Posted in Adventures and Courses on October 16, 2010
Mention the name Ben Law to most people and they'll say "Who?". However if you follow that up by describing a certain episode of Grand Designs where a woodsman, permaculturist & author
Posted in Development on June 15, 2012
ALT+Space is your friend Mention Quicksilver and the more techie OSX users out there will wax lyrical about its ease of use and its powerful features. They have a point! Windows has always been a bit
Posted in Development, php on May 9, 2013
The other day my dev server completely died, this was rather inconvenient to say the least. 24 hrs later and my new (excellent, very quiet, powerful but only consuming 150w) HP 54L Proliant
Posted in Development, php on May 9, 2013
The other day my dev server completely died, this was rather inconvenient to say the least. 24 hrs later and my new (excellent, very quiet, powerful but only consuming 150w) HP 54L Proliant
Posted in Articles on February 19, 2014
Image by Patrick Breitenbach You know how some people jump out of perfectly good airplanes, climb mountains or cuddle a tarantula to confront their fears? Well I launched a podcast to confront mine
Posted in Development on April 30, 2014
Recently Microsoft released an API for my brain indexer favourite tool, OneNote. To say I'm excited by the opportunities presented with this API, especially when it has some more features, would be
Posted in Development on July 10, 2014
I found a handy plugin this weekend for keeping my PHP development Vagrant VM VirtualBox guest additions in sync: vagrant-vbguest vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest Every time you do a vagrant up
Posted in Development on September 25, 2014
There's a bash exploit doing the rounds that is drop-everything serious. The short version is that it is: related to how environment variables are processed: trailing code in function definitions was
Posted in Articles, Featured on October 19, 2014
I had an epiphany this week. In fact it's been a month or two of epiphanies but this one was particularly important. Embarassingly it's one of those 'No Shit Sherlock' realisations, the ones we all
Posted in Articles on December 28, 2014
Truth be told I'm really glad to be seeing the back of 2014; let's just say it has been a challenging year. I appear to have gotten through it mostly intact, though, and I am looking forward to 2015