And so the fun beings… After years building bespoke web sites using a variety of tools and hating every ‘site builder’ application I ever came across, I have now started playing with WordPress. Apparently a huge proportion of web sites (not just blogs) are now built on WordPress – so [...]
So, my first page which, I guess, should be a general ‘about me’ page. My full name is Andrew Stickland and I live in Southern England [no more on that nosy ] I have been in IT since the mid 80′s having picked up an interest in school with the [...]
Blatant advertisement here but it’s worth it… AgileSCM is a user-friendly, browser based Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution which integrates with Subversion, Git and Mercurial. The only real issue with Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) can be that Branching and Merging between coders can be a pain – AgileSCM [...]
Atlassian have today launched “Stash” offering ‘Git Repository Management for Enterprise Teams’. Essentially, Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) are great but (and it’s a big BUT), for business where security and control is required, putting your repository behind the firewall can cause issues for remote workers. Atlassian Stash addresses these [...]
The worst bit of hunting for a new job has, for me, been getting off the mailing lists, agency lists etc. It seems easy enough to get yourself ‘out there’ by posting your CV here, there and everywhere but there doesn’t seem to be a way of getting yourself of [...]
Basically, dear old microsoft have messed up -FilterHashTable in Powershell for anything less than Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 and there doesn’t seem to be a fix in the pipeline for this any time soon if at all. Essentially it doesn’t work and a command such as the following [...]
Backup, backup, backup!!!!! I hear it said and see it mentioned often enough but it is still something people ignore, forget about or simply don’t think about enough. No names need be mentioned but I have just picked up the tail end of a disaster which first started at the [...]
Only half (1 in 10) of the people in the world understand binary!
One of the greatest BBQ (or other) recipes ever… I shameless plagiarised this form a friends blog (here) – but then, he stole it from somewhere else… The ingredients: You need an insane amount of: Streaky Bacon Sausage Meat BBQ Sauce BBQ Rub/Powder Firstly you make a lattice of bacon, [...]
And so the fun beings… After years building bespoke web sites using a variety of tools and hating every ‘site builder’ application I ever came across, I have now started playing with WordPress. Apparently a huge proportion of web sites (not just blogs) are now built on WordPress – so [...]
Blatant advertisement here but it’s worth it… AgileSCM is a user-friendly, browser based Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution which integrates with Subversion, Git and Mercurial. The only real issue with Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) can be that Branching and Merging between coders can be a pain – AgileSCM [...]
Atlassian have today launched “Stash” offering ‘Git Repository Management for Enterprise Teams’. Essentially, Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) are great but (and it’s a big BUT), for business where security and control is required, putting your repository behind the firewall can cause issues for remote workers. Atlassian Stash addresses these [...]
The worst bit of hunting for a new job has, for me, been getting off the mailing lists, agency lists etc. It seems easy enough to get yourself ‘out there’ by posting your CV here, there and everywhere but there doesn’t seem to be a way of getting yourself of [...]
Basically, dear old microsoft have messed up -FilterHashTable in Powershell for anything less than Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 and there doesn’t seem to be a fix in the pipeline for this any time soon if at all. Essentially it doesn’t work and a command such as the following [...]
Backup, backup, backup!!!!! I hear it said and see it mentioned often enough but it is still something people ignore, forget about or simply don’t think about enough. No names need be mentioned but I have just picked up the tail end of a disaster which first started at the [...]
Only half (1 in 10) of the people in the world understand binary!
One of the greatest BBQ (or other) recipes ever… I shameless plagiarised this form a friends blog (here) – but then, he stole it from somewhere else… The ingredients: You need an insane amount of: Streaky Bacon Sausage Meat BBQ Sauce BBQ Rub/Powder Firstly you make a lattice of bacon, [...]
And so the fun beings… After years building bespoke web sites using a variety of tools and hating every ‘site builder’ application I ever came across, I have now started playing with WordPress. Apparently a huge proportion of web sites (not just blogs) are now built on WordPress – so [...]
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