Hardware Why a MacBook might be the perfect development device Let me start by saying I'm not a fan of Apple. I don't own a single Apple device, and the only Apple device I have ever owned is an iPod.
Hardware Not all developers need a 4K monitor This is going to be controversial. And for those developers who's managers read this post and decline their, likely legitimate, request for a 4K screen, I apologise. But, not all
Backups Replacing a drive in Buffalo LS441D after a drive failure I mentioned back in August that I'd changed my backups to use a NAS enclosure rather than a full blown server. I'm glad I did, as I recently suffered a
Hardware 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
Hardware Installing non-free network drivers on Debian As you might have seen, I've been building, and setting up my home server, and during that time, I had a lot of issues getting things working. Some were from my own stupidity (like installing the GRUB loader on the wrong hard drive so
Home Server Creating a home file server - Part 1 This post is the start of a series on setting up a home file server. There’s lots of them out there, but I wanted to document the process I
