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CHRIS LOCKE
Database Developer | SQL Server & .NET | 37 Years in IT | VB6-to-.NET Migration Specialist
Colchester, Essex | contact@chrisjlocke.co.uk | 07594 616 440 | GitHub | LinkedIn Notice period: 4 weeks
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- 37 years’ experience across the full IT stack, from hardware and networking through to database and application development
- Maintain a live operational database of 354,500 UK hotel records and 23 automated import processes handling up to 67,000 records per run
- Redesigned commission processing, cutting a 24 man-hour monthly run down to 3, and weekly transaction matching from 16 hours to 1
- Hands-on experience migrating legacy VB6 systems into VB.NET and SSIS, with C# actively in progress
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Converting flat HTML page to Hugo
Hugo is a program to create static HTML files from Markdown files. Its quicker and easier to create pages and content than using Wordpress, and also means you don’t have to keep Wordpress up-to-date, or worry about a website getting hacked. However, it does mean you have to convert a flat-file HTML to a Hugo template. Here is a guide written by Claude to assist.
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Sorting out the Ioniq's 12V battery
Like most EVs, the Ioniq Electric still runs a small 12V lead-acid battery alongside the main traction pack, quietly keeping the low-voltage systems alive. Mine finally gave up, so a replacement was overdue.
The swap itself was straightforward, but reconnecting it threw up a couple of quirks I wasn’t expecting. Regenerative braking reset back to its default level, rather than remembering the setting I’d left it on. Not a big deal, just a case of dialling it back in from the paddle shifters.