Blog Entries
Mar 21st 2021
Ubuntu Dev Environment Setup
So as mentioned in my previous blog entry, i'm moving away from my iMac to a Linux Dev environment, it will cost me far to much to upgrade the iMac for little gain. So with this post i'm going to outline my steps to installing a Dev Environment on Ubuntu 20.04 and basic setup and plugins for Visual...
By Mike Jones
Site Dev
9 minutes
Mar 18th 2021
System76 - Pop!_OS
Over the last few months I've slowly started moving away from my iMac for dev work as its a little shabby on its RAM and i don't have the cash to fork out a few hundred quid to upgrade an old iMac. So what to do? well i happen to have an old PC with 16gb of RAM in it...i used to use it as a NAS but...
By Mike Jones
Site Dev
3 minutes
Mar 17th 2021
Wicked Templates
As you can see, the site has had a bit of an overhaul.... gone has the white template with not really anything "fun" about it to show, and replaced with this awesome Cyber Punk style theme. I cant take the credit for the design piece though, that gets put directly at the feet of Mike Andreuzza and...
By Mike Jones
Site Dev
1 minute
Nov 06th 2020
DB Design
Over the last year and a bit I've been changing from a support based role to a development based role and I'm now at the stage where i'm learning to build my apps from scratch. So far the hardest thing i have come across in relation to the whole process is database design... i have my brief of what...
By Mike Jones
Site Dev
2 minutes
Oct 21st 2020
Photography & Me
When i talk about the first camera its actually about the third camera i owned, my wife 2 at best were horrendous and don't need a mention here... on was literally a Webcam which could double up as a 2MP camera and some beast my mate picked up which used floppy disks for storage.... yes you read tha...
By Mike Jones
Site Dev
4 minutes
Oct 11th 2020
SSL Troubles!
Let me start by saying SSL is a good thing and its all ways something i make sure a site has when i'm on it... especially if i'm going to purchase something. But Christ! what a pain in the ass it was to setup! when i read up about how to configure it all, it seemed simple enough... i just needed to...
By Mike Jones
Site Dev
3 minutes