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Python – A Django experience
For a little while The team here have been looking at rapid development of web applications and have been trying python with Django to deliver some nice projects in a short period of time and with good...
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Angular.js – starting something new
Why not!? Last week I played with Python / Django the natural extension of this was to not do python but to look at using something like Angular and bootstrap, the main reason for this is that just...
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When in doubt, use more JavaScript
Oh, gawd, why Over the last couple of weeks i’ve been playing with some new technology, not to any depth but just enough to get a feel for it. The week before last it was all Python & Django...
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JavaScript and me
Where did it all go wrong It must have been about 10 years ago when I first did some JavaScript and at the time I thought it was pretty good, I only used it on and off between then and university but...
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A day of Javascript
Urghh! Today I’ve been trying, trying really hard to apply some of that JavaScript knowledge to a simple problem, something that if I was doing it in HTML and PHP would have taken about an hour, and...
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Pain and suffering with AngularJS
What a week! Over the last month or so I have been steadily learning Javascript, Bootstrap, NodeJS and AngularJS well last week added to that mix was D3JS. I must have got to the end of my tether every...
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To IDE or not
What’s in an IDE! Over the last 15 years or so I have used a few IDE’s for programming “proper” applications in Pascal, Delphie, C/C++ or Java but since moving to the darker side of computing, the...
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Time for an idea
Why not It’s been a while since I’ve thrown myself into an idea and tried to come out the other side, so I’ve spent the last couple of days just thinking about what’s missing. It doesn’t take much to...
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Yummy, Jira Jelly Escalations
Who doesn’t like Jelly? At work we have some SOC2 fun stuff to attend to, one of the areas that I’m looking at is incident management, we’ve been doing incident management and analysis of incidents for...
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Bash-off – a way to relieve your self
Bash off! In our team at work we have this concept which we call a “Bash off” the idea is simple. Take something that you could do very simply in bash in several steps with manual fudging in the middle...
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Cut down, deliver early and often
Deliver all the things There’s idealistic people in the world and that’s fine (thanks for reading by the way :) ), and there’s pragmatic people, I want to go through how you can provide solutions that...
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Configuration management alone is not the answer
Everything in one place Normally when businesses start out building s product, especially those that don’t have the pre-existing knowledge of configuration management, tend to just throw the config on...
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Doing it the hard way
Lets make it really complicated Over the last two weeks i’ve been playing with some open source project that has a bit of a kick starter going to fund their idea. I came across it through my boss who...
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A week in the Valley
While out and about… Over the last week I’ve been out in the bay area meeting with an important client talking about their needs and how we’re going to make things better for them and for us, all in...
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What challenges you?
Over the last few weeks I have been wondering what most people find challenging in the “modern” IT world. There’s been a recent upsurge in tools and technology that address most problems which only...
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Let’s Chat
It’s good to talk Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing with some forum based technology, trying to find an ideal platform to take and add lots of modifications too to integrate fully with another...
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Helping others
A while back I was volunteered to help our finance team customise their accounting system which finally I’ve got to the end, or at lest the end is now in sight. It was an interesting situation, a few...
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Sinatra – partial templates
Singing a different song Firstly apologies, it’s been over a month since my last blog post but unfortunately with holidays, illness and change of jobs I’ve been struggling to find any time to write...
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Deploying Sinatra based apps to Heroku, a beginners guide
A bit of background So last week, I was triumphant, I conquered an almighty task, I managed to migrate my companies website from a static site to a Sinatra backed site using partial templates. I...
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Releasing your first Devops Application
First the worry When it comes to releasing the first version of an application it’s always worth weighing up the constraints of your environment and the time frame in which the task was delivered...
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