It's been a long time since I turned my old PC into a home media server, but time has come for that machine and some of its components, so it's time it retired with grace. Fortunately the main issues are around the network card, which stops working every time it…
If you have a website, the chances are it runs on a CMS (Content Management System). There are hundreds of them out there, some you will have heard of; Wordpress is the obvious one. Others include Drupal, Joomla, and Umbraco. These are great for the most part, as they require…
It's been a while since I last posted anything, despite starting off really well with weekly posts since moving to the Ghost platform. This hasn't fully been out of choice, however. My enforced break from the computer outside of work hours has been down to an injury. I broke my…
There's hardly a week goes by that Facebook isn't in the news for one thing or another - usually something privacy related. Privacy and data protection have been firmly on everyone in Europe's radar following the introduction of the new data protection laws (GDPR) in May 2018; and being in…
I use Gitlab a lot. I use it for personal projects and have also implemented it at work - I love the platform. Others are available, but for me, having everything in one place (though risky!) saves me having several tabs open.I've previously covered what CI/CD is, and…
It's been one of the buzzwords around development offices in recent years, and everyone is wanting a piece of the efficiency generating DevOps, but what are the benefits of it, and how do you get started? It's not as difficult as it may seem, but might now always deliver the…
Sat on a train heading through the Welsh countryside, I've been doing some browsing and shopping on my mobile phone (yes, there is mobile signal in strange parts of the Welsh landscape), and have been reliving usability issues in a number of vendors which would make my shopping experience much…
Most people are run all realising that the cloud is just someone else's computer which you use for a time. Cloud computing and the benefits of elastic computing are available, but not everyone will we benefits from their investment in "the cloud ", and many will be put off…
I've posted about my reasons for switching blogging platforms to Ghost, but ahead of doing so I wanted to be able to compare the performance benefits of doing so. When I used Wordpress, I was managing the infrastructure myself, but also had to keep on top of the platform, including…
If you are reading this, you may have noticed that there's a new look and feel to the site. I've moved from my self-hosted WordPress platform to a managed Ghost blog. There at several authors which I respect who have made the same change, and I am doing so for…