12th November 2020
Apple today released the biggest update to macOS in recent years.
It’s so big in fact, it no longer carries the OS X (version 10) moniker it has carried since the early 2000s. No sur; Big Sur carries an all-new version 11.
Sadly, some people may not be able to get it. Find out why in this post.
Miscellaneous
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15th January 2020
Announced around a year ago, Microsoft today released their brand-new
version of Edge – the default web browser since the Windows 10 release.
The new Edge browser is based on Google’s Chromium project. Chromium
is the “base” software that Google builds the Chrome browser on.
Software Development
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12th January 2020
It’s been over a year since the last update to Solid Tools for
Developers – my suite of online tools for developers, system admins and
network managers.
Yesterday I published my latest release which gives the suite a fresh makeover and a few improvements to the tools.
DevOps
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11th January 2020
For my first blog post of 2020, I thought I’d share one of my challenges of being a parent to two boys and a 5-year old Labrador called Mickey: crossing the road.
Reflections
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1st September 2019
It’s 3 years to the day since I made the first commit to what would become Blue Twilight – my open-source PHP photo gallery.
Today I’m delighted to announce the availability of Blue Twilight Cloud.
Software Development
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24th February 2019
Google is the registry behind the new .dev TLD – the ultimate vanity domain for developers.
The .dev extension has historically been used by developers fudging their host files to create realistic-looking development environments. Now, .dev is open in Early Access Preview to allow the world to register their .dev domains.
Software Development, DevOps
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27th January 2019
My first post of 2019 is a tutorial that’s all about the cloud.
I’m going to show you how to use the RunCloud control panel to deploy
a PHP application with a MySQL database on a cloud server from UpCloud.
My friends at UpCloud have also provided a promo-code to get ample
free credit to try out their service. Check out the tutorial for the
details.
Software Development, DevOps
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25th October 2018
It’s almost two years since I published the post on the Visual Studio IDE information message: “delegate invocation can be simplified.” It is now the second most visited article on my blog!
While reviewing some error messages in a new MVC project, I recently learnt something equally as simple and eye-opening.
Software Development
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12th October 2018
My new hosting provider has notified me of 2 maintenance windows next week, 16th and 17th October.
Miscellaneous
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26th July 2018
The Ubuntu team will this week release Ubuntu Server 18.04.1, the first minor revision to 18.04 since its release on April 26th.
In this article, I’ll show you how to upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 using the command-line. This can be used on all Ubuntu derivatives, but is mostly aimed at Server installs that do not have a graphical interface.
DevOps
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