1st July 2018
The new EU data protection legislation, GDPR, mandates that every reasonable effort and technology is used to protect personal data. It even goes as far as specifying encryption. The open-source database MariaDB (a drop-in, compatible replacement for MySQL) has supported “encryption at rest” since version 10.1.
Use MariaDB encryption to satisify the GDPR recommendation of using encryption to protect your personal data.
DevOps
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1st July 2018
Florida is my go-to destination for a holiday. I’ve been several times since our honeymoon in 2012 and yet I still manage to find something new to see or do each time. When I fly into MCO airport and walk through the stunning atrium, I know I’m back in my happy place!
Disney, Reflections
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11th April 2018
Ubuntu Server is a Linux distribution that is ideally suited to
server workloads. For example: hosting websites and web applications.
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to install a LAMP stack –
that’s Apache, MariaDB (in place of MySQL) and PHP – on Ubuntu Server
using the latest available releases, and how to keep it up-to-date.
Software Development, DevOps
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9th April 2018
… but I’m OK with it.
A few days ago I sat in an airport lounge in Gatwick, waiting for our flight to Florida. I had finished a diet Coke
and was chewing on a piece of yoghurt-covered honeycomb (which was delicious, FYI) when I read a news article about Brexit that stunned me.
Reflections
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1st April 2018
There are several scenarios in which you may want to redirect all your website visitors to a single, primary domain in Apache.
I have recently implemented this on my own website, and I would like to share this Apache trick in this article.
Software Development, DevOps
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10th February 2018
It’s the year 2018 and it’s impossible for a software developer to have not heard about (or used) Github, or a variant like Bitbucket. Even self-hosted Git evangelist GitLab is a popular choice.
However, at the start of February 2018, I provisioned a new Cloud VPS to run my website and other apps. I also chose to migrate all my private Git repositories to it and cancelled my paid Github subscription.
Find out why in this article.
Software Development
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21st January 2018
2017 was an exciting year for the bigger players in the cloud hosting arena.
With several improvements launched by the big cloud hosting players, I thought it would be interesting to focus on a key metric of hosting providers that many overlook: network speed.
Most modern cloud hosting providers give your dedicated server or VPS a 100Mbps or 1Gbps network connection. But how close can you actually get to that speed?
Software Development
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27th November 2017
Content Delivery Networks were created for one reason: to speed up your websites and web applications. In this article, I explore how you can take advantage of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to improve your website performance for a small cost.
Software Development
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28th September 2017
Earlier this week, I couldn’t sleep. So I did what I normally do when I can’t sleep – I watch music videos on YouTube.
The first video in my “here’s what YouTube wants you to watch” list caught my eye. I immediately thought I had missed a piece of new music from one of my favourite artists of the last 10 years: Chris Daughtry.
Reflections, Entertainment
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12th September 2017
Did you know that you can capture a photo and upload it straight into your Blue Twilight photo gallery directly from your new iPhone or iPad device?
Software Development
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