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Developers are the destroyers of hardware

I've had a few discussions with some of my colleagues and friends in software development, and one of the things we all agree on is that there is nothing worse than a slow development environment. A lot of us work with IDEs, some need to compile their code,

Fun with Firewalls

Firewalls are not fun. I've got to open with that statement as I've been doing a lot of work with firewalls in the past couple of weeks. It's not been the most enjoyable of experiences, but I can see why it is needed. I&

A reminder about backups

I'm a huge advocate of taking backups of things. So much so, I've got my own home server backing up to "the cloud" with all of my files on it. It needs a bit of an organisational shuffle I think, but the idea is

Sensible SVN Structuring

Sensible SVN Structuring

SVN, or any other version control system for that matter, should always be used when developing code. It doesn't matter if it's for a single person project, or a huge project involving hundreds of different developers. Version control is essential. Recently I've been involved

Coding basics: DRY programming

I’ve been working on an old code base recently, a one which I have inherited, and looking through it I was frustrated at a lot of the code involved. Don’t get me wrong, that’s normal for most programmers when they inherit an old project, but I’m

Home Media Server - Part 3 - Samba Configuration

As part of the file server set up, I've created a Samba share in order to facilitate easily adding files to it form other devices around the house. It's not been plain sailing, and I'm still not convinced my setup is right, but here&

Home file server - part 2

After posting my intention of building a home file server [https://www.garybell.co.uk/home-file-server-the-hardware] for storing my movies, pictures, music and probably other files, I had to order some new hard drives to give me the space I think I will need. They have now arrived so I