table1] WHERE [Column1]=[Condition1] ) DELETE cte WHERE

September 25, 2014 1:19 pm

George Square, Glasgow – 19th September #throughglass

I was working late at our St. Vincent Place HQ on the day after the referendum and heard some noise down at George Square with Google

September 19, 2014 6:16 pm

T-SQL script for identifying deadlocked processes

A useful script for identifying SQL deadlock cause/victim. WITH [Blocking] AS (SELECT w.[session_id] ,s.[original_login_name] ,s.[login_name] ,w.[wait_duration_ms] ,w.[wait_type] ,r.[status] ,r.[wait_resource] ,w.[resource_description] ,s.[program_name] ,w.[blocking_session_id] ,s.[host_name] ,r.[command] ,r.[percent_complete]

August 26, 2014 10:17 pm