The Blog

A collection of articles about Software, Programming, Cinema and Technology.

A small blog based post about adding vector search to my mongdb instance using mongodb, azure, vector indexes and how this produced a fancy search engine for my music website.

Published by Ian Jowett on Tuesday, 22 July 2025 09:23

A quick summary of the useful latest updates from Microsoft in Visual Studio 2022 v17.14

Published by Ian Jowett on Tuesday, 27 May 2025 08:29

Key Differences and Considerations between System.Data.Sqlclient vs Microsoft.Data.Sqlclient

Published by Ian Jowett on Tuesday, 20 May 2025 09:30

Mongo DB have written a great article on Geospatial Queries, this is a quick blog post summarizing that blog post, and how to quickly setup geo spatial queries in Mongo DB. 

Published by Ian Jowett on Friday, 11 April 2025 11:26

On April 2nd 2025, Jimmy Bogard the developer behind AutoMapper and MediatR published an article on his blog titled "AutoMapper and MediatR Going Commercial". This is a small post about what is AutoMapper and what does it do, and what are the alternatives.

Published by Ian Jowett on Tuesday, 8 April 2025 09:44

How to host a web server inside a .Net application using version 9 and Kestrel Server.

Published by Ian Jowett on Tuesday, 25 March 2025 14:43

An article about the different controls for MAUI mobile apps.

Published by Ian Jowett on Monday, 3 March 2025 13:35

A brief story about OnlyMusik a platform aimed at providing access to dance music for free.

Published by Ian Jowett on Sunday, 2 March 2025 12:57

A quick blog post about AI helping me with NI validation using regular expressions

Published by Ian Jowett on Thursday, 27 February 2025 13:18

In this comprehensive guide, we'll chart a course through the most essential Blazor components and libraries.

Published by Ian Jowett on Thursday, 27 February 2025 12:05

This is an article articulating the latest updates in visual studio 17.13, the features that have been added in, and maintains a list of the latest minor releases to this version. Stay up-to date on the latest Microsoft Visual Studio updates and features.

Published by Ian Jowett on Wednesday, 12 February 2025 11:26

This article outlines the feature list for Visual Studio 2022 17.12 which was released on November 12, 2024.

Published by OnlyIan on Friday, 17 January 2025 14:58

A bucket is a container for storing objects in a Simple Storage Service. Buckets are similar to file folders and are used to organize and manage data in the cloud.

Published by OnlyIan on Wednesday, 30 October 2024 16:39

On Tuesday 13th August, 2024 Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11. With some exciting updates to productivity and Git Co-Pilot

Published by Ian Jowett on Thursday, 15 August 2024 13:03

The chipmaker is still vaguely profitable, but it seems its losses are weighing heavily.

Published by OnlyIan on Thursday, 1 August 2024 20:33

An introduction to SSIS - SQL Server Integration Services.

Published by OnlyIan on Thursday, 11 July 2024 07:35
Published by OnlyIan on Wednesday, 3 July 2024 10:27

Using Git CoPilot for Visual Studio 2022 to create Javascript functions really quickly.

Published by Ian Jowett on Wednesday, 19 June 2024 12:20

A small blog post about the latest iOS release from Apple.

Published by OnlyIan on Wednesday, 19 June 2024 09:59

By combining brain imaging with AI-based image processing and analysis, Google have reconstructed nearly every cell and all of its connections within a small volume of human brain tissue about half the size of a grain of rice, resulting in 1.4 petabytes (1.4 million gigabytes) of data to encode.

Published by OnlyIan on Wednesday, 5 June 2024 12:47

A short post on what Bing Copilot thinks of Onlyian.com

Published by OnlyIan on Thursday, 30 May 2024 23:58

A quick summary of the useful latest updates from Microsoft in Visual Studio 2022.

Published by Ian Jowett on Thursday, 30 May 2024 15:13

An article about TinyMCE for blazor.

Published by OnlyIan on Wednesday, 22 May 2024 15:24

An article about Microsoft’s answer to a machine learning engine for developers.

Published by OnlyIan on Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:48

Entity framework isn’t for everyone and this article explores to good, the bad and the ugly.

Published by OnlyIan on Monday, 14 August 2023 17:02

This article briefly talks about what is an API, what is JSON and the code needed to call an api in vb, c#, cb6 and javascript so you can call an api.

Published by OnlyIan on Friday, 11 August 2023 10:45

A brief post on GraphQL and it's advantages

Published by OnlyIan on Friday, 4 August 2023 09:46

A blog post about software developers in Manchester.

Published by OnlyIan on Tuesday, 1 August 2023 08:19

A blog about blazor, it's uses, advantages and downfalls

Published by OnlyIan on Tuesday, 1 August 2023 08:01

.NET 8 Preview 6 continue the evolution of C# 12.

Published by OnlyIan on Thursday, 27 July 2023 13:41